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X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images and has few restrictions; it isn't clear if xAI trained Aurora itself — X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
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Sources: the US has approved the export of advanced AI chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the UAE as part of the company's partnership with G42 — - Lawmakers have raised concerns over the partnership, saying there is a risk it could open up a back door for China to access the advanced technology.| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Brain Krebs, who in the past 20 years has probed and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged hackers of Snowflake clients — In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom shelves plans to work directly with the top 2,000 VMware customers, focusing on just 500 and giving 1,500 back to partners as a way to stem migrations — Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations - which Dell says are on the cards
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The Intel Foundry Technology Research team announces breakthroughs in interconnect scaling, gate-all-around transistors, and packaging — Smaller, faster, better. — Today, the Intel Foundry Technology Research team announced technology breakthroughs in 2D transistor technology using … | Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance has taken an early lead in the generative AI race in China by poaching top talent from rivals and becoming Nvidia's biggest buyer in China — Beijing-based company has lured top AI talent from local rivals while becoming China's biggest buyer of Nvidia chips| Alicia Diaz / Bloomberg: |
Linda Yaccarino says X worked with the authors of the Kids Online Safety Act to make changes to protect freedom of speech and urges the House to pass the bill — - Senate passed bill in a tech privacy package in July — Changes to bill safeguard free speech, lawmakers say
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Meta says there are no plans to release its AI-powered coding tool Metamate externally; Metamate lacks the more autonomous, agent-like features of rivals' tools — Social media group targets burgeoning artificial intelligence sector as it develops ‘Metamate’ workplace assistant| The Guardian: |
An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M — FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
More: Balloon Juice and The Register
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| Yongchang Chin / Bloomberg: |
Ant President Cyril Han will succeed Eric Jing as CEO on March 1; Jing will remain company chairman and Han, who is also the CFO, will continue reporting to him — Han will succeed Eric Jing as CEO on March 1 and be responsible for all business segments and daily management …
More: South China Morning Post and Reuters
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A White House official says that the US believes China-linked Salt Typhoon hackers targeted and recorded the phone calls of “very senior” US political figures — The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted … | Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
David Sacks, who called OpenAI a “piranha for-profit company”, becoming AI czar comes at a delicate moment for OpenAI as it transitions to a for-profit — Sam Altman may be playing Santa with OpenAI's “12 days of shipmas” - a series of splashy product releases that kicked off Thursday … Sponsor Posts
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