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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple updates the Mac Studio with an M4 Max for $1,999+ and an M3 Ultra for $3,999+, with up to 32 cores, including 24 performance cores, shipping from March 12 — Two generations of Apple silicon, one computer. — After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio …
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/MacOS, r/MacStudio, r/apple, and r/mac
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Apple updates the $999+ 13" and $1,199+ 15" MacBook Air with an M4, offering a 10-core CPU and an 8-core GPU, and a blue color option, shipping from March 12 — Upgrades at a lower cost. I'll take it. … Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option …
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Apple debuts the M3 Ultra, built from two 3nm M3 Max chips, with Thunderbolt 5, an UltraFusion packaging architecture, an 80-core GPU, and up to 512GB of memory — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. … Apple has a new powerhouse computer ready to go.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT — Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
More: ACM and masslive.com
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| Financial Times: |
Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe deployment of AI, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice” — Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery
More: The Verge, Silicon Republic, The Decoder, New Scientist, Analytics India Magazine, BetaKit, Axios, Associated Press, Wired, and The Logic. Forums: Slashdot
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting an emotional connection to the voice assistant — In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
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Forums: Hacker News, brendaniribe on Hacker News, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A US judge denies Elon Musk's attempt to halt OpenAI's for-profit shift, as he failed to meet the burden of proof, but lets other aspects of the lawsuit proceed — A federal judge in California denied Elon Musk's effort to halt OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit entity, according to a filing on Tuesday.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg from Money Group for an undisclosed sum, to focus on “connection and humanity” online — Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
While addressing Congress, President Trump calls to “get rid” of the $52B CHIPS and Science Act and use the leftover amount to “reduce debt or any other reason” — President Donald Trump called for an end to a landmark $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that's spurred …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The US CFPB drops its lawsuit against Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, after suing them in December 2024 over fraud complaints — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dismissed its lawsuit against the operator of the Zelle payments network …
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| Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast: |
The Los Angeles Times removes Particle's AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut — An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.
More: Shelly Palmer, The Guardian, The Wrap, and SFGATE
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
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| Jack Greenberg / YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube launches Premium Lite, a $7.99/month pilot in the US with ad-free videos like gaming and news, and plans to launch in Thailand, Germany, and Australia — Today we'll begin expanding our Premium Lite pilot to users in the US. Premium Lite gives viewers a new, more affordable … | Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC NFTs, says the US SEC closed its investigation into the company without taking enforcement action, adding “NFTs are not securities” — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club … | The Information: |
CoreWeave acquires Weights & Biases, whose tools help developers build AI apps, sources say for ~$1.7B; Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25B in 2023 — CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies developing artificial intelligence, is in talks to acquire Weights & Biases …
More: CoreWeave, Benzinga, W&B, Maginative, TipRanks Financial, Analytics India Magazine, Reuters, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, and Verdict
X: @amir and @weights_biases
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Scale AI signs a US DOD prototype contract for “Thunderforge”, to use AI agents for planning and operations; a source says it is a multimillion-dollar deal — Scale AI on Wednesday announced a landmark deal with the Department of Defense that could be a turning point …
More: Washington Post and DefenseScoop
| Financial Times: |
Taiwan's government says it will assist with TSMC's $100B investment in the US, but will also do “gatekeeping” to keep the most advanced tech in Taiwan — Trump-Zelenskyy clash crystallises fears about whether a more volatile White House will back Taipei
More: Wired, ChinaTalk, The Guardian, Fast Company, TrendForce News, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/hardware, r/TrueReddit, r/politics, r/hardware, r/technology, and r/intelstock
| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more — This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google representatives asked DOJ officials in a meeting last week to back away from a push to break up the company, citing national security concerns — Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump's Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company …
More: Reuters, Adweek, PC Gamer, MediaPost, TechRadar, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, TipRanks Financial, PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Pit, and The Information
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
After Qualcomm unveiled its X85 modem, CEO Cristiano Amon says it creates a “huge delta” in performance over Apple and is “the first modem that has so much AI” — Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC its latest modem will create a big distance in performance versus Apple … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta brings its anti-scam facial recognition test to the UK “after engaging with regulators”, letting celebrities opt-in “to receive the celeb-bait protection” — Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition with an international test of two new tools …
More: Meta, WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, The Independent, The Standard, BitcoinWorld, and Macau Business
| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA clears Microsoft's $13B OpenAI investment in 2023, ending 14 months of uncertainty over the deal, but says “Microsoft did acquire material influence” — - The 2023 deal did not result in change of control over OpenAI — CMA's decision comes after 14 months of scrutiny of the tie-up| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says China-linked hacking group Silk Typhoon was targeting remote management tools and cloud apps in the US and abroad in late 2024 — - ‘Silk Typhoon’ group previously blamed in Treasury breach — Attackers hunting for details on US policy, investigations
More: Microsoft Security Blog
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: 16GB of VRAM, FSR 4, and lower power draw than prior Radeon cards, but no AMD reference design and they are bulky cards — Nvidia's dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market …
More: XDA Developers, Club386, HotHardware, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Engadget, IGN, IGN, IGN, TechRadar, Guru3D, PC Gamer, Phoronix, BabelTechReviews, TechSpot, Eurogamer.net, The Shortcut, PCGamesN, TechPowerUp, Game Rant, and StorageReview.com. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Indian SaaS hiring platform Darwinbox raised $140M co-led by KKR and Partners Group, taking its total funding to $270M; the startup had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 — Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration … Sponsor Posts
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