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Investors call Intuit bullish; VB calls Intuit and its AI strategy a highlight of VB Transform 2024
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 21:53
Learn why Intuit is such a good example of how to really put generative AI to work at this year's VB Transform.
Putin on Dedollarization: 80% of Russia-China Trade in Rubles and Yuan
Bitcoin.com - 8 Jul 2024 02:33
Russian President Vladimir Putin highlights economic integration and dedollarization at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of State Council meeting, chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We ar...
Paramount moves closer to finalizing merger with Skydance: reports
Market Watch - 8 Jul 2024 01:36Meta AI develops compact language model for mobile devices
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:49
Key innovations in Meta's MobileLLM include prioritizing model depth over width, implementing embedding sharing and grouped-query attention and utilizing a novel immediate block-wise weight-sharing technique.
LockBit's latest attack shows why fintech needs more zero trust
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:40
LockBit claiming to have breached the U.S. Treasury and, instead, exfiltrated customer data from a bank is a common deception strategy.
Not to brag, but VB has the best reporters in the biz -- get in the room with them at VB Transform
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:15
Don't miss your chance to meet some of our top reporters and editors at this year's VB Transform in San Francisco. Register now!
San Francisco's AI boom can't stop real estate slide, as office vacancies reach new record
CNBC - 8 Jul 2024 23:04
Office vacancies in San Francisco hit another record in the second quarter, and rent prices fell to their lowest since 2015, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
Gamescom Latam grew to 100K visitors, 124 exhibitors from 66 countries
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:03
Gamescom Latam (combined with the BIG Festival) grew to more than 100,000 visitors for its gaming expo in São Paulo, Brazil.
Zenless Zone Zero passes 50M global downloads in 72 hours
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 23:00
Hoyoverse's latest RPG, Zenless Zone Zero, reached 50M global downloads but failed to generate the same revenue at launch as its predecessors.
Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 21:55
Groq now allows you to make lightning fast queries and perform other tasks with leading large language models (LLMs) directly on its web site. On the tests I did, Groq replied at around 1256.54 tokens per second, a speed...
Sun Valley 2024: Paramount, AI, the NBA and Disney -- and why Warren Buffett won't be at 'summer camp for billionaires'
New York Post - 8 Jul 2024 21:03
The invite-only events on the lodge's sprawling grounds are a closely-guarded secret to the public, but the annual conference has traditionally served as a hotbed for dealmaking among moguls like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg a...
SGDQ 2024 fundraised $2.5M despite declining viewership
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 21:00
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2024 raised $2.5M for Doctors Without Borders despite declining viewership since 2017.
At VB Transform: Perplexity CBO on factfulness, plagiarism and how AI (and Perplexity) are aiming to rewrite the unwritten rules
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 19:48
Perplexity offers an "answer" engine that makes search so simple, while publishers say it's just stealing content. What's the real story?
Open-TeleVision: Why human intelligence could be the key to next-gen robotic automation
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 18:00
Last week, researchers at MIT and UCSD unveiled a new immersive remote control experience for robots. This innovative system, dubbed “Open-TeleVision,” enables operators to actively perceive the robot’s surrounding...
Why Nvidia's stock can scale the 'wall of worry,' according to UBS
Market Watch - 8 Jul 2024 16:11Delivery Hero's stock drops after warning of possible hefty EU antitrust fine
Market Watch - 8 Jul 2024 16:03Bidenflation? Trumpflation? No. The real problem is Covidflation.
American Banker - 8 Jul 2024 16:00
The most important issue on voters' minds is inflation, and the inflation blame game has heated up with the upcoming presidential election. Putting politics aside, an objective economist would blame neither candidate, si...
Amir Satvat forecasts 4,463 more game workers will be laid off in 2024, but rate is slowing
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 15:30
Game job aggregator Amir Satvat estimated 4,463 additional people will be laid off in 2024, but he noted the rate of layoffs is slowing.
JPMorgan downgraded on valuation, while Bank of America shines as top pick: analyst
Market Watch - 8 Jul 2024 15:30I was scammed out of nearly $300,000 and was forced to abandon my retirement dreams
Business Insider - 8 Jul 2024 15:21In France, Investors Get the Centrist Limbo They Wanted
Wall Street Journal - 8 Jul 2024 14:31
Polarization has for years left the country's politics stuck in an unpopular middle ground, and the latest elections won't change that. But it does serve to lower the key risks that financial markets were worried about.
Applied Materials reveals chip wiring innovations for energy-efficient computing
Venture Beat - 8 Jul 2024 13:30
Applied Materials has revealed chip wiring innovations that will address challenges for energy-efficient computing.