Category Archives: Tech News

Israel plans to boycott Europe's biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after the event's founder accused Israel of war crimes, as many tech companies pull out (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Israel plans to boycott Europe’s biggest tech conference, Web Summit, after [...]

16
Oct
TSMC founder Morris Chang says the company expects competition from Intel and others, and Japan and Singapore have the best chance of winning the chip race (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: TSMC founder Morris Chang says the company expects competition from [...]

15
Oct
How Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy is pushing policymakers to focus on AI's long-term risks by funding salaries of staff in Congress and federal agencies (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: How Dustin Moskovitz’s Open Philanthropy is pushing policymakers to focus on [...]

14
Oct
A student's AI tool wins a global contest to read the text inside a carbonized Herculaneum scroll, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79 (Jo Marchant/Nature)

Jo Marchant / Nature: A student’s AI tool wins a global contest to read the [...]

13
Oct
Google says it will defend users of generative AI services in Workspace and Cloud from copyright claims; Microsoft, Adobe, and others made similar pledges (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Google says it will defend users of generative AI services in [...]

12
Oct
Filing: Progress Software says the US SEC have opened a probe into the MOVEit hack that has exposed the personal data of at least 64M people (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Filing: Progress Software says the US SEC have opened a probe [...]

11
Oct
Caroline Ellison testifies SBF "directed" her to commit crimes like using FTX customer funds for Alameda Research's venture investments and loan repayments (New York Times)

New York Times: Caroline Ellison testifies SBF “directed” her to commit crimes like using FTX [...]

10
Oct
Appfigures: ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps hit $4.58M total revenue in September from the $20/month ChatGPT+ plan, up from $3.81M in August and $2.74M in July (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: ChatGPT’s iOS and Android apps hit $4.58M total revenue in [...]

09
Oct
Q&A with Stanford University School of Medicine Dean Dr. Lloyd Minor on generative AI in medicine, the privacy risks, responsibly deploying the tech, and more (Jo Craven McGinty/Wall Street Journal)

Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Stanford University School of Medicine Dean [...]

08
Oct
IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones between 2016 and 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the last 12 months (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones between 2016 and 2023, [...]

07
Oct