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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 — - Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces NIM, a microservices software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments — At its GTC conference, Nvidia today announced Nvidia NIM, a new software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia unveils Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, and Jetson Thor, a computer designed for testing humanoid robot software — It's tough to argue with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang when he notes, “Building foundation models for general humanoid robots … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users generate 3D video from a text or image prompt — Stability AI is growing its generative AI model portfolio today with the release of Stable Video 3D (SV3D).
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Solana memecoin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have mistakenly “burned” tokens set for an airdrop — “This is not a joke I really f****d up and im really sorry. Was a simple mindless misclick when I was in the process of burning the the lp," the developer said| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU DMA hearing: a Meta lawyer says Meta offered to cut its EU monthly subscription for Facebook and Instagram from €9.99 to €5.99 to address regulatory concerns — Meta Platforms (META.O) has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to 5.99 euros …
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| Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central: |
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, which lets up to six Steam users share their PC games, manage parental controls, and more, meant to replace Family Sharing — Share your Steam games with up to five others in a Steam Family. — What you need to know — Valve is introducing …
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| 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 — The former CEO of Cyanogen has a plan for a platform-agnostic gaming operating system.
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| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, GPT-4, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
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| Kalkidan Yibeltal / BBC: |
Ethiopia's central bank says “a glitch” let Commercial Bank clients withdraw more cash than was in their account for hours; local media says $40M+ was withdrawn — Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank is scrambling to recoup large sums of money withdrawn by customers after a “systems glitch”.
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| 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 — - DOJ wants senators to pass a bill forcing TikTok sale — Effort is part of broader DoJ push on data-security measures
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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Reddit says Nokia on March 18 accused the company of infringing some of its patents, and is evaluating Nokia's claims ahead of its planned IPO this week — Nokia Technologies, the company's licensing business, sent Reddit a letter on Monday with the claims, and Reddit is evaluating them, according to a filing made Tuesday.| 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 — Moove, an African mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers, has raised $100 million …
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| Financial Times: |
Airbus ends talks with Atos on a deal worth ~€1.8B for its big data and security unit, imperiling efforts by Atos to avoid going into debt restructuring — Decision adds pressure on indebted French IT services company — Airbus has walked away from talks with Atos over a potential deal …
More: The Register, Bloomberg, and SecurityWeek
| 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” — UK tech entrepreneur finally faces a US jury after years of legal wrangling
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Sources: TSMC and Intel suppliers have delayed construction of facilities in Arizona, citing surging construction costs, a labor shortage, and weak local demand — At least 5 chemical makers slow expansion as industry awaits CHIPS Act funds — Rebuilding America's chip supply chain …
More: The Register, Tom's Hardware, and Benzinga
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Asus Zenbook Duo review: a sleek design, gorgeous displays, and solid battery life, but pricier than a clamshell and Windows 11 isn't optimized for two screens — You get a ton of extra utility for not that much more money or bulk. — Senior Writer, Reviews
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| 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 executive Search team changes — Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu Nayak as lead of search quality and ranking. Cathy Edwards is moving to the Long-term Bets team.
More: MediaPost and Search Engine Roundtable
| 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 storytelling platform — Onscreen stars have increasingly been going virtual. Jodie Comer and David Harbour are making their video game debuts in a remake … | 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 — “God is in the details,” reads one of Stephen Sondheim's rules of writing. — Sondheim was a lyricist, but it's a rule I believe is broadly applicable.Sponsor Posts
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