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New York Times: Inflection won’t shut down Pi but will no longer focus on its consumer business, instead working with commercial customers to create, test, and tune AI systems  —  Mustafa Suleyman is leaving a start-up called Inflection to take… Read More »Inflection won’t shut down Pi but will no longer focus on its consumer business, instead working with commercial customers to create, test, and tune AI systems (New York Times)

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans  —  After losing two complaints before the… Read More »After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

Jing Yang / The Information: Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu’s GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows  —  jing@theinformation.com Profile and… Read More »Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu’s GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows (Jing Yang/The Information)

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app  —  Threads users in the U.S. will start seeing a “Trending now”… Read More »Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)

Adam James / The Block: The US SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn  —  – Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay… Read More »The US SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn (Adam James/The Block)

Satya Nadella / The Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft says Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan are joining to form Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Suleyman will be CEO  —  Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, shared the… Read More »Microsoft says Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan are joining to form Microsoft AI, focused on Copilot and other consumer AI products; Suleyman will be CEO (Satya Nadella/The Official Microsoft Blog)

Alex Koller / CNBC: In an interview, Jensen Huang estimates Nvidia’s GB200 Blackwell chip could cost $30,000 to $40,000, and R&D budget for the processor totaled around $10B  —  – Nvidia shares rose 1% Tuesday afternoon after the company unveiled… Read More »In an interview, Jensen Huang estimates Nvidia’s GB200 Blackwell chip could cost $30,000 to $40,000, and R&D budget for the processor totaled around $10B (Alex Koller/CNBC)

Inflection: Inflection AI says co-founder Karén Simonyan will join Mustafa Suleyman at Microsoft AI, names Sean White as CEO, and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure  —  From day one at Inflection, we’ve been driven by a simple mission: to… Read More »Inflection AI says co-founder Karén Simonyan will join Mustafa Suleyman at Microsoft AI, names Sean White as CEO, and plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Azure (Inflection)

Michael Peel / Financial Times: Google DeepMind debuts TacticAI, a prototype AI soccer tactician built with Premier League club Liverpool, using geometric deep learning on 7,176 corner kicks  —  Human experts prefer TacticAI’s suggested positional improvements at corner kicks  — … Read More »Google DeepMind debuts TacticAI, a prototype AI soccer tactician built with Premier League club Liverpool, using geometric deep learning on 7,176 corner kicks (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup  —  Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI … Read More »Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to run consumer AI, reporting to Satya Nadella, and brings on most staff from his Inflection AI startup (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)