Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly discovered last week that they are part of a Singapore unit — Chip design workers at Chinese tech giant ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly found out last week that they are part …
Universities have begun appointing Chief AI Officers tasked with developing curricula, promoting tech partnerships, and integrating AI into faculty workflows — Amarda Shehu was happily leading George Mason University's Institute for Digital Innovation, which promotes research in AI …
SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech — Initially for R&D use, until later this decade where it will transition to production — SK hynix and ASML early on Wednesday announced …
Sources: Nintendo repeatedly pushed back Switch 2 launch plans after game designers asked for more time, believing a focus on gameplay trumped advanced hardware — Earlier this year, Nintendo Co. was under growing pressure. It had been eight long years since the release of the original Switch …
A profile of Jumia, hailed as the “Amazon of Africa”, as CEO Francis Dufay tries to hit profitability by 2027 after scaling down its food delivery business — Six years after a high-profile listing, Jumia is still trying to prove that it can be a profitable business rather than a relic of the cheap money era
Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW+ data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month — OpenAI is seeking to build a massive new data center in India that could mark a major step forward in Asia for its Stargate …
AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt techniques to appear more prominently in AI results — OpenAI, Perplexity and Google create AI-powered features, leading brands to rethink how they sell products online
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more — Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better …
OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market — Company secures funds, targets data center interconnect market — OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in funding.
Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State — Balaji Srinivasan wants to design a new kind of nation state, and he's making a troubled megaproject a testbed for his ideas.
A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields — Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right? — The debate over whether AI …
TikTok suspends its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia, citing “increasing violence in protests” over lawmakers' pay — ByteDance's TikTok has suspended its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia following protests in the country, its spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.
Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% — Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn't expanding as quickly as it had hoped.
A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans — AI chatbots can be manipulated much in the same way that people can, according to researchers. But first... Three things to know:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access FEMA networks — An internal FEMA email obtained by Nextgov/FCW ordered all agency employees to change their passwords “due to recent cybersecurity incidents and threats.”
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal : Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903...
