Christiaan Hetzner / Fortune:
Three Nvidia customers spent a collective $12.6B in Q3, when it had a total revenue of $35.1B; each of them spent $10B+ in the nine months to October — Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t have any real competition in the market for AI training chips. — MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN—RITZAU SCANPIX/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
The EU closes a four-year long investigation into Apple’s rules for e-book and audiobook app developers after the complainant withdrew its complaint (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU closes a four-year long investigation into Apple’s rules for e-book and audiobook app developers after the complainant withdrew its complaint — EU antitrust regulators on Friday closed a four-year long investigation into Apple’s (AAPL.O) rules for competing e-book and audiobook apps developers …
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyberattacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyberattacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks — Big Tech group’s president calls on new US administration to take tougher approach on state-sponsored cyber attacks
A UK CMA report finds that Apple’s policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
A UK CMA report finds that Apple’s policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems — Apple’s restrictions on mobile browsers are limiting innovation and holding back new features that could benefit iPhone users …
Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia plans its Tokyo Stock Exchange debut on December 18 and sets its indicative IPO price at about $9 per share to raise ~$180M (Yuki Furukawa/Bloomberg)
Yuki Furukawa / Bloomberg:
Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia plans its Tokyo Stock Exchange debut on December 18 and sets its indicative IPO price at about $9 per share to raise ~$180M — – Former Toshiba memory unit nears listing after multiple delays — Company needs to invest more to catch up to Samsung in NAND
Q&A with Sam Liang, CEO of AI transcription app Otter.ai that claims to have ~20M users, on plans to create personalized AI avatars for online meetings and more (Elaine Moore/Financial Times)
Elaine Moore / Financial Times:
Q&A with Sam Liang, CEO of AI transcription app Otter.ai that claims to have ~20M users, on plans to create personalized AI avatars for online meetings and more — Co-founder of transcription start-up reckons we can even let avatars take our place in work interactions
