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Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware: Razer updates the Blade 16 with a 240Hz OLED display and new Intel and Nvidia chips, and previews a new Blade 18 with a 4K 165Hz display and Thunderbolt 5  —  By Andrew E.… Read More »Razer updates the Blade 16 with a 240Hz OLED display and new Intel and Nvidia chips, and previews a new Blade 18 with a 4K 165Hz display and Thunderbolt 5 (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom’s Hardware)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Volkswagen plans to integrate ChatGPT into its cars to control basic functions and answer “general knowledge questions”, starting in Europe in Q2 2024  —  Volkswagen is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon by announcing… Read More »Volkswagen plans to integrate ChatGPT into its cars to control basic functions and answer “general knowledge questions”, starting in Europe in Q2 2024 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: MSI unveils the Claw, a Windows-based gaming handheld powered by Intel’s Meteor Lake Core Ultra processor with a 7″ 1080p 120Hz IPS display, starting at $699  —  MSI is the latest PC manufacturer to attempt… Read More »MSI unveils the Claw, a Windows-based gaming handheld powered by Intel’s Meteor Lake Core Ultra processor with a 7″ 1080p 120Hz IPS display, starting at $699 (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13B, in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week  —  Deal could be unveiled this week, valuing Juniper at roughly $13… Read More »Sources: HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13B, in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week (Wall Street Journal)

Casey Newton / Platformer: Substack says it’ll remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won’t include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content  —  Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today.

Kate Clark / The Information: Sources: former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s new AI startup, which is making software for LLM developers, raised ~$30M led by Khosla Ventures  —  Parag Agrawal, who was CEO of Twitter for a year before Elon… Read More »Sources: former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s new AI startup, which is making software for LLM developers, raised ~$30M led by Khosla Ventures (Kate Clark/The Information)

Anna Tong / Reuters: In a filing and internal memo, Unity Software says it plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March, its largest layoff ever  —  Videogame software provider Unity Software… Read More »In a filing and internal memo, Unity Software says it plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March, its largest layoff ever (Anna Tong/Reuters)

Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube updates its cyberbullying policy to ban AI-generated content that “realistically simulates” deceased children or victims of crimes or deadly events  —  YouTube is updating its cyberbullying and harassment policies and will no longer allow… Read More »YouTube updates its cyberbullying policy to ban AI-generated content that “realistically simulates” deceased children or victims of crimes or deadly events (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Reuters: Source: the US will release a rule soon, first proposed in 2022, requiring some independent contractors be considered employees, which may upend the gig economy  —  The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden will release a final rule as… Read More »Source: the US will release a rule soon, first proposed in 2022, requiring some independent contractors be considered employees, which may upend the gig economy (Reuters)

Bloomberg: Duolingo cuts 10% of its contractors, partly attributing the move to its use of more AI to create app content  —  About 10% of contractors were “offboarded,” a company spokesperson said Monday.  “We just no longer need as many… Read More »Duolingo cuts 10% of its contractors, partly attributing the move to its use of more AI to create app content (Bloomberg)