Joshua Robertson / TheGamer:
Ikea plans to hire 10 people to run its virtual Roblox store, including to help pick out furniture and serve meatballs in the Bistro, and will pay £13.50/hour — - Ikea is hiring 10 people to run a virtual store in Roblox, as part of a campaign to show young people the career paths available at the store.
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Thursday, June 6, 2024
Ikea plans to hire 10 people to run its virtual Roblox store, including to help pick out furniture and serve meatballs in the Bistro, and will pay £13.50/hour (Joshua Robertson/TheGamer)
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027 — - New facility begins construction in second half of 2024 — Region poised to benefit from drive to diversify from China
SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO — Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $1.5 billion.
Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price rise for US subscribers (Will Shanklin/Engadget)
Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price rise for US subscribers — Monthly Tier 1 memberships will go up by $1 in July. — Twitch is joining Spotify, Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll, EA and other content services …
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Sources and leaked documents detail YouTube's gaming leak culture, as some staff watch non-public videos and leak info; YouTube has investigated multiple staff (Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming)
Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming:
Sources and leaked documents detail YouTube's gaming leak culture, as some staff watch non-public videos and leak info; YouTube has investigated multiple staff — According to a report from 404 Media, which has allegedly obtained an internal Google database tracking six years of potential privacy …
Sources: E*Trade is considering kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its service over stock manipulation concerns; GameStop jumped 60% since Gill reappeared (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: E*Trade is considering kicking meme stock leader Keith Gill off its service over stock manipulation concerns; GameStop jumped 60% since Gill reappeared — Morgan Stanley's trading platform discusses concerns about possible manipulation in GameStop
OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23 — OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT has been down for several users across the globe for the last few hours. Many users have posted about the issue on X and Threads.
Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available "soon" for $70 (Emilia David/The Verge)
Emilia David / The Verge:
Raspberry Pi partners with chipmaker Hailo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs Hailo's Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator, available “soon” for $70 — As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.
Monday, June 3, 2024
Spotify plans to raise US prices: Premium from $10.99 to $11.99 per month, Duo from $14.99 to $16.99, and Family from $16.99 to $19.99, after a July 2023 hike (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Spotify plans to raise US prices: Premium from $10.99 to $11.99 per month, Duo from $14.99 to $16.99, and Family from $16.99 to $19.99, after a July 2023 hike — A year after Spotify first increased the price of Spotify Premium in the US, it's happening again.
FTX sells its remaining 15M Anthropic shares, netting $450M+ and taking its total haul to $1.3B from its original $500M investment, as legal costs pass $500M (Zack Abrams/The Block)
Zack Abrams / The Block:
FTX sells its remaining 15M Anthropic shares, netting $450M+ and taking its total haul to $1.3B from its original $500M investment, as legal costs pass $500M — - The FTX estate has sold its remaining shares in Anthropic, a valuable AI startup, as the total cost of the bankruptcy surpasses $500 million …
Zara plans to expand live shopping broadcasts in the UK, Europe, and the US between August and October 2024, testing a format that is wildly popular in China (Reuters)
Reuters:
Zara plans to expand live shopping broadcasts in the UK, Europe, and the US between August and October 2024, testing a format that is wildly popular in China — Zara will expand its live shopping broadcasts to the UK, Europe and the United States this year, testing a format …
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Nvidia plans to upgrade its AI accelerators annually, and announces a Blackwell Ultra chip for 2025 and a next-gen Rubin AI platform for 2026 that will use HBM4 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Nvidia plans to upgrade its AI accelerators annually, and announces a Blackwell Ultra chip for 2025 and a next-gen Rubin AI platform for 2026 that will use HBM4 — - CEO Jensen Huang reveals plans for annual upgrade cycle — Company details plans for Blackwell Ultra and subsequent chips
Jensen Huang said at Computex that Asus, Pegatron, Wistron, and others will deliver cloud, on-prem, embedded, and edge AI systems using Nvidia Blackwell GPUs (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Jensen Huang said at Computex that Asus, Pegatron, Wistron, and others will deliver cloud, on-prem, embedded, and edge AI systems using Nvidia Blackwell GPUs — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex that the world's top computer manufacturers today are unveiling Nvidia Blackwell …
An excerpt from the book The Trolls of Wall Street, which details how r/WallStreetBets fueled a movement that turned millions of young Americans into investors (Nathaniel Popper/Bloomberg)
Nathaniel Popper / Bloomberg:
An excerpt from the book The Trolls of Wall Street, which details how r/WallStreetBets fueled a movement that turned millions of young Americans into investors — An excerpt from Nathaniel Popper's forthcoming The Trolls of Wall Street. — By the end of 2011, Jaime Rogozinski, 29, had fallen into a rut.
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Sources: a16z and other investors in the fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy in early May, were aware of recordkeeping discrepancies for years (Michael Roddan/The Information)
Michael Roddan / The Information:
Sources: a16z and other investors in the fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy in early May, were aware of recordkeeping discrepancies for years — Millions of consumers who kept their savings with digital banking startups such as Yotta or Juno have lost access to their money as a result …
India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an "expanded scope" compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an “expanded scope” compared to previous initiat...
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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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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...