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HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's Ai Pin business will be wound down, and Humane's team, including its founders, will join HP — - Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop working on February 28, when all customer data will be deleted, and it will refund some customers — Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin and selling out to HP. — AI hardware startup Humane has given its users just ten (10!) days notice that their Pins will be disconnected.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
xAI launches Grok-3 beta and Grok-3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning, trained on 200K GPUs, or “10x” more compute than Grok-2, for X Premium+ users — Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, late on Monday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, and unveiled new capabilities for the Grok iOS and web apps.
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| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
Grok-3 hands-on: its thinking capability feels state of the art and rivals OpenAI's o1 pro models, DeepSearch offers a blend of search and reasoning, and more — I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup that she's leading, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist — - “Instead of focusing solely on making fully autonomous AI systems, we are excited to build multimodal systems that work … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Intel shares close up 16.1% following a February 15 report that both Broadcom and TSMC are potentially weighing deals that could break the chipmaker in two — Intel shares rallied 16.1% on Tuesday following a Wall Street Journal report that both Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta says LlamaCon, its first developer conference dedicated to generative AI, will take place on April 29, and Meta Connect will be held on September 17 and 18 — Meta on Tuesday announced that it'll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its games unit to Saudi Arabia-controlled Scopely for ~$3.5B; the deal would include Pokémon Go and other mobile games — A deal could be announced in coming weeks. The price being discussed is about $3.5 billion, according to one of the people.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel's Altera unit — The private equity firm is thrashing out details of an investment in Altera, whose multi-use chips are primarily deployed in telecommunications networks, according to the people.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Starting Feb. 19, Meta will store Facebook Live broadcasts for 30 days instead of storing them indefinitely and will remove videos currently older than 30 days — Facebook announced on Tuesday that live videos will now only be stored on the social network for 30 days, after which they will be deleted.| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Arkham: FTX users with claims below $50K have started to receive funds via Kraken and BitGo, expected to total $1.2B; users with $50K+ claims will be paid in Q2 — What to know: Creditors with claims below $50,000 have started receiving payouts with 9% interest since November 2022.
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Google Play Books for iOS will now let users complete their e-book or audiobook purchase on the Google Play website, under Apple's “reader apps” exception — Google has gained permission to sell its e-books and audiobooks directly to customers through its iOS app, Google Play Books.| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources describe disputes at Google between Google Labs and Workspace before NotebookLM's launch and between Google Cloud and DeepMind over the pace of launches — Google scored a rare hit with an artificial intelligence-powered product last fall: NotebookLM, which helps people summarize documents … | José Adorno / BGR: |
Protector, an iOS app that offers on-demand personal security, including armed agents, debuts in NYC and LA; adviser Nikita Bier calls it “Uber with guns” — There's a new app on the App Store called Protector, which, as its advisor describes it, is “Uber with guns.”
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Amazon discontinues Inspire, which was launched in December 2022 as a TikTok-style feed in its app for discovering products — Amazon is shutting down “Inspire,” its TikTok-like, short-form video and photo feed that was previously available in its mobile app.
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| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Acer CEO Jason Chen says the company will “probably” raise US laptop prices by 10% “by default” from March 2025 due to Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports — Acer considers shifting manufacturing out of China as trade war hits consumers — This feature is available for registered users.
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