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Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Sources: dozens of Chinese entities, including military bodies, AI research institutes, and universities bought small batches of Nvidia chips despite a US ban  —  Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes and universities have over… Read More »Sources: dozens of Chinese entities, including military bodies, AI research institutes, and universities bought small batches of Nvidia chips despite a US ban (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How dye-sensitized solar cells, which are lightweight, bendable, and manufactured cheaply, can capture light indoors to charge small gadgets like headphones  —  Indoor solar power technology is finally becoming available; Some devices no longer… Read More »How dye-sensitized solar cells, which are lightweight, bendable, and manufactured cheaply, can capture light indoors to charge small gadgets like headphones (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Adam Samson / Financial Times: Documents show Turkey told ISPs to block access to 16 VPN services, fueling concerns of the government stifling news and information before elections in March  —  New controls on VPNs underline Erdoğan’s moves to curb… Read More »Documents show Turkey told ISPs to block access to 16 VPN services, fueling concerns of the government stifling news and information before elections in March (Adam Samson/Financial Times)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail the Vision Pro’s in-store sales process, which includes extensive fitting and calibration and an employee-guided demo lasting up to 25 minutes  —  The company is preparing an extensive sales pitch for the $3,499 device,… Read More »Sources detail the Vision Pro’s in-store sales process, which includes extensive fitting and calibration and an employee-guided demo lasting up to 25 minutes (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

David Karpf / The Atlantic: OpenAI’s GPT Store debut is reminiscent of Facebook Platform’s 2007 launch, which allowed Facebook to use third-party developers’ products to boost stickiness  —  The immediate future of generative AI looks a bit like Facebook’s past. … Read More »OpenAI’s GPT Store debut is reminiscent of Facebook Platform’s 2007 launch, which allowed Facebook to use third-party developers’ products to boost stickiness (David Karpf/The Atlantic)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple is shutting a 121-person San Diego team of the Data Operations Annotations group, responsible for improving Siri’s accuracy, and moving staff to Austin  —  – Company will relocate key Siri data operations group to Austin … Read More »Apple is shutting a 121-person San Diego team of the Data Operations Annotations group, responsible for improving Siri’s accuracy, and moving staff to Austin (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Emilia David / The Verge: CES 2024 was all about “AI”, with many companies rebranding anything involving algorithms as AI and running the risk of overpromising to consumers  —  This year at CES was the year AI took over. …… Read More »CES 2024 was all about “AI”, with many companies rebranding anything involving algorithms as AI and running the risk of overpromising to consumers (Emilia David/The Verge)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors  —  Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. … Read More »Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Financial Times: SIA expects global semiconductor sales to recover and grow 13% in 2024 to $588B thanks to high-priced AI chips, but some analysts question the speed of recovery  —  Analysts see a ‘turning point’ this year for the $600bn… Read More »SIA expects global semiconductor sales to recover and grow 13% in 2024 to $588B thanks to high-priced AI chips, but some analysts question the speed of recovery (Financial Times)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Interoperability across ecosystems was one of CES 2024’s main themes, with widespread support for Qi2 wireless charging perhaps being the most significant shift  —  Last year, you couldn’t mention CES without bringing up Matter.  It… Read More »Interoperability across ecosystems was one of CES 2024’s main themes, with widespread support for Qi2 wireless charging perhaps being the most significant shift (Emma Roth/The Verge)