DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and is customized to work with next-gen Chinese-made AI chips, after unveiling it on August 19
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 Tobias Mann / The Register : DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Hugging Face : DeepSeek-V3.1 ...
Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000+ employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates
new report says retreating operation could become a liability to the state Clare A. Fonstein / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Intel to lay off over 1,000 employees in California, with deepest cuts ...
Sources: TSMC delays the construction of its second plant in Japan, initially slated for early 2025, to invest in US expansion ahead of potential Trump tariffs
TSMC says US investments won't impact other regions Skye Jacobs / TechSpot : TSMC shifts focus to US, postpones new chip plant in Japan Focus Taiwan : TSMC says U.S. investment won't impact projects e...
President Trump says he told Tim Cook that “I don't want you building in India”, “India can take care of themselves”, and Apple will be “upping” US production
what Apple can to do to appease Trump Adrija Chatterjee / Moneycontrol : India's value for money makes it a natural pick for the likes of Apple, says govt official Shouvik Das / Livemint : No change t...
Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites that it plans to send into low-Earth orbit
and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen Defense One : The D Brief: Jet falls off carrier; Yemen-bombing stats; Global defense-spending spike; Amazon's first satellites; And a bit more...
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Search available to logged-in users, not just subscribers, and says users can set ChatGPT Search as their browser's default search engine
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 8 Alan Velasco / HotHardware : OpenAI Gift Wraps ChatGPT's AI Search For Everyone, Check Out The Demo Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Search the Web With Your Voice ...
SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using Nvidia's DGX B200 platform, and a follow-up effort featuring the Grace Blackwell chip
Nvidia CEO regrets not taking the loan Brian Caulfield / NVIDIA : ‘Every Industry, Every Company, Every Country Must Produce a New Industrial Revolution,’ Says NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at AI Summit Jap...
Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting disappointing preliminary Q3 results and plans to review its organizational culture and processes
read the full statement Adam Clark / Barron's Online : Samsung Expects a Nearly $7 Billion Quarterly Profit. Why It Apologized. Ian Lyall / Proactive : Samsung Electronics apologises amid memory chip ...
SAP reports Q2 cloud revenue up 25% YoY to €4.15B, revenue up 10% YoY to €8.29B, a €918M net profit, and says a “restructuring” will affect ~10,000 jobs
In the second quarter, SAP's strong cloud momentum continued. Lindsay Clark / The Register : Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure Sonja Wind / Bloomberg : SAP Shares Jump After AI D...
Elon Musk says xAI plans to open source Grok this week; xAI released Grok in November 2023, offering access to “real-time” data via X's $16/month subscription
and takes another swipe at OpenAI Stefanie Schappert / Cybernews.com : Musk makes xAI's Grok open source in latest dig at OpenAI Inc.com : Elon Musk's Open-Source ‘Grok’ Takes on ChatGPT Brian Bushard...