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Interviews with dozens of industry insiders and experts reveal Huawei’s and SMIC’s efforts to build advanced chips and maintain marketshare despite US sanctions (Qianer Liu/Financial Times)

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Interviews with dozens of industry insiders and experts reveal Huawei’s and SMIC’s efforts to build advanced chips and maintain marketshare despite US sanctions  —  The inside story of how the country’s flagship tech company kept its edge in the semiconductor war despite sanctions

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How Swedish battery maker Northvolt uses AI at its Skellefteå factory to help speed up EV battery making, led by former Apple AI researcher Siddharth Khullar (Rafaela Lindeberg/Bloomberg)

Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: How Swedish battery maker Northvolt uses AI at its Skellefteå factory to help speed up EV battery making, led by former Apple AI researcher Siddharth Khullar  —  – Machine-learning experts implement AI in production, research  — Push could reduce testing latency in some areas by 50%

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At re:Invent, AWS unveiled Model Evaluation on Bedrock in preview to help companies evaluate AI models before use, with human testers involved in the process (Emilia David/The Verge)

Emilia David / The Verge: At re:Invent, AWS unveiled Model Evaluation on Bedrock in preview to help companies evaluate AI models before use, with human testers involved in the process  —  Amazon wants users to evaluate AI models better and encourage more humans to be involved in the process.

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Substack rolls out video creation and editing tools to enable creators to publish video podcasts, create interactive AI-made transcripts, and customize clips (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Substack rolls out video creation and editing tools to enable creators to publish video podcasts, create interactive AI-made transcripts, and customize clips  —  Content creators are launching original shows on Substack as the company introduces a suite of new video tools

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Chromium(III) Telluride As Ferromagnetic Material With Tunable Anomalous Hall Effect

Chromium(III) Telluride (Cr2Te3) is an interesting material for (ferro)magnetic applications, with Yao Wen and colleagues reporting in a 2020 Nano Letters paper that they confirmed it to show spontaneous magnetization at a thickness of less than fifty nanometers, at room temperature. Such a 2D ferromagnet could be very useful for spintronics and other applications. The

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SoFi tells its crypto customers to liquidate their accounts or move holdings to Blockchain.com by December 19, as it exits crypto due to regulatory scrutiny (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: SoFi tells its crypto customers to liquidate their accounts or move holdings to Blockchain.com by December 19, as it exits crypto due to regulatory scrutiny  —  – Customers have to move by Dec. 19 or liquidate their coins … The San Francisco-based company told crypto customers Wednesday …

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OpenAI adds Microsoft as a non-voting observer on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI, as Sam Altman’s return as CEO is made official (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: OpenAI adds Microsoft as a non-voting observer on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI, as Sam Altman’s return as CEO is made official  —  Sam Altman is officially OpenAI’s CEO again.  —  Just before Thanksgiving, the company said it had reached a deal in principle for him to return, and

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Sources: Adobe’s proposal to address EU and UK concerns about its $20B Figma deal may include not tying Figma into Creative Cloud and a divestment of Adobe XD (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Adobe’s proposal to address EU and UK concerns about its $20B Figma deal may include not tying Figma into Creative Cloud and a divestment of Adobe XD  —  – Company executives scramble to address EU, UK antitrust fears  — Heavy remedies could be required to get worldwide green light

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Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.72B, vs. $8.72B est., and raises its FY 2024 forecast for operating cash flow growth; CRM jumps 6%+ (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC: Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.72B, vs. $8.72B est., and raises its FY 2024 forecast for operating cash flow growth; CRM jumps 6%+  —  – Salesforce’s growth rate has slipped in 2023 as businesses look for ways to cut costs.  — However, Salesforce’s stock has jumped …

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