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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa says the company plans to announce its Switch successor in the coming year; the Switch has sold 141M+ units since 2017 — - Company missed profit estimates for the March quarter — Outlook falls shy of expectations as flagship console ages
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| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Nintendo reports net profit up 13% YoY to ~$3.2B in the past fiscal year and expects profit to drop 39% YoY and revenue to drop 19% YoY in this fiscal year — The Japanese videogame maker expects revenue to fall 19% for the fiscal year that started in April 1
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Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC — The company is leaning on its long history of chip development in the effort, code-named Project ACDC — Apple has been working …
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Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed — MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an attack against many VPN apps that force them to send some or all traffic outside of the VPN encrypted tunnel; Android mitigates the flaw — TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers. — Researchers have devised an attack …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft is training MAI-1, a new, in-house AI model with ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI — For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models …
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LinkedIn: Kevin Scott and Aaron Holmes
Forums: r/artificial, r/singularity, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
A study by Meta researchers suggests that training LLMs to predict multiple tokens at once, instead of just the next token, results in better and faster models — In a recent study, researchers at Meta, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay suggest improving the accuracy …
More: arXiv.org, Miguel Grinberg, Cryptopolitan, PYMNTS.com, TheSequence, and MarkTechPost
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| Kyle Alspach / CRN: |
Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection — Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant …
More: Hindustan Times, The Verge, Google Cloud Blog, VirusTotal Blog, SiliconANGLE, Quartz, SecurityWeek, VentureBeat, and ZDNet
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK's largest AI fundraise ever — Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving …
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Amazon announces plans to double its cloud infrastructure investment in Singapore to $9B over the next four years, to meet the cloud and AI demand — - Cloud operator is latest global tech company to target region — Firms grow in Southeast Asia as they diversify away from China
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Synopsys agrees to sell its Software Integrity Group business to a private equity consortium led by Clearlake and Francisco Partners, in a deal valued at $2.1B — Synopsys (SNPS.O) will sell its software integrity (SIG) unit to a private equity consortium led by Clearlake Capital …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI should be available by the end of June — OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models' performance on programming-related tasks.
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Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Nintendo reports net profit up 13% YoY to ~$3.2B in the past fiscal year and expects profit to drop 39% YoY and revenue to drop 19% YoY in this fiscal yearFind
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Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
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