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October 10, 2024, 7:35 PM

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD launches the Instinct MI325X GPUs to compete with Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell chips, and plans to start production before the end of 2024  —  AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia's data center graphics processors, known as GPUs.
Gavin Bonshor / The Register:
Intel unveils its Arrow Lake desktop processors, with an NPU, better power efficiency at higher clock speeds, and 2X the graphics performance vs. its 14th Gen  —  New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down?
Jack Kubinec / Blockworks:
Stripe reintegrates crypto payments in the US, letting users pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, after disabling the feature in 2018  —  Customers can pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, while US-based merchants are paid in dollars
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” to investigate price manipulation in crypto markets  —  The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed Wednesday.
Decrypt:
Uniswap Labs unveils Unichain, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built on Optimism tech, to enable faster, cheaper transactions and better liquidity across chains  —  Uniswap will launch an Ethereum layer-2 network called Unichain in an effort to cut fees, boost liquidity, and more.
Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal:
Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou and says Foxconn said it didn't suffer a financial loss tied to their actions  —  Taiwan says investor confidence may be damaged after four Taiwanese are held  —  TAIPEI—Four Taiwanese employees …
Bloomberg:
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services  —  Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
BBC:
The US and UK announce a joint agreement aimed at keeping children safer online, including the setting up of an online safety working group to share expertise  —  The argument over smartphones in schools has been “won”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC …
David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY:
Automattic demanding an 8% cut of WP Engine's revenue is a wanton violation of open source ideals, and the damage to open source may extend far beyond WordPress  —  Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not “giving back enough” to WordPress is a wanton violation …
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Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Four of Musk's Tesla direct reports, including its CIO and global vehicle automation and safety policy lead, recently resigned, ahead of Tesla's robotaxi event  —  - Four Tesla execs announced in the past week that they were leaving or had already left the company.
Financial Times:
Darktrace co-founder Poppy Gustafsson, who left last month ahead of the £4.3B takeover of the cybersecurity group, is appointed as the UK's investment minister  —  Appointment comes ahead of international investment summit  —  Darktrace co-founder Poppy Gustafsson has been appointed …
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
How Ryan Salame, an FTX executive who gave millions to GOP politicians, and Michelle Bond, who ran for Congress, went from crypto power couple to facing prison  —  Ryan Salame, an FTX executive, and Michelle Bond, a crypto policy advocate, were once a Washington power couple.  Now they both face prison time.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Chinese researchers debut AI model Pyramid Flow, which makes a five-second, 384p video in 56 seconds, built using a new technique called pyramidal flow matching  —  The number of AI video generation models continues to grow with a new one, Pyramid Flow, launching this week …
Bloomberg:
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term ended in September 2024, as a bipartisan club of tech figures and VCs, including Reid Hoffman, call for her ouster  —  Biden's FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy.
Tobias Mann / The Register:
AMD launches the 5th Gen Epyc Turin data center chips, with up to 192 cores and clock speeds up to 5GHz, boasting double-digit gains in instructions per clock  —  Just not on the same chip, of course  —  Intel's 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired …

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