Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FBI arrests and charges two people in Miami over a conspiracy to steal and launder 4,100+ bitcoin, worth $230M+, using crypto exchanges and mixing services — Two suspects were arrested in Miami this week and charged with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million …
Legacy carmakers struggle to keep pace as the focus shifts from engines to computing power; only Ford, GM, and BMW are in Gartner’s digital performance top 10 (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Legacy carmakers struggle to keep pace as the focus shifts from engines to computing power; only Ford, GM, and BMW are in Gartner’s digital performance top 10 — Legacy carmakers have struggled to keep pace as the focus has turned from the engine to computing power
AI copilots are evolving into AI agents designed to take actions on behalf of users, as business software companies experiment with ways to sell generative AI (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
AI copilots are evolving into AI agents designed to take actions on behalf of users, as business software companies experiment with ways to sell generative AI — Microsoft, Salesforce and Workday latest to centre their plans on ‘AI agents’ as technology advances
Behind Bot Farm Corporation, a Siberia-based operation that raked in millions of dollars by deploying advanced poker-playing AI software across gambling sites (Kit Chellel/Bloomberg)
Kit Chellel / Bloomberg:
Behind Bot Farm Corporation, a Siberia-based operation that raked in millions of dollars by deploying advanced poker-playing AI software across gambling sites — # How a card-playing # Siberian AI outsmarted # the world’s brightest — # researchers and # raked in millions
In an event that raised $27M, Kamala Harris vowed to help grow investments in AI and crypto, her first comments on crypto as the Democratic presidential nominee (Jennifer Epstein/Bloomberg)
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
In an event that raised $27M, Kamala Harris vowed to help grow investments in AI and crypto, her first comments on crypto as the Democratic presidential nominee — – Vice president says she’ll encourage ‘innovative technologies’ — Fundraiser at Cipriani Wall Street venue raises $27 million
Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which hires contractors to do data labeling tasks, as he looks to expand to higher-margin AI tools to sustain growth (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which hires contractors to do data labeling tasks, as he looks to expand to higher-margin AI tools to sustain growth — Alexandr Wang became one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires by building a sprawling army of more than 100,000 contractors …
Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel — – Investment firm offered equity-like investment in chipmaker — Move comes as rival Qualcomm makes approach about takeover … The alternative asset manager has indicated …
A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving force of French AI and ByteDance’s newest board member, who believes Europe should pursue homegrown AI (Morgan Meaker/Wired)
Morgan Meaker / Wired:
A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving force of French AI and ByteDance’s newest board member, who believes Europe should pursue homegrown AI — The TikTok owner’s newest board member revels in challenging the establishment. … I wait to meet Xavier Niel in a room that feels fitting for one of France’s richest men.
An analysis shows that at least 26 US states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications (Ivana Saric/Axios)
Ivana Saric / Axios:
An analysis shows that at least 26 US states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications — – There have already been instances of generative AI being “used to confuse – and even suppress – voters,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told Axios in an email.
Sources: TSMC and Samsung execs have visited the UAE and are considering building chip factories funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TSMC and Samsung execs have visited the UAE and are considering building chip factories funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala — Potential projects in the United Arab Emirates could be worth more than $100 billion, though major hurdles remain
