From The Verge: November has been a big month for RCS — the mobile messaging protocol championed by Google — and now, the company is capping it off with the announcement of a milestone and some festive new features. First, the number: according to Google, over 1 billion monthly active users are...

From The Verge: Valve’s Steam Link app, which lets you stream games from your Steam library to another device, is out now for the Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets, according to a news post from Valve. Having Steam Link available on Quest devices means that you can more easily play your VR games...

From PC Mag: Elon Musk had a hostile message for companies pulling their advertising from Twitter/X because of his controversial views.

“If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail with money, go fuck yourself,” he said while being interviewed today at the New York Times'...

From TechCrunch: Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so.

During a keynote at its AWS re:Invent 2023 conference this morning, Amazon debuted Titan Image Generator, which is now available in preview for AWS...

From PC World: If you’ve delayed buying a cheap SSD for the holidays, you might want to try and jump in before Christmas. Market reports out of Taiwan note that the price of the flash memory used in SSDs is increasing sharply, meaning those prices will hit your wallet before long.

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From The Verge: 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 now it’s done. Microsoft is getting a non-voting observer seat on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI as well, the company announced...

From TechCrunch: There’s a shortage of GPUs as the demand for generative AI, which is often trained and run on GPUs, grows. Nvidia’s best-performing chips are reportedly sold out until 2024. The CEO of chipmaker TSMC was less optimistic recently, suggesting that the shortage of GPUs from Nvidia — as...

From PC Mag: Amazon has launched a new business-focused chatbot, dubbed Amazon Q, which promises to be a customizable assistant that can answer questions, generate content, and assist employees with a wide range of job functions.

"Really excited to share with customers Amazon Q—a new type of...

From ExtremeTech: Nvidia pulled in a metric crap-ton of money in the most recent quarter, due mainly to sales of its data center products. The company showed more than a 200% increase in total revenue year-over-year, and out of $18 billion in earnings, $14.5 billion was from its data center products...

From Tom's Hardware: The German government is committed to supporting the construction of chip fabs by Intel, TSMC, and Wolfspeed, despite facing financial challenges due to a budget crisis, reports HardwareLuxx. In fact, Intel and Wolfspeed have already received firm funding commitments from the...