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Kif Leswing / CNBC: Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU -
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces NIM, a set of microservices designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments -
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Nvidia unveils Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, and Jetson Thor, a new computer designed specifically for humanoid robots -
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Nvidia unveils the Earth-2 platform, letting users create AI-powered climate simulations ranging from global atmospheric conditions to local weather phenomena -
Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt -
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Solana memecoin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have “burned” tokens set aside for an airdrop -
Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more -
Lex Fridman: Q&A with Sam Altman on the OpenAI board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more -
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Singapore-based online shopping rewards app ShopBack cuts 195 jobs, or 24% of its staff, to become self-sustainable; ShopBack raised a $200M Series E in 2022 -
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: At an EU DMA hearing, a Meta lawyer says the company has offered to cut its EU subscription fee from €9.99 to €5.99 per month after discussions with regulators -
Sean Hollister / The Verge: A look at Playtron, which raised a $10M seed to build a Linux-based, platform-agnostic gaming OS to replace Windows or SteamOS, starting with handheld consoles -
Bloomberg: Sources: senior DOJ officials plan to hold closed-door Senate briefings on March 19 and 20 to advance a TikTok divestiture, as opposed to an outright US ban -
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers, raised a $100M Series B led by Uber at a $750M valuation, up from $550M in August 2023 -
Casey Hall / Reuters: Source: Ant CEO and Chair Eric Jing says Han Xinyi will become Ant Group president and some units plan to set up their own boards to operate more independently -
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: Filing: Reddit says Nokia accused the company of infringing some of its patents, and is evaluating Nokia's claims, ahead of its planned IPO this week -
Kalkidan Yibeltal / BBC: Ethiopia's central bank says “a glitch” let Commercial Bank customers withdraw more cash than was in the account for hours; local media says $40M+ was withdrawn -
Richard Waters / Financial Times: On the first day of his trial, US prosecutors portray Mike Lynch as “a controlling, dominating, intimidating boss” and “driving force behind [a] massive fraud” -
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Unity's 2024 Gaming Report: the number of multiplatform games rose 40% since 2021, in-app ad revenue rose 26.7% YoY, 62% of studios are using AI, and more -
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Q&A with Lila Tretikov, who just joined NEA as a partner and head of AI strategy; Tretikov was previously Microsoft's deputy CTO and Wikimedia Foundation CEO -
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team -
Just Lunning / New York Times: Hollywood actors like Megan Fox, Idris Elba, and Keanu Reeves are leaping into video games, a once stigmatized medium now seen as a unique platform for stories -
Bloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$10.2B, above ~$10.1B est., net income up 50% YoY to ~$653M, and plans to diversify its business by launching EVs