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An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, ahead of re:Invent, on the multifaceted impact of generative AI, the role of AI chips, the OpenAI fiasco, and more (John Furrier/SiliconANGLE)

John Furrier / SiliconANGLE: An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, ahead of re:Invent, on the multifaceted impact of generative AI, the role of AI chips, the OpenAI fiasco, and more  —  As the rush to generative artificial intelligence only gains more momentum every day, Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Adam Selipsky …

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3D Printing a Nifty Sphere Without Supports

[DaveMakesStuff] demonstrates a great technique for 3D printing a sphere; a troublesome shape for filament-based printers to handle. As a bonus, it uses a minimum of filament. His ideas can be applied to your own designs, but his Giant Spiralized Sphere would also just happen to make a fine ornament this holiday season. Printing two interlocking

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The US, the UK, and more than a dozen other countries release joint guidelines for AI system development, including creating systems that are “secure by design” (Reuters)

Reuters: The US, the UK, and more than a dozen other countries release joint guidelines for AI system development, including creating systems that are “secure by design”  —  The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described …

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Robot Goes to Summer Camp

There are a lot of hobby and educational robots that have a similar form factor: a low, wide body with either wheels or tracks for locomotion. When [Alexander Kirilov] wanted to teach a summer robot camp, he looked at several different commercial offerings and found all of them somewhat lacking. His wish list was a

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AWS unveils the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a $195 compact computer, adapted from the Fire TV Cube, allowing workers to access cloud-based virtual desktops (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: AWS unveils the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a $195 compact computer, adapted from the Fire TV Cube, allowing workers to access cloud-based virtual desktops  —  Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a compact computer that workers can use to access cloud-based virtual desktops.

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Huawei announces it’s moving its smart car unit’s core tech and resources into a new joint venture with Changan Auto, which is taking a 40% stake in the company (Reuters)

Reuters: Huawei announces it’s moving its smart car unit’s core tech and resources into a new joint venture with Changan Auto, which is taking a 40% stake in the company  —  China’s Huawei (HWT.UL) said on Sunday it will move core technologies and resources in its smart car unit …

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3 big challenges of commercial LLMs

Large language models (LLMs) can understand and generate human language. These generative AI tools are powerful and popular, with over 90% of retail and ecommerce leaders reporting using them to assist with work tasks, according to a recent Future Commerce report. For example, LLMs can generate different versions of a product description for different types

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AI hype isn’t helping anyone

Sometimes AI hype can be so silly that it distracts us from the important work of making it functional. For example, you can read Bill Gates’ paean to AI and believe that within the next five years, “You’ll simply tell your device, in everyday language, what you want to do.” Of course! And maybe you’ll

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Sources: ByteDance plans to internally announce on Monday that it is winding down its Nuverse gaming brand and is fully retreating from mainstream video games (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: ByteDance plans to internally announce on Monday that it is winding down its Nuverse gaming brand and is fully retreating from mainstream video games  —  TikTok maker ByteDance is set to internally announce on Monday the winding down of its Nuverse gaming brand and full retreat …

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Sources: ByteDance plans to internally announce on Monday that it is winding down its Nuverse gaming brand and is fully retreating from mainstream video games (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: ByteDance plans to internally announce on Monday that it is winding down its Nuverse gaming brand and is fully retreating from mainstream video games  —  TikTok maker ByteDance is set to internally announce on Monday the winding down of its Nuverse gaming brand and full retreat …

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A look at Shein’s NYC pop-up store, which resembled its website and may have only reinforced Shein’s image of being quick, cheap, and not quite as it seems (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: A look at Shein’s NYC pop-up store, which resembled its website and may have only reinforced Shein’s image of being quick, cheap, and not quite as it seems  —  The Shein pop-up store in New York this month resembled the e-commerce giant’s website, except picture-perfect.

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