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IoT Analytics: Nvidia, whose Q1 data center revenue grew 427% YoY to $22.6B, has 90%+ market share for data center GPUs, as Intel and AMD scrap for second place — Chipmakers eye AI ‘inferencing’ and PCs as new battlegrounds — PALO ALTO, California — Nvidia is on a roll …
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to build and package chips in the same $32B fab in Hokkaido, setting the company apart from TSMC, Intel, and Samsung (Anton Shilov/AnandTech)
Anton Shilov / AnandTech:
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to build and package chips in the same $32B fab in Hokkaido, setting the company apart from TSMC, Intel, and Samsung — To say that the global foundry market is booming right now would be an understatement. Demand for leading-edge process technologies driven …
SoftBank’s outlay for AI investments has more than doubled to $8.9B in the 12 months since Masayoshi Son said the firm was ready to go on the “counteroffensive” (David Keohane/Financial Times)
David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank’s outlay for AI investments has more than doubled to $8.9B in the 12 months since Masayoshi Son said the firm was ready to go on the “counteroffensive” — Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching finances
LLMs aren’t sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can’t have subjective experiences of such states (TIME)
TIME:
LLMs aren’t sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can’t have subjective experiences of such states — Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human …
Filings: US pharmaceutical company Cencora notified ~500K individuals since learning about a data breach in February 2024 that exposed health diagnoses and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Filings: US pharmaceutical company Cencora notified ~500K individuals since learning about a data breach in February 2024 that exposed health diagnoses and more — U.S. pharmaceutical giant Cencora says it is notifying affected individuals that their personal and highly sensitive medical information …
A significant amount of illicit crypto activity still remains in China, highlighting the continuing use of cryptocurrencies despite Beijing’s digital asset ban (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A significant amount of illicit crypto activity still remains in China, highlighting the continuing use of cryptocurrencies despite Beijing’s digital asset ban — – Crypto tied to billions of dollars in underground transactions — Cases are further signs of holes in China’s digital-asset ban
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2 (Wes Davis/The Verge)
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2 — The landmark decision may be the first time a jury has agreed that a cheat creator violated a gaming company’s copyrights.
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties — Despite Meta’s promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs (Christine Mui/Politico)
Christine Mui / Politico:
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs — The Commerce Department was expecting to hand out new federal money to high-tech research. Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead.
How SLMs like Microsoft’s Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired:
How SLMs like Microsoft’s Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private — Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts.
