Journals

Ian King / Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to use Intel’s 18A tech to make a forthcoming chip that Microsoft designed in-house; Microsoft recently announced two computer and AI chips  —  – Move marks a win for Intel’s push into made-to-order chips … Read More »Microsoft plans to use Intel’s 18A tech to make a forthcoming chip that Microsoft designed in-house; Microsoft recently announced two computer and AI chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: Arm prepares to release its Neoverse V3 and N3 CPU designs to its customers, offering up to 128 cores and more, for server, cloud, and infrastructure  —  A bit over 5 years ago, Arm announced their… Read More »Arm prepares to release its Neoverse V3 and N3 CPU designs to its customers, offering up to 128 cores and more, for server, cloud, and infrastructure (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

New York Times: Tech insiders and engineers say China lags behind the US in generative AI by at least one year, leading Chinese companies to rely on US models like Meta’s LLaMA  —  China’s tech firms were caught off guard… Read More »Tech insiders and engineers say China lags behind the US in generative AI by at least one year, leading Chinese companies to rely on US models like Meta’s LLaMA (New York Times)

Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg: How Japan plans to spend $67B to revive its domestic chip production, hoping to leverage US supply chain concerns, including Rapidus building 2nm chips by 2027  —  US-China tech battle makes semiconductors a key economic security… Read More »How Japan plans to spend $67B to revive its domestic chip production, hoping to leverage US supply chain concerns, including Rapidus building 2nm chips by 2027 (Yoshiaki Nohara/Bloomberg)

Louis Columbus / VentureBeat: CrowdStrike’s 2024 Global Threat Report: cloud intrusions jumped 75%, a 76% rise in data theft victims named on data leak sites, 34 newly named groups, and more  —  Traditional security approaches aren’t closing the gap fast… Read More »CrowdStrike’s 2024 Global Threat Report: cloud intrusions jumped 75%, a 76% rise in data theft victims named on data leak sites, 34 newly named groups, and more (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: WhatsApp rolls out support for bulleted and numbered lists, block quotes, and inline code to highlight and organize messages on Android, iOS, web, and macOS  —  Four new text formatting options have been added to… Read More »WhatsApp rolls out support for bulleted and numbered lists, block quotes, and inline code to highlight and organize messages on Android, iOS, web, and macOS (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: Chipmaker Astera Labs, which offers cloud and AI connectivity hardware, files for a US IPO, reporting 2023 revenue up 44.9% YoY to $115.8M and a $26.3M net loss  —  Chipmaker Astera Labs revealed its loss… Read More »Chipmaker Astera Labs, which offers cloud and AI connectivity hardware, files for a US IPO, reporting 2023 revenue up 44.9% YoY to $115.8M and a $26.3M net loss (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Copilot Pro review: the $20/month service is a good start that offers impressive image generation and useful features in Word and other Office apps  —  Microsoft’s Copilot Pro launched last month as a $20… Read More »Microsoft Copilot Pro review: the $20/month service is a good start that offers impressive image generation and useful features in Word and other Office apps (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Clumio, a data backup and recovery service for companies using the public cloud, raised a $75M Series D, following a $135M Series C in November 2019  —  Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies… Read More »Clumio, a data backup and recovery service for companies using the public cloud, raised a $75M Series D, following a $135M Series C in November 2019 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Katie Paul / Reuters: Israel-based BRIA, a Getty-backed AI image generation startup that licenses 1B+ images from 18 stock providers, raised a $24M Series A from Publicis and others  —  A “responsible” AI image generation startup backed by stock photo… Read More »Israel-based BRIA, a Getty-backed AI image generation startup that licenses 1B+ images from 18 stock providers, raised a $24M Series A from Publicis and others (Katie Paul/Reuters)