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
A judge rules Parag Agrawal and other former Twitter executives can proceed with claims that Elon Musk cheated them out of severance pay by terminating them (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
A judge rules Parag Agrawal and other former Twitter executives can proceed with claims that Elon Musk cheated them out of severance pay by terminating them — A judge ruled late Friday that former chief executive officer Parag Agrawal and other high-ranking officers can proceed with claims …
Filing: US regulators block a proposal related to AWS’ deal to buy nuclear power for data centers in Pennsylvania over grid reliability and other concerns (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Filing: US regulators block a proposal related to AWS’ deal to buy nuclear power for data centers in Pennsylvania over grid reliability and other concerns — U.S. energy regulators on Friday rejected a proposal related to Amazon Web Services’ deal to buy nuclear power for several data centers …
Intel scraps forecast of selling $500M+ worth of Gaudi AI accelerator chips in 2024, with CEO Pat Gelsinger citing chip transition and slower uptake to software (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Intel scraps forecast of selling $500M+ worth of Gaudi AI accelerator chips in 2024, with CEO Pat Gelsinger citing chip transition and slower uptake to software — Intel’s (INTC.O) upbeat revenue projections on Thursday masked a sore point for the embattled company: chips touted …
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account’s username had 52+ characters (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024 that, under specific conditions, let users log in with any password if the account’s username had 52+ characters — The vulnerability is fixed now, but Okta said that for three months it could’ve been used to access accounts with usernames stretching at least 52 characters long.
An interview with EssilorLuxottica CEO Francesco Milleri on the Meta partnership, smart glasses replacing smartphones, and more, as the firm is valued at €100B (Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli/Financial Times)
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli / Financial Times:
An interview with EssilorLuxottica CEO Francesco Milleri on the Meta partnership, smart glasses replacing smartphones, and more, as the firm is valued at €100B — Eyewear giant chief Francesco Milleri says wearable technology developed with Meta will fuel growth
Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas for AI startups, saying “regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs” (Microsoft)
Microsoft:
Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas for AI startups, saying “regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs” — Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft; Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President, Microsoft, Marc Andreessen …
Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on November 8, after Amazon replaced Walgreens in February; Intel joined the index in 1999 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on November 8, after Amazon replaced Walgreens in February; Intel joined the index in 1999 — – Intel, Dow Inc. are set to leave the 30-member index — Nvidia up 3.2% in post-market trading, while Intel is down 2%
Polymarket user Fredi9999, a self-described Frenchman, says he bet $30M+ on Trump after analyzing polls; he can’t exit his wagers without crashing the market (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:
Polymarket user Fredi9999, a self-described Frenchman, says he bet $30M+ on Trump after analyzing polls; he can’t exit his wagers without crashing the market — Self-described French trader says he bet more than $30 million on U.S. election after analyzing polls
Google researchers detail Project Big Sleep, formerly Project Naptime, which used an AI agent to discover a previously unknown and exploitable bug in SQLite (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Google researchers detail Project Big Sleep, formerly Project Naptime, which used an AI agent to discover a previously unknown and exploitable bug in SQLite — The company’s experimental AI agent finds a previously unknown and exploitable software bug in SQLite, an open-source database engine.
