IDC expects global smartphone shipments to rise 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, with Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY (IDC)

Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles tailored to users, aiming to personalize its replies, following similar ChatGPT and Gemini features (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles tailored to users, aiming to personalize its replies, following similar ChatGPT and Gemini features  —  Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks.

Published: 2024-11-27 11:25:03

IDC expects global smartphone shipments to rise 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, with Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY (IDC)

IDC: IDC expects global smartphone shipments to rise 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, with Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY  —  Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 6.2% year-over-year in 2024 to 1.24 billion units, according …

Published: 2024-11-27 11:00:43

Singapore, which has clear AV guidelines, is deploying self-driving buses and more as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently (Sandy Ong/Rest of World)

Sandy Ong / Rest of World: Singapore, which has clear AV guidelines, is deploying self-driving buses and more as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently  —  The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently.

Published: 2024-11-27 10:30:00

Game console makers rethink selling more powerful machines, as performance improvements become less dramatic and consumers can't tell between 4K and 8K graphics (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Game console makers rethink selling more powerful machines, as performance improvements become less dramatic and consumers can't tell between 4K and 8K graphics  —  The human eye can't really tell the difference between 4K and 8K resolution.  —  Video game console manufacturers …

Published: 2024-11-27 09:55:01

Study: about 85% of US unicorn startups that have gone public were unprofitable in 2023, despite most having been founded more than fifteen years earlier (Jeffrey Funk/American Affairs Journal)

Jeffrey Funk / American Affairs Journal: Study: about 85% of US unicorn startups that have gone public were unprofitable in 2023, despite most having been founded more than fifteen years earlier  —  Financial losses for today's start-ups are much more common than they were decades ago, and the losses are much bigger.

Published: 2024-11-27 09:00:51

A look at the evolution of China's semiconductor industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs become the new focal point of US-China tech competition (Paul Triolo/American Affairs Journal)

Paul Triolo / American Affairs Journal: A look at the evolution of China's semiconductor industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs become the new focal point of US-China tech competition  —  Since I last wrote about China's responses to U.S. export controls in these pages, in February 2024, much has changed …

Published: 2024-11-27 07:45:00

Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store  —  As scrutiny around Apple and Google's app store fees ramps up around the world, Roblox is now offering users who buy its game currency …

Published: 2024-11-27 07:35:01

Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code  —  Huawei on Tuesday launched the Mate 70 series of smartphones that can run on the company's latest self-developed operating system …

Published: 2024-11-27 07:00:38

Sources: Elon Musk has given investors, who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition, 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Elon Musk has given investors, who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition, 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation  —  Investors hit by losses following billionaire's takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up

Published: 2024-11-27 06:45:00

Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of restricted stock in a new tender offer to SoftBank, in a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son (CNBC)

CNBC: Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of restricted stock in a new tender offer to SoftBank, in a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son  —  OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.

Published: 2024-11-27 05:30:02

Bluesky says it is up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a dataset of 1M posts from its API for ML research (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Bluesky says it is up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a dataset of 1M posts from its API for ML research  —  A machine learning librarian at Hugging Face just released a dataset composed of one million Bluesky posts …

Published: 2024-11-27 05:10:00

An investigation suggests the third suspect behind the hacks of Snowflake clients may be a US Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: An investigation suggests the third suspect behind the hacks of Snowflake clients may be a US Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea  —  Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake …

Published: 2024-11-27 04:25:01

Wherobots, which offers a cloud-based platform to process and analyze geospatial data from satellites and other sources, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Wherobots, which offers a cloud-based platform to process and analyze geospatial data from satellites and other sources, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis  —  Mo Sarwat, cofounder and CEO of Wherobots.  —  WHEROBOTS  —  As a kid in Cairo, Mo Sarwat first grasped the dangers of not understanding the natural world.

Published: 2024-11-27 04:20:06

TikTok plans to block under-18 users from using beauty filters, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13 users from the platform (Robert Booth/The Guardian)

Robert Booth / The Guardian: TikTok plans to block under-18 users from using beauty filters, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13 users from the platform  —  Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up

Published: 2024-11-27 04:01:13

OpenAI suspends access to Sora in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: OpenAI suspends access to Sora in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals  —  A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora.  They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.

Published: 2024-11-27 03:10:01

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Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles tailored to users, aiming to personalize its replies, following similar ChatGPT and Gemini features (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

IDC expects global smartphone shipments to rise 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, with Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY (IDC)

Singapore, which has clear AV guidelines, is deploying self-driving buses and more as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently (Sandy Ong/Rest of World)

Game console makers rethink selling more powerful machines, as performance improvements become less dramatic and consumers can't tell between 4K and 8K graphics (Bloomberg)

Study: about 85% of US unicorn startups that have gone public were unprofitable in 2023, despite most having been founded more than fifteen years earlier (Jeffrey Funk/American Affairs Journal)

A look at the evolution of China's semiconductor industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs become the new focal point of US-China tech competition (Paul Triolo/American Affairs Journal)

Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Sources: Elon Musk has given investors, who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition, 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation (Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of restricted stock in a new tender offer to SoftBank, in a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son (CNBC)

Bluesky says it is up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a dataset of 1M posts from its API for ML research (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

An investigation suggests the third suspect behind the hacks of Snowflake clients may be a US Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Wherobots, which offers a cloud-based platform to process and analyze geospatial data from satellites and other sources, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

TikTok plans to block under-18 users from using beauty filters, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13 users from the platform (Robert Booth/The Guardian)

OpenAI suspends access to Sora in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

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