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Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are vying to become the regional AI superpower, are rushing to build expensive desert data centers to support the technology
Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are vying to become the regional AI superpower, are...
Apple sends threat notifications to individuals in 92 countries, warning them that their iPhone may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Apple sends threat notifications to individuals in 92 countries, warning them that...
The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to...
Australian data center operator NextDC is raising AU$1.32B of equity to accelerate development and fit-out of centers in its core Sydney and Melbourne markets
Stuart Condie / Wall Street Journal: Australian data center operator NextDC is raising AU$1.32B of equity...
Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international markets, to focus on its India expansion ahead of an IPO
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years...
Sources: Huawei is building a vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai and has already hired numerous engineers who have worked for ASML, TSMC, and others
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Huawei is building a vast chip equipment R&D center in...
A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS
Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three...
The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese companies
Bloomberg: The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm,...
Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse...
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his...
Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables
Granth Vanaik / Reuters: Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US,...
Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of AI technology
Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push...
Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023
Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Mistral AI launches Mixtral 8x22B, its latest sparse mixture-of-experts model, after releasing...
Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more “art than a science”, often omitting costs of putting Starlink satellites in orbit to make numbers look better to investors
Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX's accounting is more “art than a science”, often omitting costs of putting Starlink...
Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training generative AI models to disclose all of the copyrighted work they used to do so
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill: Rep. Adam Schiff introduced a bill that would require companies training...
How the increasing use of unreliable AI-powered accessibility widgets on company websites to comply with regulations has prompted thousands of lawsuits globally
Joanna S Kao / Financial Times: How the increasing use of unreliable AI-powered accessibility widgets on...
Spotify launches AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting users generate playlists using a text prompt
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify launches AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the...
A look at Towa Corp., which TechInsights says commands two-thirds of the global chip molding equipment market and has seen shares jump ~400% in the past year
Bloomberg: A look at Towa Corp., which TechInsights says commands two-thirds of the global chip molding...
Maryland's legislature passed two privacy bills, one restricting data collection practices and the other focused on minors' safety on social platforms
Natasha Singer / New York Times: Maryland's legislature passed two privacy bills, one restricting data collection...
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice opens inquiry into Elon Musk for obstruction of justice involving X and says X faces ~$20K/day in fines if it does not comply
Anthony Boadle / Reuters: A Brazilian Supreme Court justice opens inquiry into Elon Musk for obstruction...
Lawmakers share a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a registry of data brokers, let consumers opt out of some data collection, more
Orion Donovan Smith / Spokesman.com: Lawmakers share a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which...
How some teachers are using AI tools like ChatGPT, Writable, Grammarly, and EssayGrader to help grade papers, make lesson plans, and create assignments
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: How some teachers are using AI tools like ChatGPT, Writable, Grammarly,...
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts” and is defying the court's ruling
Anthony Boadle / Reuters: Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil...
