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Procreate CEO James Cuda says the iPad illustration startup is “not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products”, drawing praise from creatives — Many Procreate users can breathe a sigh of relief now that the popular iPad illustration app has taken a definitive stance against generative AI.
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
AMD agrees to buy New Jersey-based ZT Systems, founded in 1994 to design and make servers, server racks, and other infrastructure, for $4.9B, closing in H1 2025 — ZT Systems produces servers, other equipment used in data centers for artificial intelligence
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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi launches a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB of RAM for $50, alongside the existing 4GB model for $60 and 8GB for $80, and may release a future 1GB model — Will a $50 Raspberry Pi 5 2GB be enough? — The Raspberry Pi 5 is still the single board computer against which all others are measured …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's work on its in-house modem chip, which may debut in select iPhones in 2025 to replace Qualcomm's chip, with a full rollout taking a few years — Apple's move to drop Qualcomm modem chips won't have a payoff at the outset, but it could set the stage for bigger things later.
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Source: GM is cutting over 1,000 software engineers, including 600+ in Michigan, as the automaker moves to lean up its software and services organization — - Job reductions follow company push to bolster digital prowess — Company has faced technology glitches in Blazer, Lyriq models
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| Washington Post: |
Girls In Tech, Women Who Code, and other groups that aimed to diversify Silicon Valley are closing or rebranding to stay afloat, as critics attack DEI efforts — Groups like Girls In Tech and Women Who Code promised to attract women and people of color to the tech industry.| Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: |
How Worldcoin is building its World ID identity system, trying to counter government and privacy advocates' concerns about its iris scanning and data processing — More than a dozen jurisdictions have either suspended the project's operations or looked into its data processing
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| Benedict Evans: |
What comes after Google's antitrust loss is not clear, besides the court ordering Google to stop or reduce its TAC payments; Apple could build a search engine — A search engine is a vast mechanical Turk - a reinforcement learning engine that uses human activity to understand the web.| Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: |
Since 2018, Roblox has grown rapidly and consistently and now has an estimated average of 80M+ daily and 380M+ monthly users, over 2x that of Steam or Minecraft — Everyone knows Roblox is huge. But as COVID receded into memory, Roblox shifted from “new” to “familiar,” …
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Carta says 254 of its VC-backed clients went bust in Q1 2024 and the startup bankruptcy rate is over 7x that of 2019, as funds from the 2021-2022 boom run out — Private company shutdowns jump compared with last year despite AI funding frenzy, threatening millions of jobs at VC-backed firms| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
FOI documents: data center water consumption in Virginia, home to the world's largest cluster of data centers, hit 1.85B+ gallons in 2023, up from 1.13B in 2019 — Usage has increased by almost two-thirds since 2019 in the world's largest concentration of computing infrastructure
More: The Register and Cybernews.com
| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Arize AI: 56% of Fortune 500 companies cited AI as a “risk factor” in their recent annual reports, up from 9% in 2022; 86% of software firms cited AI as a risk — Study finds more than half of Fortune 500 groups cited new technology as a potential hazard in their latest annual reportsSponsor Posts
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