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MLCommons’ MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles, finds Nvidia’s H100s performed best, closely followed by Intel’s Gaudi2 (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: MLCommons’ MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles, finds Nvidia’s H100s performed best, closely followed by Intel’s Gaudi2  —  An artificial intelligence benchmark group called MLCommons unveiled the results on Monday of new tests that determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware can run AI models.

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TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a home screen Shop button that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K+ sellers (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a home screen Shop button that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K+ sellers  —  The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app’s users in the U.S., hoping to add a

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Investor video: Arm CEO Rene Haas outlines a pivot toward complex design work on specific products, a “purpose-built approach” to address the needs of clients (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg: Investor video: Arm CEO Rene Haas outlines a pivot toward complex design work on specific products, a “purpose-built approach” to address the needs of clients  —  – SoftBank-owned chip designer has shifted its strategy  — Arm stock offering is set to get underway later this week

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The White House says eight more companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability, are signing its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: The White House says eight more companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability, are signing its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total  —  15 companies, ranging from Photoshop creator Adobe to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, have now taken the voluntary commitments

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A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies  —  Thierry Breton is a proponent of more regulation — and rules that boost EU companies. … The 68-year-old Frenchman was suppressing a smile …

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California Senate passes a bill that requires the presence of a human safety operator in self-driving trucks on public roads; bill requires governor’s approval (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: California Senate passes a bill that requires the presence of a human safety operator in self-driving trucks on public roads; bill requires governor’s approval  —  In a blow to the autonomous trucking industry, the California Senate passed a bill Monday that requires a trained human safety operator …

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Lime says its gross bookings grew 45% YoY to $250M in H1 2023 and the adjusted EBITDA reached $27M, as CEO Wayne Ting hints at an IPO (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Lime says its gross bookings grew 45% YoY to $250M in H1 2023 and the adjusted EBITDA reached $27M, as CEO Wayne Ting hints at an IPO  —  Lime, the startup with shared e-scooters and e-bikes in 280 cities around the world, has been talking about going public for years.

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