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Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook — The chipmaker is delaying one of its biggest events, which was slated for September and expected to include more details about upcoming processors.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards” the DMA's “fundamental requirements”; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with a 15% junk fee — Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI rolls out the ability for ChatGPT free users to create up to two images per day with DALL-E 3, after launching DALL-E 3 to Plus subscribers in October — OpenAI is going to let users of ChatGPT's free tier make up to two images per day with its DALL-E 3 model, the company announced on Thursday.
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Keir Starmer confirms UK's Online Safety Act will be reviewed after London mayor Sadiq Khan said the law was “not fit for purpose” after far-right riots — Move comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan said role of misinformation in unrest showed law was unfit for purpose| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 — X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.| Washington Post: |
The Google monopoly ruling dealt a blow to one of Big Tech's arguments against regulation: that 19th-century antitrust laws can't address modern tech innovation — The first big tech-sector anti-monopoly ruling in a generation challenges the idea that the internet era has outgrown U.S. antitrust law.
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Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation — Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques| Wired: |
OpenAI reveals details of GPT-4o's safety testing, including concerns that its anthropomorphic voice may make some users emotionally attached to their chatbot — The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants — The Chips Program Office is tasked with overseeing one of the most ambitious manufacturing comebacks in US history
More: Phoenix Business Journal
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
TikTok and Pinterest partner with Amazon to let users buy items from Amazon ads without leaving the social media apps — Amazon's e-commerce business is huge but slow-growing, while shopping on social media has been taking off. That's prompted Amazon to look for ways to team up with popular social media apps.
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| Alan Crawford / Bloomberg: |
A look at the deepening engagement of EU's auto chipmakers with China as sales suffer in the West; McKinsey: automotive chips market will be worth $150B by 2030 — - Latest earnings show China's EV growth as a rare bright spot — Beijing's push for tech independence threatens foreign sales
More: Nikkei Asia and Livemint
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode — Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer … | Iain Martin / Forbes: |
A look at Whisper CEO Michael Heyward's Medialab, which acquired Imgur and Genius and was sued by their founders and others for allegedly failing to honor deals — Whisper cofounder and CEO Michael Heyward's second company made a $1.1 billion business out of acquiring floundering startups like Imgur, Genius and Kik.Sponsor Posts
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