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December 3, 2024, 4:10 PM

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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry on Tuesday …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says it's using Amazon's Trainium and Graviton chips to serve search services and is evaluating if Trainium2 chips can be used to pre-train its AI models  —  Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and will evaluate …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS announces general availability of Trainium2 chips, and EC2 Trn2 UltraServers, which feature 64 Trainium2 chips; Trainium3 is slated for 2025  —  At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs).
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
AWS announces Project Rainier, a cluster that will contain “hundreds of thousands” of Trainium2 chips, slated for 2025 and to be used by Anthropic  —  The company's megacluster of chips for artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic will be among the world's largest, it said …
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The CFPB proposes limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach discovered in April 2024  —  In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Nick Clegg says Mark Zuckerberg is keen to play “an active role” in Trump admin tech policy debates and Meta “overdid it a bit” when moderating pandemic content  —  Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect
Bloomberg:
Financial Times:
China bans shipments to the US of several “dual-use” minerals and metals used in chipmaking and military applications, in a retaliation to new US chips curbs  —  Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries  —  China has banned shipments to the US of several …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:
The NCSC says the UK faces a “widening gap” in its ability to fight cyber threats, and “severe” incidents handled by the agency tripled to 12 in the past year  —  Number of incidents at top end of scale of severity tripled last year, including attack that took down London hospitals
Sam Sabin / Axios:
The FBI and CISA urge US telecoms to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain present on telecoms' networks  —  - Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.
Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times:
German defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection  —  Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems

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