Four of the top seven best-reviewed games on Metacritic in 2024, not counting remakes, are indies, with Animal Well and Balatro in the top three — Halfway through 2024, four of the top seven best-reviewed games, not counting remakes, are indies — Hi everyone.
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs — The Commerce Department was expecting to hand out new federal money to high-tech research. Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead.
How SLMs like Microsoft's Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private — Research at Microsoft shows it's possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts.
A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses — Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify misinformation.
An analysis of ChatGPT's answers to 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow: 52% of answers contain misinformation, 77% are more verbose than human answers — Not So Smart — In recent years, computer programmers have flocked to chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT to help them code …
Cohere for AI, the nonprofit research arm of AI startup Cohere, announces the open weights release of Aya 23, a family of multilingual language models — Today, Cohere for AI (C4AI), the non-profit research arm of Canadian enterprise AI startup Cohere, announced the open weights release of Aya 23 …
Google announces plans to invest nearly $350M in Flipkart, as part of a nearly $1B funding round, about $600M of which came from Walmart in 2023 — Google is investing nearly $350 million in Flipkart, becoming the latest high-profile name to back the Indian e-commerce startup.
A profile of Lin Rui-siang, a 23-year-old Taiwanese accused by the US DOJ of running a $100M+ dark-web drug market who had an alter ego as a crypto crime expert — The strange journey of Lin Rui-siang, the 23-year-old accused of running the Incognito black market, extorting his own site's users …
A Nigerian court adjourns a money laundering trial against Binance and two of its executives to June 20 because one of the defendants Tigran Gambaryan was ill — A Nigerian court on Thursday adjourned a money laundry trial against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives …
Microsoft users report a massive outage impacting Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, and more; ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo have similar issues — A massive Microsoft outage affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo.
Global foundry revenue rose 12% YoY in Q1 2024, but dropped 5% QoQ; TSMC's market share rose 1% YoY to 62%, Samsung rose 2% YoY to 13%, and SMIC rose 1% to 6% — - The foundry industry is experiencing a relatively slow recovery with 5% QoQ decline in Q1 2024, citing a softer recovery of general end market.
Microsoft and UAE-based G42 plan to build a $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya, opening in about two years, to boost computing capacity in East Africa — Project will create a Microsoft cloud region in East Africa and provide competition for Chinese companies like Huawei.
Chinese smartphone maker Honor plans to include Google's Gemini and Imagen 2, powered by Google Cloud, in upcoming devices, one of the first companies to do so — Chinese smartphone maker Honor on Wednesday became one of the first device makers to say it will bring Google's artificial intelligence features to its upcoming devices.
A review of privacy-focused /e/OS, a fully “deGoogled” OS based on the Android Open Source Project, that combines Micro G, to handle Google APIs, and LineageOS — Even if you aren't technically inclined, this privacy-first mobile operating system helps you escape surveillance capitalism.
Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi confirms plans for a London Stock Exchange IPO, aiming to raise $40M and listing in June, and reports $265.8M in 2023 revenue — - Set to sell $40 million in new shares and list on main market — Arm and Lansdowne Partners are cornerstone investors in IPO
New York Times : Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force...
