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Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says “there is really no commercial downside” to sharing Meta’s AI tech openly, even as many peers take the opposite approach (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says “there is really no commercial downside” to sharing Meta’s AI tech openly, even as many peers take the opposite approach — Meta Platforms Inc. executives, speaking at an event Thursday, said there’s been no major drawbacks to openly sharing …

Sources: Tiger Global cut valuations of its portfolio companies in September 2023 including Superhuman by 45%, DuckDuckGo 72%, Yuga Labs 69%, and OpenSea 94% (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Tiger Global cut valuations of its portfolio companies in September 2023 including Superhuman by 45%, DuckDuckGo 72%, Yuga Labs 69%, and OpenSea 94% — The nearly $13 billion Private Investment Partners 15 fund marked down AI-powered email company Superhuman by 45% and cut its valuation …

Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare

Autonomous drones are rapidly changing combat. Anduril’s new one aims to gain an edge with jet power and AI.

You can now lock sensitive WhatsApp chats with a secret code

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp is rolling out a new Secret Code feature to make chats more private. Users will be able to lock individual chats and the Locked Chats folder with a Secret Code. The feature should be available widely in the coming months. WhatsApp has added a new Secret Code feature

An interview with Yann LeCun and Joelle Pineau ahead of the 10th anniversary of Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab on ChatGPT, AI in the metaverse, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Richard Nieva / Forbes: An interview with Yann LeCun and Joelle Pineau ahead of the 10th anniversary of Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab on ChatGPT, AI in the metaverse, and more — In an exclusive interview leading up to the 10th anniversary of Meta’s AI lab, LeCun reflects on the artificial intelligence boom …

Is Microsoft BASIC Hidden in This Educational Child’s Toy?

The VTech PreComputer 1000 is a rather ancient toy computer that was available in the distant misty past of 1988. It featured a keyboard and a variety of simple learning games, but does it also feature Microsoft BASIC? [Robin] of 8-Bit Show and Tell dove in to find out. Officially, the PreComputer was programmable in

Absolutely Everything About the Coleco Adam, 8-bit Home Computer

[Thom Cherryhomes] shared with us an incredible resource for anyone curious about the Coleco Adam, one of the big might-have-been home computers of the 80s. There’s a monstrous 4-hour deep dive video (see the video description for a comprehensive chapter index) that makes a fantastic reference for anyone wanting to see the Coleco Adam and

Dell reports Q3 revenue down 10% YoY to $22.3B, vs. $23B est., Client Solutions revenue down 11% YoY to $12.3B, and projects Q4 revenue of $22B, vs. $23.9B est. (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Dell reports Q3 revenue down 10% YoY to $22.3B, vs. $23B est., Client Solutions revenue down 11% YoY to $12.3B, and projects Q4 revenue of $22B, vs. $23.9B est. — – Demand jumps for high-performance servers that support AI — Company projects annual revenue will increase in coming year

Sources: CFIUS forced Aramco Ventures’ Prosperity7 fund to sell its stake in AI chip startup Rain AI in the past year; Prosperity7 led Rain’s 2022 $25M raise (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: Sources: CFIUS forced Aramco Ventures’ Prosperity7 fund to sell its stake in AI chip startup Rain AI in the past year; Prosperity7 led Rain’s 2022 $25M raise — – Aramco Ventures’ Prosperity7 sold Rain AI shares to Grep VC — Altman met Middle East funds for an Nvidia rival chip

Furiosa’s first trailer teases the origins of one of the Mad Max saga’s best characters

Image: Warner Bros. Mad Max: Fury Road had a lot of fantastic things going for it, but few shined quite as brilliantly as Charlize Theron’s tough-as-nails take on Imperator Furiosa. The character was a testament to how many more fascinating stories George Miller could dream up for his beloved apocalyptic franchise. And while Furiosa: A

Filings: Broadcom plans to lay off 1,267 VMware employees in California starting on January 26 and about 600 workers in Washington, Colorado, and Georgia (Aidin Vaziri/San Francisco Chronicle)

Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle: Filings: Broadcom plans to lay off 1,267 VMware employees in California starting on January 26 and about 600 workers in Washington, Colorado, and Georgia — Barely a week after completing the $69 billion acquisition of the Palo Alto cloud computing company VMware, Broadcom has started the process of significant

On-chain data and sources: Polygon gave DraftKings millions of MATIC to run a validator; the validator underperformed, and DraftKings was kicked off the network (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: On-chain data and sources: Polygon gave DraftKings millions of MATIC to run a validator; the validator underperformed, and DraftKings was kicked off the network — Blockchain data shows the crypto project quietly gave DraftKings preferential treatment while telling the public it was an “equal” member of the validator community.

