Sources: Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced AI chip, the Ascend 910C, in Q1 2025, even as it struggles to make enough chips due to US curbs (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

Fanny Potkin / Reuters:
Sources: Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced AI chip, the Ascend 910C, in Q1 2025, even as it struggles to make enough chips due to US curbs  —  China’s Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2025 …

Q&A with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about the role of the tech industry in Trump’s administration, AI, the future of cybersecurity, and more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Q&A with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about the role of the tech industry in Trump’s administration, AI, the future of cybersecurity, and more  —  The Scene  —  While Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and his firm are more under the radar than Silicon Valley’s consumer companies …

Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search’s dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search’s dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search  —  Despite shared concerns about Google’s power, critics of the company and former executives express little agreement on what …

London-based Lighthouse, which offers tools to help hotels analyze market demand and rates, raised a ~$370M Series C led by KKR, sources say at a $1B+ valuation (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg:
London-based Lighthouse, which offers tools to help hotels analyze market demand and rates, raised a ~$370M Series C led by KKR, sources say at a $1B+ valuation  —  Lighthouse, a startup that helps hotels analyze market demand and rates, has raised about $370 million in a funding round led by private equity firm KKR & Co.

Google says the US DOJ’s “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court’s decision”, would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US’ global tech leadership (Kent Walker/The Keyword)

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the US DOJ’s “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court’s decision”, would hurt US consumers and jeopardize US’ global tech leadership  —  President, Global Affairs & Chief Legal Officer, Google & Alphabet  —  As part of its lawsuit over how we distribute Search …

A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor’s offices, and other places (Eileen Guo/MIT Technology Review)

Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:
A look at biometric ID company Clear, as it works to expand its face-based line-cutting service at retailers, banks, doctor’s offices, and other places  —  If you’ve ever been through a large US airport, you’re probably at least vaguely aware of Clear.  Maybe your interest (or irritation) …

Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI’s o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia’s business moving forward (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI’s o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia’s business moving forward  —  Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the last quarter, the company reported on Wednesday …

A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy  —  Scientists are drowning in data.  With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle …

Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google’s search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press)

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google’s search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices  —  U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through …