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Sources: Nvidia told Microsoft, and another large cloud provider, that its new Blackwell AI chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws — Nvidia's upcoming artificial intelligence chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws …
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Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech — In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.
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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled and tells users to switch to other ad blockers before deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions — Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.
More: GitHub, Neowin, NewsBytes, and Dexerto
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Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms — - Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI
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The US DOJ sues TikTok, saying it collected children's data without parents' permission, knowingly let users under the age of 13 create accounts, and more — The Justice Department said that TikTok illegally collected children's data and knowingly allowed users under the age of 13 to create accounts.
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Threads: @drewharwell. Mastodon: @w7voa@journa.host. X: @moonalice, @linakhanftc, @justinbrookman, and @megangra
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How AI-formulated bioweapons became a security obsession inside Washington, DC, forcing officials to take tech advances in weaponizing disease seriously — A stunt got White House officials to take technological advances in weaponizing disease seriously. — Rocco Casagrande entered …
Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. X: @ggronvall and @donatopmancini
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Josh Noble / Financial Times: |
How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation — NBC and Eurosport among those using ‘creators’ to spur interest and reach wider audiences — Sandra Kwon's life …
LinkedIn: Rob Pilgrim
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Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes — Technology stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in their investments in artificial intelligence| Eric Platt / Financial Times: |
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B — Cash holdings hit a record high as billionaire investor dumps $76bn of stocks — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has slashed …
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X: @conorsen, @merrux, @schuldensuehner, @aravsrinivas, @divestech, @conorsen, and @trungtphan
Forums: r/houstonwade and r/StockMarket
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 review: all-day battery, seven years of updates, and widgets for the outer screen are helpful but hard to run full apps — It's not the most fun, but reliability goes a long way. … Look, fun is fun and all, but sometimes boring is better.
More: The Indian Express, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, SamMobile, Tech Advisor, Android Headlines, and Digital Trends
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Data breach notifications show personal data of at least 1.43M individuals was compromised in US pharmaceutical giant Cencora's February data breach — Cencora has so far notified over a million people around the U.S. that their personal and protected health information was compromised …
More: BleepingComputer, The Record, Reuters, Security Affairs, SC Media, and Cybernews.com
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A profile of Huawei, which has expanded into new businesses, built out its supply chain, and boosted profit, thanks to billions of dollars in Beijing support — The Chinese telecom giant struggled at first under U.S. sanctions—then Beijing stepped in
X: @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, and @jchengwsj. LinkedIn: Liza Lin. Forums: Hacker News
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