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💵 Apple and Google to pay billions after EU court rulings
📱 Huawei launches world's first triple-folding smartphone
🤖 Apple Intelligence preview shows it can make a lot of stuff up, still needs work
🚀 SpaceX Polaris launches historic private mission
🎮 AMD shifts focus from gaming GPUs to AI
🎁 + 4 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
💵 Apple and Google to pay billions after EU court rulingsLINK
The European Union's top court ruled that Apple must repay $14.35 billion in back taxes to Ireland, and upheld a $2.65 billion antitrust fine for Google, marking significant victories for E.U. regulatory efforts against U.S. tech giants.
Margrethe Vestager, known as the E.U.’s digital czar, has led efforts to regulate major tech companies, earning praise for challenging their tax arrangements and antitrust practices but also facing criticism for potentially stifling innovation.
As Apple and Google invest heavily in artificial intelligence, they have been appealing the E.U. penalties for almost a decade, with the court's latest decisions affirming the European Commission's previous rulings on both cases.
📱 Huawei launches world's first triple-folding smartphoneLINK
Huawei has launched the world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design, with prices starting at 19,999 yuan (about $2,809) for the 256GB model in China, which is more expensive than a 16-inch MacBook Pro.
The Mate XT features an inverse dual-hinge design that allows the device to fold in a "Z" shape, expanding from a 6.4-inch display when collapsed to a 10.2-inch screen when fully unfolded.
This innovative phone includes a 5,600mAh battery, supports 66W wired and 50W wireless charging, and has a triple rear camera system with a 50-megapixel main camera, alongside specific configurations up to 1TB storage available at higher prices.
🤖 Apple Intelligence preview shows it can make a lot of stuff up, still needs workLINK
Potential buyers of the iPhone 16 might want to wait until Apple Intelligence matures, as early previews suggest mixed results and possible battery life concerns.
Apple Intelligence features like generative AI emojis were not available for testing, and errors, including factual inaccuracies and misleading prompts, were frequently observed during preview.
The AI technology, although promising in its potential to summarize incoming information, often got facts wrong and occasionally misled users, highlighting the current limitations of Apple Intelligence.
🚀 SpaceX Polaris launches historic private missionLINK
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission launched an all-private astronaut crew from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, aiming to reach an altitude of 870 miles, the highest achieved by humans since the Apollo moon landings.
The mission includes a historic spacewalk by nongovernment astronauts and will test new spacesuits and technologies for future lunar and Mars missions, with Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis scheduled to spend about 15 minutes outside the spacecraft.
This mission, funded by Jared Isaacman and part of the Polaris program, demonstrates the impact of commercial space efforts on advancing space exploration while enhancing collaboration and knowledge-sharing between SpaceX and NASA.
🎮 AMD shifts focus from gaming GPUs to AILINK
AMD is now prioritizing AI chips over flagship GPUs for gamers, as part of a new business strategy to merge its RDNA gaming graphics and CDNA data center efforts into a universal "UDNA" aimed primarily at AI.
According to AMD's Jack Huynh, the company's goal with gaming graphics is to build scale and market share at more affordable price points, rather than focusing on high-end flagship GPUs that haven't gained significant traction against Nvidia.
AMD aims to become a leader in AI data center GPUs, leveraging its substantial market share with EPYC CPUs and seeking to emulate Nvidia's success with its CUDA platform, while also acknowledging the impracticality of producing every type of chip at once.
Other news you might like
Ex-Sony boss tells laid-off employees to 'drive an Uber' and 'find a cheap place to live'.LINK
Apple looks to third parties, like Google, to help power iPhone 16’s visual search.LINK
Amazon is allowing Audible narrators to clone themselves with AI.LINK
Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body.LINK
Latest research and tools
Transfusion: Predict the next token and diffuse images with one multimodal model: this paper presents a model that can both generate text predictions and create images using a single approach.LINK
Sail: a PySpark-compatible computation framework aimed at unifying stream and batch processing, along with AI workloads, offering a faster and cheaper alternative with seamless integration for Spark SQL and DataFrame API.LINK
osquery: transforms an operating system into a high-performance relational database, allowing SQL queries to monitor, instrument, and analyze the system's state across Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.LINK
Talaria: Interactively Optimizing Machine Learning Models for Efficient Inference: the paper introduces a system that allows for the interactive optimization of machine learning models to improve their efficiency during inference.LINK
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