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⚔️ Amazon’s plan to rival Nvidia
🤝 Tech CEOs want to replicate Tim Cook’s Donald Trump playbook
🎵 Nvidia's new AI turns text into audio
🎮 Sony is developing a new handheld console to rival Nintendo
🤖 Humanoid robot achieves 400% speed boost at BMW plant
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
⚔️ Amazon’s plan to rival NvidiaLINK
Amazon's Trainium2 AI chip, developed in Austin, Texas, is set to be four times faster and have three times the memory of its predecessor by simplifying its design and reducing maintenance complexity. Amazon is investing up to $8 billion in AI company Anthropic, which will adopt Amazon's chips and AWS as its primary cloud platform, aiming to enhance cloud business growth. Despite the chip's potential, Amazon's Neuron SDK software lags behind Nvidia's mature ecosystem, requiring significant development time for users to transition.
🤝 Tech CEOs want to replicate Tim Cook’s Donald Trump playbookLINK
CEOs from other U.S. companies plan to adopt Tim Cook's strategy of engaging personally with then-president Trump to influence the incoming administration's decisions.
Cook's simple approach involved direct communication through phone calls and meetings, focusing on one key issue per interaction, leading to benefits like tariff exemptions for Apple.
Despite its simplicity, replicating Cook's method may be challenging for other CEOs due to factors like Apple's significant brand recognition and Cook's established relationship with Trump.
🎵 Nvidia's new AI turns text into audioLINK
NVIDIA unveiled Fugatto, a groundbreaking generative AI model capable of producing and altering a variety of music, voices, and sounds based on textual and audio prompts.
Fugatto offers unmatched flexibility in the audio domain, enabling users to create unique sounds and finely-tuned audio experiences, incorporating diverse styles, emotions, and accents.
Developed by a global team, the model boasts multi-accent and multilingual capabilities, and uses 2.5 billion parameters trained on advanced NVIDIA systems, redefining audio generation technology.
🎮 Sony is developing a new handheld console to rival NintendoLINK
Sony is developing a standalone handheld console capable of playing PlayStation 5 games on the go, rivaling devices like the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck.
This new console project is separate from the recently launched PlayStation Portal, which required a PS5 to function and was not a standalone device.
Expected technical challenges may delay its release, potentially until 2027, as Sony aims for a handheld offering cutting-edge gaming performance with developer support.
🤖 Humanoid robot achieves 400% speed boost at BMW plantLINK
The Figure 02 robot, developed by Figure AI and tested at a BMW plant, achieved a remarkable 400% increase in operational speed and a sevenfold enhancement in success rate.
A video demonstrated Figure 02's ability to conduct up to 1,000 precise placements per day, marking a significant advancement in deploying humanoid robots for industrial tasks.
Despite not yet being fully integrated at BMW's Spartanburg plant, plans for Figure 02's return in 2025 underscore its potential to revolutionize automotive manufacturing with increased efficiency.
Other news you might like
Google’s empire is under siege.LINK
Google Play Store may warn you from downloading low quality apps.LINK
Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to "train AI models".LINK
1,000 AI agents can now predict human behavior with 85% accuracy in social experiments.LINK
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it.LINK
Inside TikTok's invite-only creator summit, where it pushed long-form video and ignored the looming ban threat.LINK
Huawei aims for 100,000 apps on home-grown HarmonyOS Next as it gears up for Mate 70 launch.LINK
After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell.LINK
Latest research and tools
GitHub: a platform for hosting and collaborating on code projects, which has removed 42 "basic functionality" features from its roadmap.LINK
Rill: a toolkit for Go that simplifies building concurrent programs by making common tasks easier, improving code composability, centralizing error handling, and supporting advanced stream processing and custom extensions with a lightweight, dependency-free API.LINK
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