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Omdia: Meta and Microsoft are expected to have received 150K Nvidia H100 GPUs each by the end of 2023, three times as many as Google, Amazon, or Oracle (Dan Robinson/The Register)

Dan Robinson / The Register: Omdia: Meta and Microsoft are expected to have received 150K Nvidia H100 GPUs each by the end of 2023, three times as many as Google, Amazon, or Oracle  —  Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up  —  Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20

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Sources: OpenAI board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and it never got any letter warning about Q* (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources: OpenAI board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and it never got any letter warning about Q*  —  A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman’s happy ending  —  On the surface, the OpenAI team that showed …

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Mozaic, whose API helps creators split and automate payments with collaborators, raised a $20M Series A from Volition Capital, taking its total funding to $27M+ (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Mozaic, whose API helps creators split and automate payments with collaborators, raised a $20M Series A from Volition Capital, taking its total funding to $27M+  —  Creators often work with different collaborators for different projects.  And splitting payments with others is one of the biggest challenges for creators.

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A Tube Guitar Amp for a Modest Budget

There’s a mystique among both audiophiles and musicians about vacuum technology, thus having a tube amp still carries a bit of a cachet. New ones can be bought for eye-watering prices and old ones can be had for the same price with the added frisson of unreliability. Happily it’s surprisingly straightforward to build your own,

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Sources: Paramount and WBD stopped posting under certain corporate handles on X due to brand safety concerns; Disney-affiliated X accounts have also gone dark (Oliver Darcy/CNN)

Oliver Darcy / CNN: Sources: Paramount and WBD stopped posting under certain corporate handles on X due to brand safety concerns; Disney-affiliated X accounts have also gone dark  —  The exodus from X is bleeding beyond just major advertisers.  —  In recent days, a number of prominent media brands …

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AWS announces AI foundation model enhancements to its automated speech recognition service Transcribe, now supporting 100+ languages, and to Personalize and Lex (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: AWS announces AI foundation model enhancements to its automated speech recognition service Transcribe, now supporting 100+ languages, and to Personalize and Lex  —  Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a range of new artificial intelligence service capabilities that are enhanced using foundation models.

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Cradle, which uses AI to help design and engineer proteins faster and more cost-effectively, raised a $24M Series A led by Index Ventures (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Cradle, which uses AI to help design and engineer proteins faster and more cost-effectively, raised a $24M Series A led by Index Ventures  —  Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment.

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How OpenAI’s leadership chaos points to lingering governance issues and could affect its business prospects as it moves forward fundraising at an $86B valuation (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: How OpenAI’s leadership chaos points to lingering governance issues and could affect its business prospects as it moves forward fundraising at an $86B valuation  —  Also Binance’s guilty plea and Finnish electricity prices.  —  OpenAI  —  Ten days ago OpenAI was worth $86 billion.

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