MK Manoylov / The Block:
Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M on November 5 to $184.16M by November 8, highlighting the platform's reliance on political betting — - Open interest on Polymarket soared to $510.95 million by Nov. 5 and subsequently fell to $184.16 million by Nov. 8, The Block's data shows.
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Saturday, November 9, 2024
Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M on November 5 to $184.16M by November 8, highlighting the platform's reliance on political betting (MK Manoylov/The Block)
Friday, November 8, 2024
With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump's orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump's orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government — With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump-world, tech leaders on the right see an opportunity to bring a start-up ethos to the federal government.
Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the wide-angle lens in the high-end iPhone 18 in 2026 to a variable aperture camera (Ming-Chi Kuo)
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: Apple plans to upgrade the wide-angle lens in the high-end iPhone 18 in 2026 to a variable aperture camera — Key Growth Drivers for Sunny Optical's Apple Orders in 2025-2026: — 1. Lens Supply Allocation to Rebound Significantly from ~5% in 2024 to 15-20% in 2025
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: TSMC told Chinese customers it would no longer manufacture AI chips at advanced process nodes of 7nm or smaller as of this coming Monday — World's biggest contract chipmaker acts to ensure it is in line with US restrictions on Chinese access to latest processors
Mercury Research: AMD's desktop CPU market share, in units, grew from 19.1% in Q3 2023 to 28.7% in Q3 2024 and from 19.5% to 22.3% for mobile in the same period (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
Mercury Research: AMD's desktop CPU market share, in units, grew from 19.1% in Q3 2023 to 28.7% in Q3 2024 and from 19.5% to 22.3% for mobile in the same period — AMD's desktop CPU market share jumped nearly 10 percent in the last year, an analyst reported Thursday, on the heels …
Thursday, November 7, 2024
How doctors are pioneering the use of AI to improve outcomes for patients, including faster diagnostics, more targeted treatment, and better communication (Sarah Neville/Financial Times)
Sarah Neville / Financial Times:
How doctors are pioneering the use of AI to improve outcomes for patients, including faster diagnostics, more targeted treatment, and better communication — Faster diagnostics, more targeted treatment and better communication are among areas of healthcare already benefiting from artificial intelligence
Nintendo says it has sold 146M Switch consoles in 7.5 years, the user community has grown to 127M annual players, and Pokémon sales on Switch have reached 99M (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nintendo says it has sold 146M Switch consoles in 7.5 years, the user community has grown to 127M annual players, and Pokémon sales on Switch have reached 99M — Nintendo's executives gave a slide show that told the state of the Nintendo Switch game console.
Microsoft starts rolling out AI-powered text editing feature Rewrite in Notepad, and Generative Fill and Generative Erase features in Paint to Windows Insiders (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Microsoft starts rolling out AI-powered text editing feature Rewrite in Notepad, and Generative Fill and Generative Erase features in Paint to Windows Insiders — Microsoft is adding AI-powered text editing to Notepad, the stripped-down text editor originally introduced in 1983.
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)
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
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 …
A profile of Klarna and its CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski as it filed for a US IPO on November 13; investors hope Klarna can achieve a $150B-$200B valuation (Financial Times)
Financial Times : A profile of Klarna and its CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski as it filed for a US IPO on November 13; investors hope Klarna ...
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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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