Kevin Collier / NBC News:
FCC’s connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of Sept. 30, 370 of North Carolina’s 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power — In some counties, fewer than 10% of all cellphone service sites are fully functioning. — Some of the victims of Hurricane Helene are cut off from the outside world.
Google starts construction of a new $2B data center in Malaysia, says its investments would create 26,500 jobs and contribute $3B+ to Malaysian economy by 2030 (Rozanna Latiff/Reuters)
Rozanna Latiff / Reuters:
Google starts construction of a new $2B data center in Malaysia, says its investments would create 26,500 jobs and contribute $3B+ to Malaysian economy by 2030 — Google (GOOGL.O) said on Tuesday its investments in Malaysia would create 26,500 jobs and contribute more than $3 billion …
YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made-up closed license on it (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
YC-backed PearAI gets criticism for cloning another AI coding editor covered under the Apache license and applying its own made-up closed license on it — A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy.
A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC’s lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren’t immediately clear (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of FTC’s lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren’t immediately clear — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) won partial dismissal of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit accusing it of maintaining illegal monopolies …
MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM 1B, 3B, and 40B MoE, and claims they achieve “state-of-the-art performance at every scale” (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM 1B, 3B, and 40B MoE, and claims they achieve “state-of-the-art performance at every scale” — Liquid AI, a startup co-founded by former researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) …
Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order Epic won in its suit (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Apple asks a judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order Epic won in its suit — Apple (AAPL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out or narrow a decision governing its lucrative App Store, saying …
Filing: UAE-based G42 accounted for 87% of Cerebras’ H1 2024 revenue and has committed to buy $335M worth of its stock by April 2025, giving G42 a 5%+ stake (New York Times)
New York Times:
Filing: UAE-based G42 accounted for 87% of Cerebras’ H1 2024 revenue and has committed to buy $335M worth of its stock by April 2025, giving G42 a 5%+ stake — Cerebras makes a chip that is 56 times the size of a chip commonly used for artificial intelligence, with the potential to crunch data …
Notes on Google NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)
Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog:
Notes on Google NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective — Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now.
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 (CNBC)
CNBC:
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 — Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering …
Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI — Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.
