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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012  —  The Motion Picture Association… Read More »The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012 (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

Stuart Condie / Wall Street Journal: Australian data center operator NextDC is raising AU$1.32B of equity to accelerate development and fit-out of centers in its core Sydney and Melbourne markets  —  NextDC reaffirmed the FY 2024 revenue, earnings and capital… Read More »Australian data center operator NextDC is raising AU$1.32B of equity to accelerate development and fit-out of centers in its core Sydney and Melbourne markets (Stuart Condie/Wall Street Journal)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international markets, to focus on its India expansion ahead of an IPO  —  Indian ride-hailing giant Ola is shutting down its… Read More »Ola shuts down in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international markets, to focus on its India expansion ahead of an IPO (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Huawei is building a vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai and has already hired numerous engineers who have worked for ASML, TSMC, and others  —  China tech company spending billions, snapping up talent… Read More »Sources: Huawei is building a vast chip equipment R&D center in Shanghai and has already hired numerous engineers who have worked for ASML, TSMC, and others (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS  —  Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud-service provider, owes… Read More »A US jury finds AWS owes Chicago-based Kove $525M for infringing three of its patents in data-storage technology that had become “essential” to AWS (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Bloomberg: The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese companies  —  – Leaders look to cooperate on developing emerging technology  — Kishida touts benefits of Japan’s… Read More »The Biden administration announces a $110M US-Japan joint AI research initiative funded by Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese companies (Bloomberg)

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content”  —  The change, they say, has significantly affected creators who are… Read More »Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing “political content” (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)

Stephen Ornes / Quanta Magazine: Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness  —  All topics … Newsletter  —  Get Quanta Magazine delivered to your… Read More »Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness (Stephen Ornes/Quanta Magazine)

Granth Vanaik / Reuters: Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables  —  Google will invest $1 billion to improve digital connectivity between the U.S.… Read More »Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables (Granth Vanaik/Reuters)

Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of AI technology  —  The CEO met with officials in the UAE this week to push… Read More »Sources: Sam Altman met with investors and officials in the UAE this week to push for more infrastructure investment to support the development of AI technology (Bloomberg)