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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Nvidia updates the DGX Station, begins taking reservations for the DGX Spark box, formerly Project Digits, and unveils the RTX PRO workstation and server GPUs — GTC After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable …
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Forums: r/gadgets, r/hardware, r/GeForceNOW, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia unveils Blackwell Ultra, a family of AI chips shipping in 2025, and Vera Rubin, its next-gen chip featuring Nvidia's first custom CPU, slated for H2 2026 — Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday.
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Forums: r/hardware, r/NVDA_Stock, and Slashdot
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Nvidia announces Dynamo, an “operating system of the AI factory” that it says can boost token output by 30x per GPU when running DeepSeek-R1 on a large cluster — Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra, which aims to boost training and test time inference, as the GPU giant makes the case …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
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| New York Times: |
Trump fires the two Democratic members of the FTC, threatening the independence of the regulator in a decision that is likely to face a legal challenge — Roberts Criticizes Calls for Judge's Impeachment After Trump's Statement — Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare public statement …
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Forums: r/Law_and_Politics, r/politics, r/fednews, r/technology, and r/politics
| Makena Kelly / Wired: |
Current and former FTC staff say the FTC removed 300+ Biden era business guidance blog posts, including information on AI consumer protection and Big Tech suits — Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.
More: Benzinga, The Information, Gizmodo, Engadget, and TechCrunch
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/fednews, r/politics, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Sources: the real closer for Wiz and Google executives was President Trump's election, which brought with it the prospect of a friendlier antitrust review — Less than a year after Google's plans to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz fell apart, executives were able to ink a deal …
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| The Verge: |
Alphabet acquires NYC-based cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B cash, its largest acquisition yet, pending approval; antitrust fears stalled a $23B deal in 2024 — The acquisition is Alphabet's biggest yet, after a $23 billion takeover attempt stalled last year.
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LinkedIn: Teddie Wardi, Dan Glass, Aubrey Chambers, Andy Price, James Berthoty, Pramod Gosavi, Sid Trivedi, and Frank McGovern
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/StockMarket, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: investors valued X at $44B in a secondary deal earlier this month; X posted ~$1.2B in adjusted EBITDA in 2024 and is raising $2B in a primary round — Social media site was valued at less than $10bn in September — Social media site X's valuation has soared back to $44bn …
More: The Information. Threads: @carnage4life. X: @pitdesi. Forums: r/Economics and r/WallStreetbetsELITE
| Bloomberg.com: |
Community Notes, on X and now rolling out on Meta's services, fall short of stopping misinformation; removing rewards for posting misinformation would help more — The crowdsourced fact-checking system, which Meta adopted from X, is falling well short of stopping the spread of misinformation.
More: Social Media Today and Bloomberg
| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Flashpoint: 3.2B credentials were stolen from organizations in 2024, up 33% YoY, of which 2.1B were compromised using info-stealing malware infecting 23M hosts — Inexpensive information-stealing malware surged in 2024, infecting 23 million hosts, according to Flashpoint. — Learn more.
More: Flashpoint, Infosecurity, Channel Futures, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, and Forbes
| Financial Times: |
Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged civil servants in charge of the $42B rural broadband program to increase the project's use of Starlink — Commerce secretary urges officials to consider Trump adviser's satellite connection for rural households| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the man Rippling has accused of feeding stolen customer and employee info to Deel is Keith O'Brien, a global payroll-compliance manager in Dublin — Rippling manager allegedly fed stolen customer and employee information to company's rival — Keith O'Brien used to appear … | Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
A source details how Google built the Pixel 10's Tensor G5 chip without Samsung's help, using in-house and off-the-shelf IP, and partnering with Arm and others — The Tensor G5 won't be all that different from the previous generations. — • — • — • — TL;DR| June Yoon / Financial Times: |
Chinese firms like Alibaba, Baidu and DeepSeek are open sourcing AI models to bypass US curbs, decentralize development, and tap global talent for refinement — The pace of Beijing's open source push has been relentless — Retaliation seemed certain. When the US tightened its grip … | Jem Aswad / Variety: |
RIAA: US paid music streaming subscriptions hit 100M in 2024; streaming revenue grew 4% YoY to $14.9B; revenue from ad-supported services fell 2% to $1.8B — For the first time, paid streaming subscriptions hit the 100 million mark in the U.S. last year, while vinyl sales continued their nearly … | Counterpoint Research: |
Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew — - Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, marking their third consecutive year of declines due to the continued weak consumer demand.
More: Above Avalon and Moneycontrol
| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Microsoft partners with Swiss startup Inait to deploy an AI model that simulates mammal brain reasoning to advance fields like financial trading and robotics — New artificial intelligence learns from real-world experience rather than pre-existing data — Microsoft has joined forces … Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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Sandbox testing: Create Mail Agents in sandbox mode — Email is considered the backbone for any organization's communication. That's even more true for transactional emails, which are operation-critical for any business.
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