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At a classified briefing on July 11 with senators, US national security officials defended their deployment of AI; Chuck Schumer has arranged three AI briefings (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: At a classified briefing on July 11 with senators, US national security officials defended their deployment of AI; Chuck Schumer has arranged three AI briefings  —  Senior US national security officials are scheduled to defend their use and development of artificial intelligence on Tuesday …

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A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI (Andrew Deck/Rest of World)

Andrew Deck / Rest of World: A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI  —  The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the

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Experts: the FTC faces hurdles to appeal the Activision ruling as the facts work in Microsoft’s favor; some question the judge’s standard on harming competition (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Experts: the FTC faces hurdles to appeal the Activision ruling as the facts work in Microsoft’s favor; some question the judge’s standard on harming competition  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission would face hurdles in any appeal of a court’s order on Tuesday that said Microsoft (MSFT.O) …

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Indian IT giant Wipro plans to spend $1B over the next three years to train its 250K employees in AI and integrate the technology into its product offerings (Alex Gabriel Simon/Bloomberg)

Alex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg: Indian IT giant Wipro plans to spend $1B over the next three years to train its 250K employees in AI and integrate the technology into its product offerings  —  Wipro Ltd., the Indian outsourcing provider, plans to spend $1 billion to train its 250,000 employees in artificial intelligence …

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Proper Decoupling Capacitors

If you’ve been building circuits for any length of time, you probably know you need decoupling capacitors to keep your circuits stable. But even though it’s a favorite technique of ours, just scattering some around you PCB and hoping for the best isn’t necessarily the best approach. If you want to dig deeper into the

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Emails: Google employee no. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” amid a shakeup at Google Cloud (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Emails: Google employee no. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” amid a shakeup at Google Cloud  —  – Employee No. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, CNBC has learned.

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Research firms say Huawei is plotting a return to the US 5G smartphone market by the end of 2023 using its own chip design tools and SMIC’s chipmaking process (David Kirton/Reuters)

David Kirton / Reuters: Research firms say Huawei is plotting a return to the US 5G smartphone market by the end of 2023 using its own chip design tools and SMIC’s chipmaking process  —  – US-sanctioned giant likely to produce 5G chips domestically  — Chips expected to use Huawei EDA tools and SMIC production

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Microsoft says Chinese hackers gained access to US government email accounts and had access to some accounts for a month before the breach was detected (New York Times)

New York Times: Microsoft says Chinese hackers gained access to US government email accounts and had access to some accounts for a month before the breach was detected  —  The hack, by a Chinese group that the company said was intent on conducting espionage, went undetected for a month.  —  Reporting from Washington

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Sources: SoftBank-owned Arm is in talks to bring in Nvidia as an anchor investor while it presses ahead with plans for a New York IPO as soon as September (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank-owned Arm is in talks to bring in Nvidia as an anchor investor while it presses ahead with plans for a New York IPO as soon as September  —  World’s most valuable semiconductor group discusses acquiring stake in SoftBank-owned chip designer ahead of New York listing

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Temasek says it does not plan to invest in crypto companies due to regulatory uncertainty; the firm wrote down its $275M FTX investment to zero in November 2022 (Sheila Chiang/CNBC)

Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Temasek says it does not plan to invest in crypto companies due to regulatory uncertainty; the firm wrote down its $275M FTX investment to zero in November 2022  —  – Temasek is not currently looking to invest in crypto firms, following a $275 million FTX loss.  — “There’s a lot of

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London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should …

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A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping sans consent for AI training, after a similar suit against OpenAI (Catherine Thorbecke/CNN)

Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping sans consent for AI training, after a similar suit against OpenAI  —  Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without …

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Critics say FTC Chair Lina Khan’s take-it-to-the-courts strategy is flawed, ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing to “examine mismanagement of the FTC” (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Critics say FTC Chair Lina Khan’s take-it-to-the-courts strategy is flawed, ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing to “examine mismanagement of the FTC”  —  Lina Khan has said a fear of defeat should not deter the agency from suing big tech companies.

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As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud providers face pressure to meet AI demand, Dell, Qualcomm, and other on-premises hardware providers see an opening (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud providers face pressure to meet AI demand, Dell, Qualcomm, and other on-premises hardware providers see an opening  —  Traditional cloud infrastructure wasn’t designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence.  Hyperscalers are quickly working to rebuild it.

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