Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after shelling out billions to acquire US users, Temu is now focusing more on acquiring users in Europe and elsewhere, following TikTok’s US issues — App looks to reduce reliance on American shoppers as growth slows and scrutiny of TikTok grows — The bargain app Temu …
Google says Project Starline, its 3D video conferencing platform first unveiled at 2021’s Google I/O, will ship in 2025 with HP as a launch partner (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google says Project Starline, its 3D video conferencing platform first unveiled at 2021’s Google I/O, will ship in 2025 with HP as a launch partner — In 2021, Google kicked off work on Project Starline, a corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging …
Q&A with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen on running Adobe since 2007, new AI features, AI investments, Firefly, monetizing AI, copyright, AI misuse, PDFs, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen on running Adobe since 2007, new AI features, AI investments, Firefly, monetizing AI, copyright, AI misuse, PDFs, and more — The tech and the consumers both might not be quite ready yet, but he’s betting big on an AI future.
Google Pixel 8a review: 120Hz OLED display, strong battery life, excellent cameras, and great value at $499+, but slow wireless charging and thick bezels (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
Sam Rutherford / Engadget:
Google Pixel 8a review: 120Hz OLED display, strong battery life, excellent cameras, and great value at $499+, but slow wireless charging and thick bezels — The company didn’t mess with its winning formula for the A-series, delivering another great handset for $499. — Senior Writer, Reviews
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon 2 11B, an open-source LLM to compete with Llama and Gemini that supports five European languages (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon 2 11B, an open-source LLM to compete with Llama and Gemini that supports five European languages — – Model shows UAE is a “serious player” in AI, official says — Abu Dhabi plans to commercialize Falcon with new unit AI71
Sources: in recent months, China asked ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and others to cut back on Nvidia purchases in favor of chips made by local companies (Qianer Liu/The Information)
Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: in recent months, China asked ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and others to cut back on Nvidia purchases in favor of chips made by local companies — Chinese authorities have a message for the local tech industry: Buy Chinese. — Officials with government agencies in recent months …
The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Amazon’s Zoox after two automated SUVs braked unexpectedly, both causing collisions with motorcyclists (Keith Laing/Bloomberg)
Keith Laing / Bloomberg:
The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Amazon’s Zoox after two automated SUVs braked unexpectedly, both causing collisions with motorcyclists — – Bikers rear-ended Zoox SUVs that suddenly, unexpectedly braked — US agency estimates 500 vehicles are subject to investigation
Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer that cost £225M and ranks 129th on the Top500 list, comes online; the system will contain 5,448 Nvidia GH200 chips (Charlotte Trueman/DatacenterDynamics)
Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics:
Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer that cost £225M and ranks 129th on the Top500 list, comes online; the system will contain 5,448 Nvidia GH200 chips — Ranks second for energy efficiency on Green500 list — The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI, has come online.
Top500: the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, not yet fully operational, came second behind the AMD-powered Frontier, but did come top in an AI benchmark (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)
Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Top500: the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, not yet fully operational, came second behind the AMD-powered Frontier, but did come top in an AI benchmark — Aurora faces stability issues from hardware failures, cooling malfunctions, and operational errors.
Sources: Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi is finalizing plans to float on the London stock market this month in a deal that could value the company at up to £500M (The Sunday Times)
The Sunday Times:
Sources: Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi is finalizing plans to float on the London stock market this month in a deal that could value the company at up to £500M — The Cambridge business sells cheap, credit-card-sized computers and was originally set up to help get children into coding
