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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 …
More: The Decoder, 9to5Google, BNN Bloomberg, Türkiye Today, Reuters, The Verge, Benzinga, NewsBytes, Upstream Ag, and The Verge
Forums: Hacker News, r/Bard, and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI transforming the world much faster than the internet, Arm's global operations and China's role, geopolitics, and more — Rene Haas, the chief executive officer of Arm Holdings, says AI's impact will be ‘quite, quite dramatic’ and there's no holding back smart cars.| 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| 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
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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, TheMinerMag, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, and Huawei Central
X: @pstasiatech, @wublockchain, @yueqi_yang, @amir, and @wublockchain
Forums: r/fucktheccp and r/worldnews
| 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.
X: @martijnrasser and @alantonelson
| 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| 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 … | 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, and Platformonomics
X: @benioff, @benioff, @benioff, @justincormack, @0xkarmatic, and @benioff. LinkedIn: Brendan Keeler
| Associated Press: |
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.”
More: TechCrunch. Mastodon: @urlyman@mastodon.social, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @jonny@neuromatch.social, @Tribo@mastodon.social, and @purserj@aus.social. Bluesky: @mhwilliams.bsky.social
X: @dancow, @silvermanjacob, @brentweinberg, and @akwyz
LinkedIn: Sean Manion, Dr Hugh Harvey, Kobi Leins, and Sean Murray
Forums: r/disability, r/Health, r/artificial, r/technology, r/medicine, r/BetterOffline, and r/news
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Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal of $100M in 2024 political ad revenue, raising just $15M to date, mainly from GOP and Trump campaigns — Social media platform has raised a fraction of $100mn target and mainly from Trump and Republicans| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
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