How US SMB owners, celebrities, and retailers on TikTok are using livestreaming to boost their sales one year after TikTok Shop's launch in the country — From noon until midnight, Aaliyah Arnold sold products from her beauty brand, BossUp Cosmetics, during a TikTok livestream filmed in Culver City last month.
The crypto industry's impact on the 2024 US elections shows that crypto is a perfect anti-establishment tech for the turbulence and distrust of the 2020s — An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age — For years, crypto skeptics have asked, What is this for?
A deep dive into AI scaling laws, including an outline of the old pre-training trends as well as the new scaling trends for post-training and inference time — In our pursuit of becoming a better full service research firm, we've moved off Substack. For any questions please read https://ift.tt/hSPd71Q #substack
A look at the relationship between Tether and Trump transition co-Chair Howard Lutnick, who boasted of Cantor Fitzgerald handling $10B in redemptions in 2022 — Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries
OpenAI rolls out Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds new features, including support for Python and more text pasting — OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features …
TeamViewer says it plans to buy 1E, which makes automated remediation software, from Carlyle for $720M, closing in early 2025, its biggest ever acquisition — - German remote-working software firm's biggest ever acquisition — Transaction will help expand company's North America footprint
Microsoft unveils a new data center design that aims to use zero water, down from the 125M litres per year a typical center uses, rolling out since August 2024 — New design will use no water to cool the facilities' servers and chips. — Microsoft Corp., trying to mitigate the climate impact …
Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia set its IPO price at ~$9.70, the middle of the range, raising ~$800M and valuing it at ~$5.2B, ahead of a December 18 listing — Bain Capital-backed chipmaker Kioxia's (285A.T) initial public offering has raised 120 billion yen ($800 million) …
A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among a few companies, and utopian questions over an alternative version of AI — Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where's the utopian vision for what it could be? — With responses from Brian Eno …
Sources: Apple is working with Sony to add support for PlayStation VR2 controllers in visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K units of the Vision Pro — Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro. Also: Apple has a three-year road map …
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launches a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials — The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM — ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …
How the US-China fallout is fueling the rise of boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as companies and governments rush to develop AI and establish chipmaking hubs — An accelerating influx of tech investment is transforming local economies in Malaysia and Vietnam.
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant — An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
OpenAI's o1 is a notable departure from older models, representing the industry's shift to reasoning models to overcome the limits of prediction-based AI — This week, openai launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman, called “the smartest model in the world”—a generative-AI program whose capabilities …
Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June — Paytm has agreed to sell its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2 million, as the Indian firm sheds …
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...
