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| Safe Superintelligence Inc.: |
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence, an American company “with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence” — Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
As Nvidia passes Microsoft's market cap, John Chambers, who was Cisco's CEO when Cisco passed Microsoft in the dot-com boom, says the situation now is different — Chip maker passes Microsoft for top spot, just as John Chambers-led Cisco Systems did two decades ago. He says the situation now is different.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Nvidia's 591,078% rise since its IPO in 1999; long-time investors in Nvidia have had to stomach three annual collapses of 50% or more in the stock — - Company topped Microsoft in market cap after historic run — Computer gaming and data centers paved the way for AI success
More: The Independent, Watcher Guru, and The i Paper
| The Information: |
Sources detail how Jensen Huang and Nvidia are guarding against slowing chip sales, including offering more cloud services and designing custom server racks — Around Christmas last year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called a series of meetings with company executives to discuss a growing concern …
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| Wired: |
Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites — A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens a merger inquiry into HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks, setting an August 14 deadline to decide on opening a full investigation — - UK watchdog will decide if deal poses any competition concerns| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Framework partners with DeepComputing to build a RISC-V mainboard for its Laptop 13, set to become one of the first RISC-V laptops; price and release are TBC — What if your laptop didn't need a processor from an established brand like Intel or AMD? What if it didn't even rely on proprietary paid architectures like Arm and x86?
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| Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt: |
Consensys says the US SEC is “closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0” and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions” — Leading Ethereum developer Consensys announced late Tuesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and OpenAI step up staff vetting over Chinese espionage threats; Sequoia has also encouraged some portfolio companies to tighten staff vetting — Google, OpenAI and Sequoia Capital push to improve security practices following high-profile spying cases
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| Mike Masnick / The Daily Beast: |
The US surgeon general's call for social media warning labels seems to ignore evidence and may feed into a moral panic, similar to prior panics over video games — SCREEN BURN — Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy is wrong about the harmful effects of social media on kids …
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| Michael McGrady Jr / AVN Industry News: |
Pornhub parent Aylo tells local news outlets in Kentucky and Indiana that local IP addresses are set to be geo-blocked in mid-July due to age verification laws — A local affiliate of Spectrum News reports that the geo-block will enter force on July 10 before HB 278 enters force in mid-July 2024.| Wall Street Journal: |
On its Korean website, Samsung says its new Snapdragon-powered Galaxy Book 4 Edge is not compatible with or cannot install some Adobe apps, Fortnite, and more — Popular games, other software are found incompatible with model using Microsoft Windows and Qualcomm chip
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix plans to open two permanent in-person experience venues, in Dallas and near Philadelphia, in 2025, a continuation of its previous pop-ups — They're not exactly theme parks, but the new Netflix Houses — to open next year in King of Prussia, Pa., and Dallas — will feature a wide array …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers “privacy-preserving” ad tools, and how Anonym might interact with a user base that tends to block ads — Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes? — ANALYSIS Mozilla this week …
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| Reuters: |
Amazon plans to invest €10B to expand cloud and logistics in Germany, including €8.8B by 2026 on AWS, taking its total planned German investment to €17.8B — Amazon (AMZN.O) will invest 10 billion euros ($10.75 billion) as demand for its cloud services and retail goods …
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| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Huawei, which is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS, nears a deal with Tencent to exclude WeChat from revenue sharing — - Huawei will not charge Tencent for in-app transactions — Hundreds of millions in China use WeChat for payment, gaming
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions — CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.
More: Reclaim The Net, MEDIANAMA, TechSpot, Biometric Update, and Forbes
| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
VR game studio Another Axiom says Gorilla Tag passed $100M in revenue since its early 2021 launch, one of the most successful VR games ever, and has 3M MAUs — VR studio Another Axiom today announced that its breakout title, Gorilla Tag, has surpassed $100 million in revenue.
More: Game Developer, Another Axiom, MIXED Reality News, VentureBeat, and UploadVR
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia agrees to buy Shoreline, which helps automate fixing software problems, in a deal that values Shoreline at ~$100M; Shoreline has raised ~$57M — The deal was struck recently and values Shoreline at about $100 million, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private.
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