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Sources: the EU leans toward excluding iMessage from DMA rules due to not being popular enough among business users, part of an investigation ending in February (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
on December 6, 2023 at 11:50 am
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU leans toward excluding iMessage from DMA rules due to not being popular enough among business users, part of an investigation ending in February — – EU tentatively finds it doesn’t warrant being covered by DMA — New antitrust law imposes raft of Big Tech dos and don’ts
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San Diego-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple plans to shutter its US business, laying off 150, or 75% of its US staff, and move its business to China (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
on December 6, 2023 at 11:35 am
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: San Diego-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple plans to shutter its US business, laying off 150, or 75% of its US staff, and move its business to China — Self-driving trucking company will continue to operate out of China — Self-driving trucking company TuSimple Holdings …
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Google plans to add its “Help me write” AI tool to Chrome, appearing in autofill popups when typing text, expanding on Google Messages, Gmail, Docs, and Keep (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)
on December 6, 2023 at 11:15 am
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google plans to add its “Help me write” AI tool to Chrome, appearing in autofill popups when typing text, expanding on Google Messages, Gmail, Docs, and Keep — Over the past few months, Google has been steadily introducing AI tools to its many apps and services.
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Meta plans to fix an issue causing many Instagram videos posted between June 2013 and October 2014 to lose their audio, but offers no timeframe (Jay Peters/The Verge)
on December 6, 2023 at 10:40 am
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta plans to fix an issue causing many Instagram videos posted between June 2013 and October 2014 to lose their audio, but offers no timeframe — Many of the earliest Instagram videos have lost their sound. More than a year of videos posted to the platform are now silent …
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Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify from China (Financial Times)
on December 6, 2023 at 10:15 am
Financial Times: Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify from China — Tech giant wants suppliers to build key component in India as part of broader effort to diversify supply chain
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The internet enabled mass surveillance, and AI will enable mass spying, once limited by human labor, by making troves of data searchable and understandable (Bruce Schneier/Schneier on Security)
on December 6, 2023 at 9:00 am
Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: The internet enabled mass surveillance, and AI will enable mass spying, once limited by human labor, by making troves of data searchable and understandable — Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide …
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Q&A with Waymo CPO Saswat Panigrahi on simulating 25K+ vehicles 24/7 to improve AI driving, growing in San Francisco and Phoenix after Cruise’s woes, and more (Hayden Field/CNBC)
on December 6, 2023 at 7:35 am
Hayden Field / CNBC: Q&A with Waymo CPO Saswat Panigrahi on simulating 25K+ vehicles 24/7 to improve AI driving, growing in San Francisco and Phoenix after Cruise’s woes, and more — – Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, is having a relatively good couple of months – at least, compared to one of its key rivals: GM’s Cruise.
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Sources: ByteDance offers to buy back up to $5B of shares from existing investors at $160 per share, putting the company’s valuation at $268B, down 11% on 2022 (Zhou Xin/South China Morning Post)
on December 6, 2023 at 7:30 am
Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: Sources: ByteDance offers to buy back up to $5B of shares from existing investors at $160 per share, putting the company’s valuation at $268B, down 11% on 2022 — Beijing-based ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is offering to buy back up to US$5 billion worth of shares from existing investors …
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Cambridge, UK-based Pragmatic Semiconductor, which develops and manufactures flexible integrated circuits, raised £182M at a ~£500M post-money valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
on December 6, 2023 at 7:20 am
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Cambridge, UK-based Pragmatic Semiconductor, which develops and manufactures flexible integrated circuits, raised £182M at a ~£500M post-money valuation — The £182mn financing sets Cambridge-based group on track to become Britain’s biggest semiconductor supplier by volume
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A look at struggles of lawmakers around the world to regulate AI, including tech’s rapid pace, knowledge deficit in governments, and labyrinthine bureaucracies (New York Times)
on December 6, 2023 at 6:50 am
New York Times: A look at struggles of lawmakers around the world to regulate AI, including tech’s rapid pace, knowledge deficit in governments, and labyrinthine bureaucracies — Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond …
