Nikkei Asia:
Foxconn’s Sharp shifts focus to consumer electronics and AI after decision to exit TV display production, and is looking to sell its camera, chip device units — Japanese company also looking to sell camera, chip device units — TOKYO/TAIPEI — Japanese electronics maker Sharp said on Tuesday …
Huawei is revamping its retail strategy and aggressively opening flagship stores in China, opening four such stores between December 2023 and February 2024 (Josh Ye/Reuters)
Josh Ye / Reuters:
Huawei is revamping its retail strategy and aggressively opening flagship stores in China, opening four such stores between December 2023 and February 2024 — Huawei is revamping its retail strategy and aggressively opening flagship stores in China, with some just a stone’s throw away from Apple …
El Salvador has mined 473.5 bitcoins worth ~$29M since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, bringing its total bitcoin portfolio to ~$354M (Nelson Renteria/Reuters)
Nelson Renteria / Reuters:
El Salvador has mined 473.5 bitcoins worth ~$29M since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, bringing its total bitcoin portfolio to ~$354M — El Salvador has mined nearly 474 bitcoins since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, official data showed on Tuesday …
Eight TikTok creators sued the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing it violates their First Amendment rights (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Eight TikTok creators sued the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing it violates their First Amendment rights — The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights.
Google unveils Music AI Sandbox, a suite of music AI tools that include the ability to create short audio clips or “stems” based on text prompts (Ty Pendlebury/CNET)
Ty Pendlebury / CNET:
Google unveils Music AI Sandbox, a suite of music AI tools that include the ability to create short audio clips or “stems” based on text prompts — Producers say the AI-generated loops can make music sound ‘more human.’ — Google has unveiled a new music-making tool it calls Music AI Sandbox …
Google open sources code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming “mouse” controlled by head movement and facial gestures, to Android developers (Sheena Vasani/The Verge)
Sheena Vasani / The Verge:
Google open sources code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming “mouse” controlled by head movement and facial gestures, to Android developers — Google has announced that the code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming ‘mouse’ that you control by making faces …
Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI’s chief scientist (CNBC)
CNBC:
Ilya Sutskever says he will leave OpenAI to work on a “personally meaningful” project; Director of Research Jakub Pachocki will become OpenAI’s chief scientist — OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said Tuesday that he’s leaving the Microsoft-backed startup.
YouTube says it will comply with a Hong Kong court order to block 32 video links, after the government sought to ban the Glory to Hong Kong protest anthem (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
YouTube says it will comply with a Hong Kong court order to block 32 video links, after the government sought to ban the Glory to Hong Kong protest anthem — Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube on Tuesday said it will comply with a Hong Kong court decision and block access to 32 video links deemed to be prohibited content.
Sam Altman says Ilya Sutskever and OpenAI are going to “part ways”, and Jakub Pachocki is going to be OpenAI’s new chief scientist (Sam Altman/@sama)
Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says Ilya Sutskever and OpenAI are going to “part ways”, and Jakub Pachocki is going to be OpenAI’s new chief scientist — Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend. His brilliance and vision are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known but no less
Google rolls out a search filter, named “Web”, to show only text-based links in results (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google rolls out a search filter, named “Web”, to show only text-based links in results — Google said the filter appears on the top of the results page alongside other filters. — Chat with SearchBot — Google is rolling out a new search filter to show only text-based links in the search results.
