Category Archives: Tech News

Baidu stock fell as much as 9.8% in Hong Kong on Friday after its latest AI model Ernie 5.0 fails to impress investors (Bloomberg)

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14
Nov
French authorities fully lifted the travel ban on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and removed a requirement for regular police check-ins as of November 10 (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Great Chat: Turns out, there’s still a line (don’t mock the pope) A [...]

13
Nov
Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can’t [...]

12
Nov
Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered [...]

11
Nov
Grab plans to invest $60M in remote driving service Vay, potentially rising to $410M within the next year if Vay hits certain milestones, set to close in Q4 (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Grab plans to invest $60M in remote driving service Vay, potentially [...]

10
Nov
Israel-based RAAAM, whose “GCRAM” on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity [...]

09
Nov
on a weekly level, 43% of consumers used Spotify and 16% turned to Apple (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity [...]

08
Nov
Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to establish a Europe-led satellite constellation, operated out of Germany, to provide satellite-to-smartphone connectivity (Reuters)

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07
Nov
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config (CNBC)

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06
Nov
Letter: the MPA sent a cease-and-desist to Meta over Instagram's use of PG-13 for teen content restrictions, calling it "literally false and highly misleading" (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: Letter: the MPA sent a cease-and-desist to Meta over [...]

05
Nov