Sunday, November 10, 2024

Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights a shift towards a "post-truth" online landscape across the political spectrum (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)

Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights a shift towards a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum  —  Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism



Apple's future growth may come from several new Watch- or iPad-sized bets; visionOS 2.2 ultrawide Mac display option may be the Vision Pro's first killer app (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's future growth may come from several new Watch- or iPad-sized bets; visionOS 2.2 ultrawide Mac display option may be the Vision Pro's first killer app  —  Apple may never find another product with as much revenue potential as the iPhone, but it can still thrive with several new Apple Watch- or iPad-level businesses.



Intel's Robert Hallock admits "our wounds with Arrow Lake not hitting the performance we projected were self-inflicted" and promises fixes for performance gains (Zak Killian/HotHardware)

Zak Killian / HotHardware:
Intel's Robert Hallock admits “our wounds with Arrow Lake not hitting the performance we projected were self-inflicted” and promises fixes for performance gains  —  Speaking plainly, Intel's recently-launched Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs, code-named “Arrow Lake” …



A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M (Zachary Small/New York Times)

Zachary Small / New York Times:
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M  —  The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.



Saturday, November 9, 2024

FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Zuckerberg's FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF's "investments" as part of his "campaign of influence-buying" in 2022 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Zuckerberg's FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF's “investments” as part of his “campaign of influence-buying” in 2022  —  - Lawsuit says $67 million was invested into Skybridge endeavors  — FTX Says investments conveyed ‘little to no benefit’



The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association says Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track to increase 22% YoY to a record $165B in 2024 on AI demand (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association says Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track to increase 22% YoY to a record $165B in 2024 on AI demand  —  HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track for a 22% increase this year to a record 5.3 trillion New Taiwan dollars …



Analysis: US private construction spending on data centers grew to ~$30B/year, over 2x the amount in late 2022; global spending is on track to reach $250B/year (Ben Holland/Bloomberg)

Ben Holland / Bloomberg:
Analysis: US private construction spending on data centers grew to ~$30B/year, over 2x the amount in late 2022; global spending is on track to reach $250B/year  —  US companies are plowing money into building data centers as they race to get ahead in artificial intelligence.



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)

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.



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.



Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force that creates boom towns (New York Times)

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...