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| 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 8-core GPU, and a sky 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/MacOS, r/gadgets, r/hardware, r/mac, and r/apple
| 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/apple, r/MacOS, r/LocalLLM, r/MacStudio, r/mac, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/StableDiffusion
| 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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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
After announcing the M3 Ultra, Apple says not every M chip generation will get an Ultra tier, suggesting the company will skip the M4 Ultra — It could explain why we're getting an M3 Ultra this deep into the M4 rollout. — Apple's first Mac Studio refresh in nearly two years is a welcome update …
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X: @markgurman, @benbajarin, and @vadimyuryev
Forums: r/apple, r/mac, r/MacOS, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Jack Greenberg / YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube debuts an $8/month Premium Lite tier in the US, offering most videos ad-free and music with ads, 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 …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out an experimental AI Mode in Google Search, designed to let users ask complex, multi-part questions, to Google One AI Premium subscribers — Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI's ChatGPT Search.
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Forums: r/Bard and r/singularity
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are relaunching Digg, after acquiring the site from Money Group for an undisclosed sum — 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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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The DOJ charges 12 Chinese nationals, including PRC staff, alleging an espionage campaign hit US state and federal agencies, like the Treasury, and other orgs — The Justice Department claims 10 alleged hackers and two eChinese government officials took part in a wave of cyberattacks around …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Discord is in early talks with bankers about a potential IPO that could come as soon as in 2025; Discord was last valued by investors in 2021 at ~$15B — The app has become a mainstay of the video game community and young internet users. — Discord, the social chat app popular …
More: The Information and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI told some investors about plans for new agents: $2,000/month for knowledge work, a $10K/month for coding, and $20K/month for PhD-level research — OpenAI is betting big on ChatGPT, which is generating at least $4 billion in annualized revenue.
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| 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. Bluesky: @dabelcs, @glenberseth, @jmac-ai, and @gioramponi
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Forums: r/MachineLearning, r/programming, and r/uAlberta
| Financial Times: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Italy is having growing doubts about closing a €1.5B deal with SpaceX for Starlink in light of the US' pullback from commitments to European security — The Italian government is having growing doubts about closing a €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) deal with Elon Musk's Starlink …
More: The Information, Reuters, and Reuters
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says China-linked hacking group Silk Typhoon was targeting remote management tools and cloud apps to steal data keys in the US and abroad in late 2024 — - ‘Silk Typhoon’ group previously blamed in Treasury breach — Attackers hunting for details on US policy, investigations| 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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Avride, a Yandex spinoff, partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for ride hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs in 2025 — The autonomous vehicle operator is aiming to build 100 driverless Ioniq 5s this year.
More: Avride, NewsBytes, USA Today, PYMNTS.com, and TechCrunch
X: @modestproposal1, @_balaji_km, @alexroy144, @jason, @natlungfy, @avrideai, and @jason. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Marvell reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.8B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue of ~$1.88B, below the highest $2B est.; MRVL drops 13%+ after hours — Marvell Technology Inc. declined in late trading after delivering a revenue forecast that fell short of the highest estimates … | Mahmoud Itani / Macworld: |
Apple introduces AI-generated summaries of app reviews in the App Store, first available in the US in English, with the latest iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 betas — Another Apple Intelligence feature is added to the rolling list. — Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 18.4 beta 2 … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
The US DOD awards Scale AI a 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: The Register, The Hill, DefenseScoop, Breaking Defense, UPI, and Washington Post
| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
Amazon announces an “AI-aided dubbing” pilot program on Prime Video, starting with dubbing in English and Latin American Spanish on 12 movies and series — To start, AI dubbing will only occur in English and Latin American Spanish. — In an effort to make movies and TV shows …
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, BGR, Digital Trends, Reuters, and Quartz
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Bolt says Ryan Breslow has been reinstated as CEO with the board's “unanimous approval”; Justin Grooms, the interim CEO since March 2024, is now the president — Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday.| Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
Coinbase revives its ambition to bring security tokens, “crypto assets that represent a traditional security”, to the US, amid a relaxed regulatory environment — - Coinbase Chief Financial Officer Alesia Haas expressed optimism about renewed discussions with the SEC's crypto task force …
More: Blockchain.News, Salon, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and ZyCrypto
| Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt: |
| Wired: |
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