Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Nvidia closed up 2.9% at $139.93, hitting a $3.43T market cap and surpassing Apple at $3.38T and Microsoft at $3.06T; NVDA is up 850% since the end of 2022 — Elon Musk Is Now X's Biggest Promoter of Anti-Immigrant Conspiracies … Hello World … Quicktake
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Nvidia closed up 2.9% at $139.93, hitting a $3.43T market cap and surpassing Apple at $3.38T and Microsoft at $3.06T; NVDA is up 850% since the end of 2022 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including large Instagram meme accounts, to promote election betting despite being banned in the US (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including large Instagram meme accounts, to promote election betting despite being banned in the US — - Content creators contacted by Polymarket's growth director — US audience targeted with ads despite ban on trade in US
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024 (Marshall Cohen/CNN)
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024 — In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims …
The UK CMA says it would approve the £15B Vodafone-Three merger if they commit to investing £11B to upgrade the UK's network, ahead of a December 7 decision (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA says it would approve the £15B Vodafone-Three merger if they commit to investing £11B to upgrade the UK's network, ahead of a December 7 decision — - CMA calls for short term protections to prevent price hikes — The £15 billion ($19.5 billion) …
Monday, November 4, 2024
An analysis of 800 US adults' TikTok feeds: female users received ~11% more content about Harris than men did, and saw 40% more Harris campaign videos than men (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
An analysis of 800 US adults' TikTok feeds: female users received ~11% more content about Harris than men did, and saw 40% more Harris campaign videos than men — When we asked Post readers to send us their TikTok viewing histories, we found distinct differences in political news shown to men and women.
The US fines GlobalFoundries $500K and says it sent 74 shipments worth $17.1M to SJ Semiconductor, an affiliate of SMIC, without seeking a license (Reuters)
Reuters:
The US fines GlobalFoundries $500K and says it sent 74 shipments worth $17.1M to SJ Semiconductor, an affiliate of SMIC, without seeking a license — The U.S. said on Friday it imposed a $500,000 penalty on New York-based GlobalFoundries (GFS.O), the world's third-largest contract chipmaker …
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)
Sarah Kessler / New York Times:
Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more — Kay Koplovitz still remembers her first negotiation. Her family was moving from one suburb of Milwaukee to another in the middle …
Sources: the production of a cheaper version of Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027; Apple's only new headset in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an M5 chip (@mingchikuo)
@mingchikuo:
Sources: the production of a cheaper version of Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027; Apple's only new headset in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an M5 chip — As I understand it, production of the cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027 for a while now. This means Apple's only new head-mounted display device in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an upgraded M5 processor. I think what really drove Apple to delay the cheaper
Sources: iOS 18.2 may arrive during the week of December 2; thoughts on the Mac mini as a gaming device, the Pixelmator deal, Q4 earnings, and Peloton's new CEO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: iOS 18.2 may arrive during the week of December 2; thoughts on the Mac mini as a gaming device, the Pixelmator deal, Q4 earnings, and Peloton's new CEO — The new Mac mini could become Apple's long-awaited answer to the PlayStation and Xbox. Also: The company's next AI features …
An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, into a source of dispassionate statistics for US voters (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Financial Times)
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, into a source of dispassionate statistics for US voters — Former Microsoft boss seeks to build better democracy with data — Elon Musk has used his ownership of X to promote Donald Trump's re-election as …
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Amazon's plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users actually want and reduce the awkward syntax needed to use Skills (David Pierce/The Verge)
David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon's plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users actually want and reduce the awkward syntax needed to use Skills — Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away.
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the company's AI spending spree (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the company's AI spending spree — Amy Hood is at the center of Microsoft's bet-the-company dive into AI
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP "probably will" try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may "further streamline" the bill (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may “further streamline” the bill — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that Republicans “probably will” try to repeal legislation …
A Chainalysis study based on digital wallet use data from January 1, 2024 to October 8, 2024 suggests Tether's USDT has gained traction in EMEA time zones (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A Chainalysis study based on digital wallet use data from January 1, 2024 to October 8, 2024 suggests Tether's USDT has gained traction in EMEA time zones — - Some data signal USDT activity moved toward EMEA time zones — US officials are reportedly stepping up probes into the token
Friday, November 1, 2024
Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took a 20% ownership stake worth ~$400M, and has committed another $1.1B to expand satellite service capacity (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took a 20% ownership stake worth ~$400M, and has committed another $1.1B to expand satellite service capacity — Satellite services provider GlobalStar today disclosed an expansion of its deal with Apple. Apple will commit an additional $1.1 billion …
Nvidia closed up 2.9% at $139.93, hitting a $3.43T market cap and surpassing Apple at $3.38T and Microsoft at $3.06T; NVDA is up 850% since the end of 2022 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg : Nvidia closed up 2.9% at $139.93, hitting a $3.43T market cap and surpassing Apple at $3.38T and Microsoft ...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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