Laila Kearney / Reuters:
Filing: US regulators rejected a proposal to let Amazon buy nuclear power for AWS data centers in Pennsylvania over energy grid reliability and other concerns — U.S. energy regulators rejected an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data center connected directly to a nuclear power plant …
Apple’s M4 Max chip scores 4,060 in single-core tests, making it the first production CPU to cross 4,000 in Geekbench 6, and scores 26,675 in multi-core tests (Hamid Ganji/Neowin)
Hamid Ganji / Neowin:
Apple’s M4 Max chip scores 4,060 in single-core tests, making it the first production CPU to cross 4,000 in Geekbench 6, and scores 26,675 in multi-core tests — After months of swirling rumors, Apple revealed its new Mac devices with updated M4 chips last week.
Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that let users leave the Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can lead to “enshittification” (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that let users leave the Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can lead to “enshittification” — – Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story. — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Amazon’s plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users actually want and reduce the awkward syntax needed to use Skills (David Pierce/The Verge)
David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon’s plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users actually want and reduce the awkward syntax needed to use Skills — Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away.
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the company’s AI spending spree (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the company’s AI spending spree — Amy Hood is at the center of Microsoft’s bet-the-company dive into AI
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may “further streamline” the bill (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may “further streamline” the bill — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that Republicans “probably will” try to repeal legislation …
A Chainalysis study based on digital wallet use data from January 1, 2024 to October 8, 2024 suggests Tether’s USDT has gained traction in EMEA time zones (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A Chainalysis study based on digital wallet use data from January 1, 2024 to October 8, 2024 suggests Tether’s USDT has gained traction in EMEA time zones — – Some data signal USDT activity moved toward EMEA time zones — US officials are reportedly stepping up probes into the token
The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad tools, and consumer spending, drove strong Q3 revenue growth for Alphabet, Meta, Snap, Reddit, and Roku (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The digital ad market, helped by US political ads, AI ad tools, and consumer spending, drove strong Q3 revenue growth for Alphabet, Meta, Snap, Reddit, and Roku — – Google’s advertising revenue jumped more than 10% year-over-year, thanks in part to election-related ad spend, especially on YouTube …
Bitcoin’s 2024 price rally masks a bleaker picture in the wider crypto market, with crypto VC investment remaining a far way off the 2021 bull market and more (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Bitcoin’s 2024 price rally masks a bleaker picture in the wider crypto market, with crypto VC investment remaining a far way off the 2021 bull market and more — – Kraken, Consensys among crypto companies cutting headcount — Crypto VC investment fell in third quarter, Galaxy report says
A look at Denmark’s sovereign AI supercomputer Gefion, which has 1,528 H100 GPUs and was built with $100M in funding from Novo Nordisk and a state-owned fund (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Denmark’s sovereign AI supercomputer Gefion, which has 1,528 H100 GPUs and was built with $100M in funding from Novo Nordisk and a state-owned fund — The world’s latest AI machine is powered by the success of two products: Nvidia’s chips and Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drugs
