'A dispute over how much profit Intel stood to take from each chip sold to the Japanese electronics giant blocked Intel from settling on the price with Sony, according to two of the sources.' nice @chernandburn
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Tech Giants Face Scrutiny Over Data Center Emissions
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excellent report on squishy emissions math at large-cap tech from @xisabelobrienx https://
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Vodafone invests $1.5bn in Microsoft AI cloud services
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'Vodafone said it planned to invest $1.5bn (£1.2bn) over the next 10 years in cloud and customer-focused AI services developed in collaboration with Microsoft.'
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Volvo EX90 Debuts NVIDIA Drive Orin-Powered AI Platform
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@volvocars rolls out the EX90 SUV, first vehicle in its EV lineup built on @NVIDIADRIVE Orin, running NVIDIA DriveOS; Announces plans to integrate NVIDIA DRIVE Thor in future models and taps NVIDIA DGX for advanced #AI training. -
Microsoft AI Hiring Exceptional Engineers for Multimodal Research
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I’ve joined @Microsoft AI to advance the frontier of large scale multimodal AI research and to build products for people to achieve meaningful goals and dreams. The MAI team is small, but well resourced and ambitious. We are now looking for exceptional ICs, who like to ship. If
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AI Compute Power: 10,000x GPT-4 by 2030, Is It a Bottleneck?
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Analysis: By 2030, we will see a 10,000-fold increase in computing power compared to GPT-4. Epoch AI's analysis forecasts that AI training runs could reach up to 2e29 FLOP (floating point operations) in about 5 years. Will we hit an electricity/chips/data bottleneck? Link to
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Oracle promises accelerating growth through 2029 amid stock surge
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Oracle: Enough in the trunk to keep the shares rising? Oracle dazzled analysts on Thursday with a promise of accelerating revenue growth through 2029. Will it be enough to keep the stock gaining after a fifty-four percent rise this year? https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/orac
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EU Regulation of AI: Examining Overreach Concerns
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The E.U. Went Too Far https://
stratechery.com/2024/the-e-u-g
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Apple iPhone 16 Event: AI Features, Watch 10, AirPods
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Everything announced at Apple's iPhone 16 'Glowtime' Event: AI, Apple Watch 10, AirPods, more: Apple unveiled a deluge of new hardware as well as many new health features during its keynote last week. Here's a roundup of all… https://
zdnet.com/article/everyt
hing-announced-at-apples-iphone-16-glowup-event-ai-apple-watch-10-airpods-more/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#ftag=RSSbaffb68
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Google Moves Location History Processing On-Device for Privacy
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Agree; perhaps one of the reasons Google is moving location history on device https://
theverge.com/2024/6/5/24172
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