From Forbes: According to a new report by VPN maker Surfshark, Russia accounts for 61% of global content removal requests over the past decade all by itself, and the pace is increasing. Worldwide removal demands surged 50% last year to over 90,000, and Russia accounted for fully 58,000 of those...
From Tom's Hardware: Subsidies that multinational chipmakers are set to receive to build their fabs in Europe will come from two sources: the European Union itself, as part of the European Chips Act approved in July, and individual states. So far, Germany has promised $22 billion in incentives to...
From TechCrunch: OpenAI’s board of directors is reportedly in talks with Sam Altman, ex-Y Combinator president and an OpenAI co-founder, to return to OpenAI as CEO as soon as this week.
That’s according to Bloomberg, which in a brief this morning — citing sources close to the matter — said that...
From PC Mag: Microsoft says it’s ready to hire all of OpenAI’s employees should they leave, some of whom make north of $1 million.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott tweeted the offer today after 95%+ of OpenAI’s employees signed a letter, threatening to resign from the San Francisco lab unless ousted CEO...
From ExtremeTech: It's widely known now that Nvidia is cooking up some Super GPUs that it expects to launch in early January at CES. Last week, we reported Nvidia is allegedly ending production of the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti to make way for their Super successors, but now a new ripple has to do with...
From TechCrunch: Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said Monday, capping three days of intense discussions following the unexpected decision by OpenAI’s board to dismiss...
From Forbes: OpenAI is facing a mutiny amongst its own staff, with more than 500 threatening to walk out and join former CEO Sam Altman at Microsoft.
In an extraordinary open letter posted by Wired journalist Kara Swisher and signed by 505 members of staff, the group claims that Friday’s firing of...
From PC Mag: Don't expect a wide rollout for SpaceX's new Starlink dish for consumers.
SpaceX will first offer this "standard" dish as part of a beta trial before making it available to all customers, according to an update on the Starlink support page.
"At this time, the ability to purchase the...
From PC Mag: It looks like Nvidia has halted sales of the RTX 4090 graphics card in China to comply with a US export ban blocking AI chip sales to the country.
Nvidia previously featured the RTX 4090—a $1,599 and up product—on its Chinese website. But the company has mysteriously deleted mention...
From ExtremeTech: NASA's Psyche spacecraft is en route to an asteroid of the same name, but it won't arrive until 2028. In the meantime, NASA has used Psyche to test a new technology that could change how it communicates with spacecraft. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has...
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