Nvidia could soon overtake Apple as the second-most valuable company in the world, only behind Microsoft. Nvidia has been doing very well for itself in recent years because it powers ChatGPT.
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CISPE, a European cloud provider association, has denied that it is close to a deal with Microsoft to address an antitrust issue. Sources said yesterday that the two were approaching a deal already.
The popular comic app, Webtoon, has filed for initial public offering in the US. If approved, it'll mean anyone in the world can buy a part of this popular business. It's still loss-making now though.
Microsoft could pay out millions of euros to the European cloud provider association, CISPE, for the latter to drop an antitrust case and not file any complaints against it anywhere else in the world.
We have quite a few missions coming up This Week in Rocket Launches. Notably, to start the week, there will be back-to-back Falcon 9 launches carrying Starlink internet satellites to space.
The online marketplace, Temu, has been designated as a very large online platform by the EU after it passed 45 million users in the EU. As a VLOP, it will now be under more scrutiny.
Anthropic has announced Claude Tool Use. It's aimed at developers leveraging Claude for third-party services and with tools, they can make Claude much more powerful, read on to find out more.
OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Edu, an affordable plan for learning centres such as universities. Before now, several prestigious universities had been using the ChatGPT Enterprise plan.
Amazon is currently selling the 98-inch Samsung QLED 4K QN90D TV with a massive $2,000 discount. This brand new TV is at its lowest price ever since being made available on Amazon in April.
Google has announced that it'll invest $2 billion building a data centre and establishing a cloud region in Malaysia. The investment could create 26,500 jobs in the area and boost GDP.
Google has announced the new Fitbit Ace LTE designed to get kids more active using interactive characters called Eejies. The watch costs $229.95 and then has a $9.99 per month Fitbit Ace Pass.
Mistral AI has launched Codestral, its very first large language model for coding tasks. It is fluent in 80+ programming languages and outdoes much of the competition using less compute.
The US Department of Justice has announced the arrest of YunHe Wang for operating what could be the largest botnet ever. While he has been charged, Wang has not yet been convicted.
Former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike has taken up a job at rival firm Anthropic. There, he will continue his work on superalignment and try to find a way for humans to control powerful AIs.
Microsoft has released a new weekly update for its browser in the Dev Channel. Version 126.0.2592.11 is now available with a new OTP feature, improved reliability, and accessibility improvements.
Helen Toner, one of the board members that tried to overthrow Sam Altman as head of OpenAI, has said the board wasn't given advance notice of the launch of ChatGPT back in November 2022.
Google has unveiled a new ChromeOS feature called Game Dashboard that allows you to map game controls and record and share your gameplay sessions. It also showed off a new Chromebook for gaming.
Apple has shared data from the Apple Hearing Study which is being conducted by the University of Michigan. The study found out more about the ailment from over 160,000 participants.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly in talks with the Italian government to build a new data centre or expand its Milan site. The investment is expected to be in the billions of euros.
Researchers have revealed that GPT-4 is pretty good at helping you pick stocks simply based on financial statements of companies without contextual information. They've released a bot for you too.
Google has announced the AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific to help people in the region fill their skill gaps regarding artificial intelligence. The fund has $15 million to help people learn about AI.
More work has been done on the new GNOME OS installer. It now has a GitLab repository for the code and the basic layout and internals have made decent progress. Check the video to see it in action.
Elon Musk has told xAI investors that the company is planning to build a compute gigafactory powered by a very powerful cluster of Nvidia H100 GPUs. It will be able to train new Grok iterations.
We have a lot of missions coming up This Week in Rocket Launches but the most notable will be when United Launch Alliance sends two astronauts to the ISS in a test flight of the CST-100 Starliner.
Kabosu, the dog behind the Doge meme, has died at the age of 18. The dog became an internet meme in 2010 before being adopted as the mascot for the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, which launched in 2013.
iFixit has announced the end of its partnership with Samsung. It said the Korean company didn't seem to care very much about people's ability to repair their devices at a competitive price.
Google has announced a new undersea cable called Umoja, which will connect several African countries and the continent to Australia for the first time. It will increase the continent's net resilience.
Amazon is investing €15.7 billion in Spain's Aragon region to bolster its AWS offerings. The company said the investment will contribute billions to the country's GDP and support around 17,500 jobs.
BT has been fined £2,800,000 by Ofcom for failing to provide a summary of its contracts to EE and Plusnet customers before they signed up. BT will also have to let people exit contracts without fees.
Adobe Lightroom has got two new features, Generative Remove and Lens Blur. The prior is in early access while the latter is in general availability. Read on to learn more about these features.
Microsoft has said its Visual Studio Code for Education platform will be made generally available at the end of the month. The platform aims to make it easy to learn to do programming.
Microsoft and Khan Academy have formed a new partnership that will see the Khanmigo teaching assistant AI tool become free of charge for educators in the United States, down from $4 per month.
The UK has launched the independent UK Semiconductor Institute. It will help bring together government, universities, and the private sector to help the country's semiconductor sector do well.
The UK government's AI Safety Institute will launch a San Francisco-based office in the summer. It wants to expand its expertise in AI by having easy access to the creators in San Francisco.
Google will be using the heat generated at its Hamina data centre in Finland to help provide locals with free heating. This will be appreciated by people in the area who face freezing weather.
Amazon is doing a deal on the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Windforce OC 12GB graphics card right now where you can save £90. It usually costs £589.99 but now you can get it for just £499.99.
You can save £29 on the highly-praised AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU on Amazon right now. It's the lowest price that this particular model has been available for since it was listed in April 2023.
The UK government is formulating proposals to help rights holders learn if their content has been used to train AI models. It aims to have these proposals ready before the election in autumn.
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman has issued a response to Jan Leike who raised questions over OpenAI's commitment to safety. The pair said they do care about safety. You can read the response here.
Developers working on GNOME improvements have been busy this week. They have been working on Nautilus improvements, a brand new installer, improvements to the Orca screen reader, and more.