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Google DeepMind details AlphaGeometry, created by AI researcher Trieu Trinh and others to solve Olympiad geometry problems at nearly a human gold medalist level (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)

Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: Google DeepMind details AlphaGeometry, created by AI researcher Trieu Trinh and others to solve Olympiad geometry problems at nearly a human gold medalist level  —  Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch.  —  For four years, the computer scientist …

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Global chip revenue dropped 11% YoY to $533B in 2023; Intel regained top spot with $48.7B, followed by Samsung’s $39.9B; Nvidia was top five for the first time (Gartner)

Gartner: Global chip revenue dropped 11% YoY to $533B in 2023; Intel regained top spot with $48.7B, followed by Samsung’s $39.9B; Nvidia was top five for the first time  —  – Memory Revenue Poised to Record One of the Worst Downturns in History  — Intel Regained No. 1 Spot from Samsung

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Notion debuts Notion Calendar, a free app on Mac, Windows, iOS, and the web with an optional Notion integration, after buying the calendar app Cron in June 2022 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Notion debuts Notion Calendar, a free app on Mac, Windows, iOS, and the web with an optional Notion integration, after buying the calendar app Cron in June 2022  —  Does the world need more calendar apps?  That’s the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion …

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Sources: Amazon plans a paid version of Alexa by June 2024, with an AI-powered version of Alexa, but internal politics and technical issues plague the project (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Sources: Amazon plans a paid version of Alexa by June 2024, with an AI-powered version of Alexa, but internal politics and technical issues plague the project  —  – Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant.  — The new plan would use an upgraded,

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Google plans to tweak search results to give comparison websites more prominence, including a new unit of links for such websites, to comply with the EU’s DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Google plans to tweak search results to give comparison websites more prominence, including a new unit of links for such websites, to comply with the EU’s DMA  —  Google will tweak online search results to give comparison sites more prominence, the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday …

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Researchers detail PixieFail, a set of nine vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware from five of the top suppliers that helps hackers infect devices with malware (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail PixieFail, a set of nine vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware from five of the top suppliers that helps hackers infect devices with malware  —  PixieFail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers.  For the rest, less so.  —  UEFI firmware from five of the leading suppliers …

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JFrog, AWS team up for machine learning in the cloud

Software supply chain provider JFrog is integrating with the Amazon SageMaker cloud-based machine learning platform to incorporate machine learning models into the software development lifecycle. The JFrog platform integration with Amazon SageMaker, available now, ensures artifacts produced by data scientists to develop machine learning applications are pulled from and saved in the JFrog Artifactory. Announced on

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Amazon now lets US users create AI-generated backgrounds using Alexa prompts on the second-gen Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Omni QLED Series (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon now lets US users create AI-generated backgrounds using Alexa prompts on the second-gen Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Omni QLED Series  —  Amazon is officially rolling out the ability to create AI-generated images on Fire TV devices.  Starting today, the feature is available …

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