Google Maps may soon help you find nearby EV charging stations; here’s how

Google Maps update for Android introduces EV charging station filter compatible with Plug and Charge service, simplifying the charging process. Google is catching up with dedicated EV service apps, making EV ownership easier. https://ift.tt/dtLj6Pf

Google says the company will "pause the image generation of people" via Gemini "and will re-release an improved version soon" while working to fix its "issues" (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Google says the company will “pause the image generation of people” via Gemini “and will re-release an improved version soon” while working to fix its “issues”  —  “We're already working to address recent issues with Gemini's image generation feature,” Google said in a post on X on Thursday.

Apple says the iPhone 15 lineup can retain 80% of its original battery capacity after 1,000 charge cycles, up from its original estimate of 500 charge cycles (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple says the iPhone 15 lineup can retain 80% of its original battery capacity after 1,000 charge cycles, up from its original estimate of 500 charge cycles  —  In addition to changes to the Battery Health settings in iOS 17.4, Apple has more iPhone battery news to share today.

Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of chipmaking (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of chipmaking  —  The world's largest memory maker sold about 1.58 million shares, or 0.4%, of ASML, according to its most recent quarterly financial report filed to regulators.

A profile of ElevenLabs, whose AI voice cloning tech is being used to spoof politicians; five of ElevenLabs' 40 employees are dedicated to trust and safety (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:
A profile of ElevenLabs, whose AI voice cloning tech is being used to spoof politicians; five of ElevenLabs' 40 employees are dedicated to trust and safety  —  ElevenLabs' technology is already being used to spoof political candidates and promote scammy products.

Steam Annual Summary for 2023: more than 500 games earned $3M+ in gross revenue for the first time ever, concurrent users reached a record 33M, and more (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)

Chris Kerr / Game Developer:
Steam Annual Summary for 2023: more than 500 games earned $3M+ in gross revenue for the first time ever, concurrent users reached a record 33M, and more  —  More than 500 games earned over $3 million in gross revenue on Steam in 2023 for the first time ever.

Recogni, which designs AI chips for autonomous vehicles, raised a $102M Series C led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint, taking its total funding to $175M (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg:
Recogni, which designs AI chips for autonomous vehicles, raised a $102M Series C led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint, taking its total funding to $175M  —  - Startup making accelerator chip for developing AI models  — Previously focused on building tools for autonomous vehicles

Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, currently undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, currently undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities  —  In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …

FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting "offensive weapons" into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a "fever pitch" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting “offensive weapons” into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a “fever pitch”  —  Christopher Wray says Beijing's hacking operations had reached a ‘fever pitch’

Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X  —  The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …

The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act to build a new fab in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant, plus $1.6B in loans (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act to build a new fab in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant, plus $1.6B in loans  —  The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.

Hands-on with Khan Academy's ChatGPT-powered AI tutoring bot Khanmigo, which frequently makes basic arithmetic errors, as Khan Academy works to improve accuracy (Matt Barnum/Wall Street Journal)

Matt Barnum / Wall Street Journal:
Hands-on with Khan Academy's ChatGPT-powered AI tutoring bot Khanmigo, which frequently makes basic arithmetic errors, as Khan Academy works to improve accuracy  —  Khanmigo, a ChatGPT-powered bot, made frequent calculation errors during a Journal reporter's test

Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; in-store demo conversion rate is as high as 10% to 15% (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; in-store demo conversion rate is as high as 10% to 15%  —  The Apple Vision Pro has now been available for two weeks — and some of Apple's most dedicated customers are returning the device to get back their $3,500.

A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Richard Nieva / Forbes:
A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams  —  The trillion-dollar chipmaker has done over two dozen deals, through its Nventures investing arm and corporate development team.

How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023 (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023  —  After a decade of building the future, tech's new guard is going back to the American past — spurring a funding frenzy in defense technology