Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump’s transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a federal framework for autonomous vehicles — – Policy leaders are being pursued for key Musk priority — Tesla CEO, named to efficiency role, plans push on robotaxis
Sources: CISA’s director Jen Easterly and deputy director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, the day Trump will be inaugurated (Nextgov/FCW)
Nextgov/FCW:
Sources: CISA’s director Jen Easterly and deputy director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, the day Trump will be inaugurated — Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly speaks during Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2024 on February 7, 2024.
An interview with El Salvador’s top crypto regulator Juan Carlos Reyes on taking a tech-minded approach to crypto regulation, how his agency works, and more (Tom Carreras/CoinDesk)
Tom Carreras / CoinDesk:
An interview with El Salvador’s top crypto regulator Juan Carlos Reyes on taking a tech-minded approach to crypto regulation, how his agency works, and more — The National Commission of Digital Assets is the agency in charge of regulating crypto in El Salvador, the first nation to accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark on AGI, how Elon Musk could constructively engage with the Trump administration on AI safety, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark on AGI, how Elon Musk could constructively engage with the Trump administration on AI safety, and more — More than 33,000 people—including a hall of fame of AI experts—signed a March 2023 open letter calling on the tech industry …
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems — Nvidia is grappling with new problems related to its much-anticipated Blackwell graphics processing units for artificial intelligence …
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump’s presidency, a closer look at Apple’s upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump’s presidency, a closer look at Apple’s upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more — With its heavy reliance on China, Apple remains vulnerable to Donald Trump’s tariffs. But Tim Cook likely has a plan to soften the blow.
Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stake in Pegatron’s iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, India, forming a joint venture, and will run the daily operations (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stake in Pegatron’s iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, India, forming a joint venture, and will run the daily operations — India’s Tata Electronics has agreed to buy a majority stake in Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron’s only iPhone plant in India …
Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)
Daniela Dib / Rest of World:
Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu — A large community of catalog saleswomen are selling items from the Chinese platform. — • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google’s conservatism, ChatGPT’s success, biological computers, and more (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google’s conservatism, ChatGPT’s success, biological computers, and more — In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need …
The US FTC’s DNC Registry data shows the agency received ~1.1M consumer complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from ~1.2M in FY 2023 and 3.4M+ in FY 2021 (Federal Trade Commission)
Federal Trade Commission:
The US FTC’s DNC Registry data shows the agency received ~1.1M consumer complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from ~1.2M in FY 2023 and 3.4M+ in FY 2021 — FTC releases annual Do Not Call Registry Data Book showing total reports about unwanted calls decreased further in 2024
