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UK competition regulator looks into Amazon’s Anthropic funding

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun looking at whether it should investigate Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002. The CMA is already looking at Anthropic’s partnership with Google owner Alphabet, as well as Microsoft’s partnership with Inflection. In October 2023, Alphabet invested $2bn in OpenAI rival…

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An 18-year-old Safari loophole exploited by hackers is finally being fixed by Apple

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There’s a pesky loophole lurking in every major browser, including Apple’s Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox, that hackers have been exploiting for the past 18 years.This breach lets hackers access private networks of homes and businesses, granting access to data that should have been private. As first reported by Forbes, researchers from Israeli cybersecurity…

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Western Digital Teases 128 TB Enterprise SSD: BiCS8 3D QLC for AI Workloads

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A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital’s 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company’s BiCS8 QLC NAND memory and…

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Reddit might start putting some subreddits behind paywalls

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Following the announcement of the company’s Q2 results on Tuesday afternoon, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman spoke to shareholders and answered questions in an earnings call. As noted by Engadget, Huffman teased a few new features that we might see on the platform in the coming months, including paid subreddits and AI-powered search results.At one point,…

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ChatGPT GPT-5 upgrade may be close as Sam Altman posts a mysterious teaser

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OpenAI started rolling out the GPT-4o Voice Mode it unveiled in May to select ChatGPT Plus users. The voice upgrade will be released to more ChatGPT users in the coming months. But OpenAI might be preparing an even bigger update for ChatGPT, a new foundation model that might be known as GPT-5. That’s assuming OpenAI…

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Solidigm 122 TB Enterprise QLC SSD Announced for Early 2025 Release

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Solidigm’s D5-P5336 61.44 TB enterprise QLC SSD released in mid-2023 has seen unprecedented demand over the last few quarters, driven by the insatiable demand for high-capacity storage in AI datacenters. Multiple vendors have recognized and started preparing products to service this demand, but Solidigm appears to have taken the lead in actual market availability. At…

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AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs get official pricing – and there’s good news and bad news

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AMD has revealed the official pricing for its first four Ryzen 9000 processors, due out later in August (after being slightly delayed), and it’s a case of good news and bad news – at least, sort of.The good news is that the quartet of next-gen CPUs will debut at cheaper MSRPs than their current Ryzen…

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Labour drops Edinburgh exascale supercomputer but funds more AI

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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has announced funding for 98 artificial intelligence (AI) projects to help kickstart the UK economy. Minister for digital government and AI Feryal Clark said: “AI will deliver real change for working people across the UK – not only growing our economy but improving our public services. We…

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AI disempowers logistics workers while intensifying their work

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Marc Francis spent the past few years of his life governed by a broken route planner. Time after time, the driver who until recently delivered for Parcelforce would be asked to go on harder and harder routes or given unfeasible routes on his shifts. And when the system broke, failed to bring up an address…

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Intel calms fears over some 13th-gen or 14th-gen buyers missing out on extended warranty for instability issues – now all CPUs are covered, but worries remain

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Intel has decided that the warranty extension the firm announced last week, for chips affected by instability issues, applies to all its 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors, and not just boxed CPUs.If you recall, when the move, which upped the warranty from three to five years, was made, Intel said it applied to boxed products, but…

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