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Trump team seeks to toughen chip controls over China – media
The Trump administration is planning to toughen semiconductor restrictions on China.
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Telegram hit with AUD$1M fine: Australia's crackdown on tech giants
Australia’s online safety regulator has fined social media platform Telegram for AUD$1 million (€608,000) for failing to respond to a transparency reporting notice deadline by over five months.
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Apple plans 20,000 jobs
Apple said on Monday it would spend $500 billion in U.S. investments in the next four years.
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From $8 to $1 per hour: GPU rental prices are crashing
Despite the AI boom and skyrocketing graphics processing unit (GPU) prices, the slump in the GPU rental market continues. The Nvidia H100, priced at nearly $30,000, is available for rent at just $1 per hour. And Nvidia’s RTX 4090 can be found for as little as $0.20 per hour.
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Space is about to get more crowded for Elon Musk
Analysis-Musk's Starlink races with Chinese rivals to dominate satellite internet
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The AI IP wars: when tech giants flip their stance on copyright
Over the last few years, big tech has scraped free data from the internet to train its machine-learning algorithms. But that quickly changed when the tables were turned and competitors began using their outputs. Suddenly, it became a problem. This pattern is appearing in so many corners of AI that it's becoming more comical than ironic.
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Synthetic android clone “terrifies” internet, but is also “pretty cool”
Social media has reacted with awe (and fear) to a video clip of the world’s first-ever bipedal, musculoskeletal android – shown writhing around midair with its creepy human-like body, hung like a puppet from above.
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Musk's X gets German judge removed in battle over election data
Elon Musk-owned X has secured a German court motion to remove a judge overseeing a legal battle between the social media giant and two activist groups over sharing election data, a court document seen by Reuters on Friday showed.
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Berkeley students transform basic LLM into a “reasoner” for under $450
Students at UC Berkeley turned an open-source large language model (LLM) without reasoning capabilities into a “reasoning” one. This dramatically improved the model's capabilities and only cost around $450 of compute. However, the process needed to borrow knowledge from a much better LLM.
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Quantum computing stocks rise as Microsoft's new chip heats up debate over technology
Quantum computing stocks rose in premarket trading on Thursday after Microsoft launched a new chip that indicated the technology is not "decades away" as stated by the top boss of AI chip bellwether Nvidia.
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Q-Day cometh to hit us 100%, in much the same way ChatGPT did
Just like AI for many decades, quantum computers seem to be on the margins of the public discourse. ChatGPT didn’t just happen. It's just that we were ignorant to scientific research until it threatened the job market and promised better profits for corporations.
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Tesla crash test footage released, only that’s not what happens in the wild
Tesla has released footage from its Cybertruck crash test back in 2023, where the team says it's the safest pickup truck on the market – well, we’ll see about that.
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Sony sued for ‘disproportionate Sony tax’: abusing its market position to increase game prices?
Sony accused of abusing its market position in the digital sale of PlayStation games to increase prices.
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Meta slapped on the wrist for discriminatory advertising algorithm
According to the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, Meta’s advertising algorithm indirectly discriminates based on gender.
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Apps like My Fitness Pal could be putting your mental health at risk
The multi-billion dollar health and fitness app industry is booming, while users risk developing disorders in the pursuit of health and wellness.
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Apple introduces first budget AI: the $599 iPhone 16e
Apple launched its latest low-cost model, dubbed the iPhone 16e, on Wednesday as it looks to grab a bigger share of the mid-range smartphone market and fend off rivals such as Samsung and China's Huawei.
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Russia fines Google for YouTube clip telling Russian troops how to surrender
A Russian court has fined Alphabet's Google 3.8 million roubles ($41,530) for hosting content on YouTube that included videos instructing Russian soldiers how to surrender, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Monday.
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Be careful what you GIF for: Giphy reveals your deepest desires
When does “cuffing season” actually begin? And when do people feel the loneliest? Giphy has the answers.
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Italy investigates Amazon over alleged 1.2 billion euro tax evasion
Italian prosecutors are investigating e-commerce giant Amazon and three of its executives over alleged tax evasion worth 1.2-billion-euro ($1.26 billion), two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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Cybertruck crash raises alarm bells about Tesla's self-driving software
A crash involving a Tesla Cybertruck in self-driving mode this week has sparked worries about the reliability of the company's software that powers the feature
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