Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary is one of the investors backing the Stratos Project, a colossal data center in Utah. It sounds like he has a few fans in the comments section.
Electric Mayhem:
Kevin O’Leary is the Donald Trump of Mark Cubans.
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Bambu was set to become the Apple of 3D printers. Then it DM’d the wrong person.
The rocket company says it’s ‘highly dependent’ on Musk’s leadership. And that his other companies are possible competitors.
“Gorgon Halo” is the successor to the Strix Halo that powered unprecedented mini-PC, tablet, and gaming handheld designs last year. Now with even more RAM for AI, coming Q3. Yes, that’s going to cost in this economy. Meanwhile, AMD’s own mini-PC with Strix Halo will open pre-orders in June for $3,999, exclusively at Micro Center.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis made a bold claim at this year’s I/O keynote. Not so fast!
I was on Vox’s Today, Explained podcast to talk about why our feeds are just clips now — what we’re calling “the clippening” of content online. You’ve probably seen these videos of podcasts, musicians, TV shows, livestreams and more. Underneath it all is an economy of clipping companies pumping out mountains of paid content.
Nvidia used to break out data center compute, networking, gaming, professional visualization, automotive, and more. But now that AI has become the Nvidia business and even networking is bigger than gaming, it’s throwing PCs, game consoles, workstations, robots, cars, and cellular base stations all into a new “Edge Computing” catch-all category.
The company reported record overall revenue of $81.6 billion and record data center revenue of $75.2 billion, driven by continued demand for its chips in AI data centers.
Nvidia says its next-generation Vera Rubin AI chip is “on track for the second half of this year, starting in Q3,” but noted that PC sales are down due to the RAM shortage and price hikes.
[NVIDIA Newsroom]
But the nonprofit Public Knowledge argues its changes could make the National Broadband Map less effective. Public Knowledge broadband policy director Alisa Valentin:
Today, the Commission is once again invoking the term ‘streamlining’ as justification for creating a permission structure that allows providers to evade accountability while consumers experience the consequences of distorted broadband maps.
A judge awarded Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, and other major publishers with the judgment after Anna’s Archive — an open-source library and pirate activist group — didn’t respond to their copyright lawsuit.
Just like with the $322 million judgment awarded to Spotify and major music labels, collecting damages from anonymous online operators isn’t easy.
A Brooklyn courthouse unsealed criminal complaints against two men who allegedly posted “thousands” of nonconsensual intimate AI deepfakes, according to the US Attorney’s Office. The Take It Down Act’s criminal prohibitions have been in place for a year, but platforms’ obligation to remove such deepfakes just came into force yesterday.
[U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York]
According to a memo seen by Reuters, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi said that the cuts will help the company focus on bets like adding AI into its services. The cuts represent about 17 percent of Intuit’s staff.
I’m ashamed to say I did poorly — only three out of 10 correct — but I’m glad I took it, it’s an interesting quiz. Heads up that it might be behind a paywall, though.
Update: Noted the potential paywall.
[The Wall Street Journal]
