What to expect at WWDC 2024: plans to integrate AI into its apps with a new opt-in service called Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, macOS 15, visionOS 2, and more — The company will introduce ‘Apple Intelligence,’ its long-awaited push into modern AI for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Q&A with Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on running the world's foremost open source intelligence agency, AI-generated content, legal accountability, and more — Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits …
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.
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 — 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 — Monthly Tier 1 memberships will go up by $1 in July. — Twitch is joining Spotify, Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll, EA and other content services …
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 — 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 — 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 — As the AI craze continues, even the microcomputer company Raspberry Pi plans to sell an AI chip.
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 — - 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 — Zara will expand its live shopping broadcasts to the UK, Europe and the United States this year, testing a format …
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 — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex that the world's top computer manufacturers today are unveiling Nvidia Blackwell …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : Google proposes Search tweaks in Europe to comply with the DMA, including removing the map showing hotel locatio...
