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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
The Biden administration issues the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI, detailing how the Pentagon and intel agencies should use and protect AI — A national security memorandum detailed how agencies should streamline operations with artificial intelligence safely.
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LinkedIn: Stephanie Goutos, Adita Karkera, Ph.D., Dion Bregman, Anjana Rajan, Kemal Hawa, Matthew Quinn, and John E. Cummings
Forums: r/aiwars and r/technology
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities — Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
More: Apple Security Research, Apple, The Verge, PCMag, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, BleepingComputer, 9to5Mac, The Independent, SecurityWeek, and Apple on GitHub
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LinkedIn: Caleb Sima, Ícaro Magalhães, and Todd Dailey
Forums: r/apple, lobste.rs, and MacRumors Forums
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google will add an AI info section in the image details view of Google Photos, for images edited with tools like Magic Editor and Magic Eraser — There's no putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to generative AI forever shaking our trust in photos, but the tech industry … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says “we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning”; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs — Apple may not be doing a formal product event this October, but the company is teasing a “week” of Mac announcements starting Monday morning.
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| Ian Curran / The Irish Times: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn €310M over using personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted ads under GDPR, after a 2018 complaint — Penalty relates to social media platform's processing of its members' data for targeted advertising
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| Bluesky: |
Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads — Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we've shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
More: TechCrunch, Decrypt, Werd I/O, Engadget, Gizmodo, Tubefilter, The Verge, Tech Startups, and Social Media Today
Threads: @molly0xfff and @molly0xfff
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
EU's top court sides with Intel over a once-record €1.06B antitrust fine from 2009, ruling that regulators failed to prove it gave illegal rebates to PC makers — - Top court sides with chipmaker in landmark EU competition case — Separate appeal over a revised EU penalty is still ongoing| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to an iPhone's Home Screen using their own custom engine in the EU in iOS 18.2 beta 1 — Apple last year introduced the ability for third-party web browsers to add web apps to the iOS Home Screen, a feature that was previously exclusive to Safari.| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
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Forums: r/australia, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic partnership, sets a December 19 deadline; Google planned to invest $2B in 2023 and signed a cloud deal — Google's partnership with AI firm Anthropic is at risk of being derailed in the UK after the competition watchdog called … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude write and run JavaScript code, perform calculations, and analyze data from files, in preview — Anthropic's Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. — Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta debuts “quantized” versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek — Meta Platforms Inc. is striving to make its popular open-source large language models more accessible with the release of …
More: Meta, VentureBeat, and Decrypt
Threads: @zuck. X: @yampeleg, @jmrothberg, @arm, @thegenioo, @trawasthi_ai, @mediatek, @ronantech, @aiatmeta, @aiatmeta, @aiatmeta, and @vimalgorasiya. LinkedIn: Joseph Spisak
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and lobste.rs
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Source: TSMC's US division president said during a webinar that production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher than at similar facilities in Taiwan — - Production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher — The Phoenix plant began trial production earlier this year
More: The Information, Potomac Institute …, and Quartz
X: @zebulgar, @levie, @luke_metro, and @thestalwart
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| New York Times: |
Sources: in 2005, Intel CEO Paul Otellini proposed buying Nvidia for $20B, but the board resisted due to concerns over the price tag and integrating Nvidia — A photo illustration of a silicon chip, mounted in a picture frame, on a shelf with cobwebs around it. Kevin Van Aelst
More: New York Times, Quartz, Tom's Hardware, and TVNewsCheck
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Filing: Microsoft puts an “assessment of investing in bitcoin” as a voting item for its December 10 shareholder meeting; its board recommends voting against it — - Microsoft placed an “assessment in investing in bitcoin” on the voting ballot ahead of its 2024 annual shareholder meeting in early December.| Reuters: |
At an event in Mumbai, Nvidia announces tie-ups with Indian companies including Reliance Industries, and launches a 4B-parameter small language model for Hindi — Chip behemoth Nvidia expanded tie-ups on Thursday with India's big firms, such as Reliance Industries, and launched …
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| Financial Times: |
General Catalyst raised $8B, the most by a US VC since March 2022, and will put $4.5B in its core funds, $1.5B in creating startups, and $2B in other businesses — General Catalyst has raised $8bn, the largest amount by a US venture capital group in more than two years … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Goodreads' co-founder Otis Chandler launches Smashing, an AI-powered app that aims to create a community around web content and has an AI Questions feature — Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public.| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi unveils the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ in 13 and 26 TOPS versions in partnership with Hailo, after announcing branded SSDs, micro SD cards, and a bumper — Raspberry ‘AI’ — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
More: Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, How-To Geek, Neowin, Hackster.io, and The Verge
| Sara Ruberg / New York Times: |
As Kroger and Walmart roll out electronic shelf labels, US lawmakers worry that the tech could allow for dynamic pricing; both deny plans to add dynamic pricing — Some members of Congress have expressed concerns that stores will monitor customers and raise prices.| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
WiseTech Global co-founder Richard White steps down as CEO of Australia's largest listed tech company over allegations about bullying and his personal life — Billionaire Richard White steps down as WiseTech Global chief following 20% fall in company's sharesSponsor Posts
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