Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal: Sources: investigators suspect Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 dragged its anchor for 100+ miles to sever two Baltic internet cables, possibly at the behest of Russia — NATO warships surround Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier at the center of an international probe into suspected sabotage
Published: 2024-11-27 15:20:01
Alex Stedman / IGN: Sony says it has sold 160M+ PlayStation 2 consoles globally since its 2000 launch, the highest-selling console of all time ahead of the Nintendo DS and Switch — It's the highest-selling console of all time. — In honor of the PlayStation's 30th anniversary, Sony has launched a webpage revealing …
Published: 2024-11-27 15:05:01
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Italy, Europol, and others say they dismantled a pirate streaming service that redistributed IPTV, Sky, and more, served 22M+ users, and made €250M per month — An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide …
Published: 2024-11-27 14:35:04
Reuters: Analysis: Elon Musk posted about Trump's cabinet picks 70+ times from November 7 to 20 to promote his preferred candidates; Trump picked others in several cases — Billionaire Elon Musk has been using his social media platform X to go to bat for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks …
Published: 2024-11-27 14:20:00
Barbara Booth / CNBC: US police in California, Colorado, and Indiana are testing Draft One, Axon's AI tool that generates police reports from Axon's bodycam audio, with 75 officers — With law enforcement focused on reducing crime rates and budget pressures, while recruiting and retaining staff …
Published: 2024-11-27 13:40:00
Ashley Rindsberg / Pirate Wires: A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A — london's digital markets, competition and consumers act gives regulators the power to stop any acquisition, anywhere, for basically any reason they want
Published: 2024-11-27 13:05:02
Bloomberg: Sources: Guangzhou-based self-driving company Pony.AI raised $260M after pricing its US IPO at $13 per share, the top of the range, implying a ~$4.5B valuation — - Guangzhou-headquartered company prices shares at $13 each — Company is set to list American depositary shares Wednesday
Published: 2024-11-27 12:30:08
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Elon Musk's xAI plans to debut a consumer app as soon as December; the startup built its Colossus data center, which uses 100K Nvidia GPUs, in 122 days — The Tesla CEO is racing to make xAI, which launched after its competitors, the world's most advanced AI company
Published: 2024-11-27 12:05:01
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: Amsterdam-based Just Eat plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange on December 27 owing to the low liquidity, shifting to just an Amsterdam listing — The Amsterdam-headquartered meal delivery firm intends to cancel its secondary listing from the London Stock Exchange to reduce the associated …
Published: 2024-11-27 11:40:14
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles for tone and length, 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: IDC expects global smartphone shipments to grow 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, due to 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
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
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
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
Paul Triolo / American Affairs Journal: A look at the evolution of China's chip industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs have 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