Google asks the UK CMA to take action against Microsoft, claiming the company’s licensing practices unfairly discouraged customers from using rivals’ services (Martin Coulter/Reuters)

Martin Coulter / Reuters: Google asks the UK CMA to take action against Microsoft, claiming the company’s licensing practices unfairly discouraged customers from using rivals’ services — Google (GOOGL.O) has called on Britain’s antitrust regulator to take action against Microsoft (MSFT.O), claiming its business practices …

Internal documentation: Apple plans to include the Action button on the entire iPhone 16 range, including a force sensor to detect changes in pressure (Marko Zivkovic/MacRumors)

Marko Zivkovic / MacRumors: Internal documentation: Apple plans to include the Action button on the entire iPhone 16 range, including a force sensor to detect changes in pressure — The release of the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max saw the introduction of an entirely new user-configurable button known as the Action button …

Hacked Tea Lights Flicker Just Right

Flickering LED tea lights are a friendly and safe alternative to having flaming little pots of wax situated around your home, but sometimes the flicker scheme leaves something to be desired. [Roger Rabbit] found a set of six such rechargeable tea lights with a base and a remote, and replaced the controller with an ATtiny85

Tesla delivered the Cybertruck: here’s how to preorder one

A newer showcase model of the Cybertruck in New York City. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Cybertruck is here — for real this time — and for those who haven’t reserved one already, Tesla has a new ordering process. Today, you can preorder the visually perplexing, low-poly pickup truck on

An oil exec, a climate crisis, and reparations: what’s going down at the United Nations summit in Dubai

COP28 logo on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on November 30, 2023. | Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Will there be a future for fossil fuels? How much money do the most polluting countries owe the rest of the world? That’s all

Resident Evil 4 remake will add VR mode in December

Image: Capcom The Resident Evil 4 remake will soon get a change in perspective. On December 8th, the PS5 version of RE4 will get a free update adding VR mode to the game. “Resident Evil 4 VR Mode supports the full main story campaign and delivers an added level of immersion to Leon S. Kennedy’s

Some marketing agencies say their brands don’t plan to return to advertise on X, and others are advising brands to stop posting on X, after Elon Musk’s comments (New York Times)

New York Times: Some marketing agencies say their brands don’t plan to return to advertise on X, and others are advising brands to stop posting on X, after Elon Musk’s comments — Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

A US district judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Montana’s first-of-its-kind state ban on TikTok from taking effect on January 1 (Reuters)

Reuters: A US district judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Montana’s first-of-its-kind state ban on TikTok from taking effect on January 1 — A U.S. judge late on Thursday blocked Montana’s first-of-its kind state ban on the use of short-video sharing app TikTok from taking effect on Jan. 1.

AWS delivers AWS SDK for Rust

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its AWS SDK for Rust generally available, for developing and deploying applications on the AWS cloud using the Rust programming language. Announced November 28, the AWS SDK for Rust simplifies the use of AWS services by providing libraries familiar to Rust developers. Developers can get started with the SDK

Elon Musk hands over the first Tesla Cybertrucks to customers

The Verge / Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images The long-delayed delivery event is over after Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a few details about the new truck. Continue reading…

Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Here and It Costs $61,000

Elon Musk personally handed over the first Cybertrucks to reach customers at a delivery event in Austin today. Tesla also revealed the price and specs of its latest EV.

Indian IT giants Infosys and Wipro cut college recruitment in October as global demand cools, leaving hundreds of thousands of tech graduates in peril (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Indian IT giants Infosys and Wipro cut college recruitment in October as global demand cools, leaving hundreds of thousands of tech graduates in peril — India’s giant tech firms are curbing hiring, adding to the youth unemployment problem in the country — For years, India’s tech graduates …

Tesla Cybertruck Delivery Event Live: Price, Range, Specs

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced the price, range, and other important specs for the long-delayed Cybertruck. Join us for live coverage of all the news.

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