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October 11, 2024, 6:25 AM

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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:
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.
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.
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
Victoria Song / The Verge:
A review of Submerged, Apple's first scripted short film shot in Immersive Video for the Vision Pro: technologically impressive, but an isolating experience  —  I don't like submarines.  The idea of being trapped, several hundred feet underwater, in a narrow, creaking death trap?  No thanks.
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 …
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 …
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
A profile of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who has crafted a strategy to stop China from unseating the US as the world's tech superpower  —  China is racing to unseat the United States as the world's technological superpower.  Not if Jake Sullivan can help it.

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