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October 10, 2024, 11:25 PM

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD launches its Instinct MI325X GPU to compete with Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell chips and says production will start in 2024, but doesn't disclose its pricing  —  AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia's data center graphics processors, known as GPUs.
Tobias Mann / The Register:
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?
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store  —  Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox mobile app on Android to allow US users to purchase and then play Xbox games on their mobile devices next month.
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
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.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at the possible outcomes of the Google Search antitrust trial, including the very likely scenario that Google's default search engine deals won't survive  —  In August, a federal judge ruled that Google had illegally maintained its monopoly in search and search text advertising.
Financial Times:
BBC:
The US and the UK announce an agreement to keep children safer online, including plans to set up an online safety working group to share evidence and expertise  —  The argument over smartphones in schools has been “won”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC …
CNBC:
Sources detail Meta's work on an Orion consumer version that could be built within two years, plans to bring Orion wristband tech to its other devices, and more  —  When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the occasion to show the world his vision …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the past year; it launched the marketplace in October 2021  —  More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice …
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Four of Tesla's direct reports to Elon Musk, including the CIO and the global vehicle automation and safety policy lead, resigned before Tesla's robotaxi event  —  - Four Tesla execs announced in the past week that they were leaving or had already left the company.
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” as part of an investigation into crypto price manipulation  —  The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed Wednesday.
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 …
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
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 …
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
PayPal formally launches PayPal Ads, which looks to help US marketers tap into data about transactions across PayPal's platforms, including Venmo and Honey  —  - PayPal is set to launch an ads business, starting in the US.  — The company intends to offer ads across its own properties, as well as retailers.
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 …

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