Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon 2 11B, an open-source LLM to compete with Llama and Gemini that supports five European languages — – Model shows UAE is a “serious player” in AI, official says — Abu Dhabi plans to commercialize Falcon with new unit AI71
Sources: in recent months, China asked ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and others to cut back on Nvidia purchases in favor of chips made by local companies (Qianer Liu/The Information)
Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: in recent months, China asked ByteDance, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and others to cut back on Nvidia purchases in favor of chips made by local companies — Chinese authorities have a message for the local tech industry: Buy Chinese. — Officials with government agencies in recent months …
The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Amazon’s Zoox after two automated SUVs braked unexpectedly, both causing collisions with motorcyclists (Keith Laing/Bloomberg)
Keith Laing / Bloomberg:
The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Amazon’s Zoox after two automated SUVs braked unexpectedly, both causing collisions with motorcyclists — – Bikers rear-ended Zoox SUVs that suddenly, unexpectedly braked — US agency estimates 500 vehicles are subject to investigation
Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer that cost £225M and ranks 129th on the Top500 list, comes online; the system will contain 5,448 Nvidia GH200 chips (Charlotte Trueman/DatacenterDynamics)
Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics:
Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer that cost £225M and ranks 129th on the Top500 list, comes online; the system will contain 5,448 Nvidia GH200 chips — Ranks second for energy efficiency on Green500 list — The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI, has come online.
Top500: the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, not yet fully operational, came second behind the AMD-powered Frontier, but did come top in an AI benchmark (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)
Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Top500: the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, not yet fully operational, came second behind the AMD-powered Frontier, but did come top in an AI benchmark — Aurora faces stability issues from hardware failures, cooling malfunctions, and operational errors.
Sources: Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi is finalizing plans to float on the London stock market this month in a deal that could value the company at up to £500M (The Sunday Times)
The Sunday Times:
Sources: Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi is finalizing plans to float on the London stock market this month in a deal that could value the company at up to £500M — The Cambridge business sells cheap, credit-card-sized computers and was originally set up to help get children into coding
Squarespace says private equity firm Permira plans to take the company private in a $6.9B all-cash deal, or $44 per share, a 15.2% premium on Friday’s close (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Squarespace says private equity firm Permira plans to take the company private in a $6.9B all-cash deal, or $44 per share, a 15.2% premium on Friday’s close — Private equity firm Permira will take Squarespace (SQSP.N) private in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.9 billion …
Sources: Intel is in advanced, exclusive talks for a deal in which Apollo Global Management would supply $11B+ to help the chip giant build a plant in Ireland (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Intel is in advanced, exclusive talks for a deal in which Apollo Global Management would supply $11B+ to help the chip giant build a plant in Ireland — The investment firm is in exclusive talks to supply the chip giant with cash for a new plant.
Christie’s confirms eight auctions will proceed this week after a “technology security issue” on May 9 knocked its website offline, the second breach in a year (Zachary Small/New York Times)
Zachary Small / New York Times:
Christie’s confirms eight auctions will proceed this week after a “technology security issue” on May 9 knocked its website offline, the second breach in a year — The auction house failed to regain control of its official website on Sunday but said that its spring auctions would go on, in person and by phone.
An Australian judge refuses the eSafety commissioner’s request to extend an order for X to hide a video of a religious leader’s stabbing, without giving reasons (Stuart Condie/Wall Street Journal)
Stuart Condie / Wall Street Journal:
An Australian judge refuses the eSafety commissioner’s request to extend an order for X to hide a video of a religious leader’s stabbing, without giving reasons — Elon Musk previously said he was worried that if any country is allowed to censor content for all countries, then any country could control the entire internet
