Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia says Jetson Thor, a computer first unveiled in March 2024 and designed for testing humanoid robot software, will be available in the first half of 2025 — The company is targeting a fragmented market of robot makers — Nvidia is set to bring its new technology for powering humanoid robots …
Sources: the UK Treasury is planning to introduce legislation on stablecoins and staking; the FCA says it plans to publish a crypto regulatory roadmap “shortly” (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: the UK Treasury is planning to introduce legislation on stablecoins and staking; the FCA says it plans to publish a crypto regulatory roadmap “shortly” — – Government to introduce legislation on stablecoins, staking — UK faces industry pressure for clarity as US, EU set pace
Researchers detail RoboPAIR, an algorithm that is designed to induce robots, relying on LLMs for their inputs, to ignore models’ safeguards without exception (Charles Q. Choi/IEEE Spectrum)
Charles Q. Choi / IEEE Spectrum:
Researchers detail RoboPAIR, an algorithm that is designed to induce robots, relying on LLMs for their inputs, to ignore models’ safeguards without exception — Researchers induced bots to ignore their safeguards without exception — Charles Q. Choi is a Contributing Editor for IEEE Spectrum.
Filing: FTX co-founder Gary Wang, due for sentencing on Nov. 20, built “tools” to help the US government detect potential fraud in the stock and crypto markets (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg)
Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg:
Filing: FTX co-founder Gary Wang, due for sentencing on Nov. 20, built “tools” to help the US government detect potential fraud in the stock and crypto markets — – Prosecutors said the Wang offered ‘outstanding’ cooperation — Much like his former FTX colleagues …
The ASP of high-end AI chips from Nvidia and others is ~5x more than that of conventional memory chips, resulting in a winner-takes-all trend in the chip sector (June Yoon/Financial Times)
June Yoon / Financial Times:
The ASP of high-end AI chips from Nvidia and others is ~5x more than that of conventional memory chips, resulting in a winner-takes-all trend in the chip sector — If you can’t beat it, join the US company’s supply chain — Twenty-five years ago, Intel made history by becoming …
Sources: Thrive Capital is in talks to invest ~$1B in analytics software maker Databricks at a ~$55B valuation; PitchBook: DataBricks has raised $4B+ so far (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Thrive Capital is in talks to invest ~$1B in analytics software maker Databricks at a ~$55B valuation; PitchBook: DataBricks has raised $4B+ so far — – Software startup tender offer to value company at $55 billion — Snowflake competitor has tapped private markets to delay IPO
Google says real-time protections against scam calls and malicious apps are rolling out on Pixel 6 or newer devices and coming soon to more Android phones (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says real-time protections against scam calls and malicious apps are rolling out on Pixel 6 or newer devices and coming soon to more Android phones — After demoing at I/O 2024 in May, Google is rolling out real-time Scam Detection for phone calls on Pixel devices.
Australia plans to enact laws imposing a “digital duty of care” on big tech, which would make companies liable for citizens’ safety online (Nicole Hegarty/ABC)
Nicole Hegarty / ABC:
Australia plans to enact laws imposing a “digital duty of care” on big tech, which would make companies liable for citizens’ safety online — In short: — Online platforms would be legally responsible for keeping Australians safe online under new Digital Duty of Care laws.
UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking £3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked ~40M UK users into iCloud services (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking £3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked ~40M UK users into iCloud services — U.K. consumer rights group ‘Which?’ is filing a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf of some 40 million users …
DeepL, which was valued at $2B in May 2024, debuts DeepL Voice to give users real-time text translations of others speaking in one of 13 different languages (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
DeepL, which was valued at $2B in May 2024, debuts DeepL Voice to give users real-time text translations of others speaking in one of 13 different languages — DeepL has made a name for itself with online text translation it claims is more nuanced and precise than services from the likes of Google …
