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Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed Jarvis, which takes over a user's web browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, in December — Google is developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person's web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research …
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Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
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| Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law: |
A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages — Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1377) — Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1378) — Search by Law Firm Search by Topic Search by Company
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has made it harder in recent weeks for foreign companies, particularly chip makers, to buy such materials in China — Already the dominant producer of rare minerals, Beijing is using export restrictions and its power over state-owned companies to further control access.
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| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
An interview with Humane co-founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri on dealing with the reaction to the AI Pin, plans to license its CosmOS, and more — It's Saturday in South Park. Kids are squealing. A man shadowboxes behind me. Sitting across from me on a not-so-clean bench … | Bloomberg: |
At a TSMC event, founder Morris Chang said the company will soon face its “most severe” challenges in driving growth as free trade of semiconductors falters — - CEO says confident TSMC will still expand tech leadership — Washington has been limiting China's access to advanced chips| Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC halted shipments to Chinese chip designer Sophgo, which was co-founded by Bitmain's Micree Zhan, after TSMC chips were found on Huawei AI chips — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (2330.TW) suspended shipments to China-based chip designer Sophgo after a chip …
More: The Information, South China Morning Post, SOPHGO, CoinGape, TheMinerMag, Cryptopolitan, and Huawei Central
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Forums: r/fucktheccp and r/worldnews
| Ned Beauman / Financial Times: |
A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack — Tech workers cannot resist the cult video game that asks players to single-handedly restage the industrial revolution
More: Gamereactor UK, Comic Book, PC Gamer, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Forums: Hacker News and r/neoliberal
| Leo Lewis / Financial Times: |
Japan has too many startups that IPO too early amid a lack of late-stage funding, hurting unicorn ambitions; data: funding is set to fall ~33% from 2022 to 2024 — The country urgently needs a vibrant business pipeline to replace the unicorn's unambitious cousin
More: Reuters
| David Morris / Bloomberg: |
Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving it a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement — The Guangzhou-based company's ADS pared initial gains to close at $16.55 on Friday in New York, above the IPO price of $15.50 apiece.
More: WeRide Inc., Nikkei Asia, Seeking Alpha, The Robot Report, Reuters, Benzinga, Self Drive News, Tech Startups, PYMNTS.com, Cautious Optimism, and Gulf News. X: @leixing77
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is with Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff. Salesforce is one of the most important companies in tech history.
More: GeekWire, Forbes, Platformonomics, Fortune, and Benzinga
X: @benioff, @benioff, @benioff, @justincormack, @0xkarmatic, and @benioff. LinkedIn: Brendan Keeler
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less than the reported peak production capacity, implying sales are almost in line with Apple's expectations — Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — here's Techmeme's roundup of summaries and regurgitations) …
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