Welcome again a week under review! Tons of items for you today, including Nintendo’s Switch 2; Capacity issues in Openai; a story that deserves Hollywood treatment; And many, much more. Let’s go!
Is finally (almost) here: After nearly 10 years, Nintendo finally released his descendant of Switch, Switch 2. According to Techcrunch’s Amanda Silberling, the $ 450 “system tries to get a keyboard that is already loved and simply make it better.” I’m in that! Unfortunately, the prefabricated in the US can be delayed in response to Trump’s fees.
Delay, delay: Openai’s Sam Altman said in a series of posts in X that the new company’s image generation tool can cause unspecified delays of products. “Working as soon as possible (how) we can really get stuff,” Altman wrote. The company promises to issue O3 (after effectively canceling the consumer release again in February).
Old College Try: Zach Yadegar, who built the Viral Cal AI, wrote on Twitter that although he has a 4.0 GPA and a $ 30 million company, he was not yet accepted into 15 high universities.
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tidings
Oh no: The Trump administration fired the head of the National Security and Cyber Command, as well as the Deputy Director of the NSA, who served as the highest civilian leader of the agency. It is not clear who is currently overseeing the NSA and cyber command after the shooting.
Do shopping for me, please: Amazon on Monday discovered Nova ACT, an agent of he with general goals that can take control of an online browser and perform some simple actions independently. Amazon is testing a feature that calls “buy for me”-Termed by its Nova models-which shows users third-party pages that have products they may want. They can then buy things from those other sites without leaving the Amazon site. Pretty NIFTY!
Yikes: An unfair use for the new Chatgpt image generator: counterfeiting bills. People are already using it to generate fake restaurant bills, potentially adding another tool to the already elongated deepfake tool used by fraudsters. Acceptance created can also include food and coffee stains to make them look more authentic. Great!
A tale of two companies: Rippling announced in March that he was suing Rival Deel for the claim of espionage, and this week issued a rippling employee’s assertion who proved to be working as a spy. There are some juicy details, like people representing Deel who allegedly told him to destroy his old phone with an ax. ” Hollywood, are you listening?
Pointing fingers: Director General of Epic Games My Sweeney called Apple and Google for their “gangster style” business practices. You can remember that his company sued both Apple and Google for monopolistic practices on their respective app stores. Epic won its issue with Google but not with Apple.
We could hardly know: Zelle, which facilitates payments from person to person, said Tuesday that she was closing her application. But don’t worry: out of 150 million people using diligence, only 2% of transactions are made through the single app than through the bank. Ok, that makes sense, then.
Talking about banks: Plaid, which links bank accounts with financial applications, sold ordinary shares worth about $ 575 million with a $ 6.1 billion rating. The rating is about half of the $ 13.4 billion that Pliad based in San Francisco was estimated when it raised a D 425 million series in April 2021.
Hungry Power: The new and enlarged data centers are expected to double the energy demand of the Sector it by 2029. As a result, developers and technology companies have worked overtime to close capacity. And here comes the sun.
Analysis
Sliding back: Elon Musk’s push in politics – specifically his approximation with President Trump and activities within the federal government – has attracted Tesla to uncertainty. For evidence, just look at the disappointing numbers of submitting the company’s shirts. Now the question is whether the Tesla brand can be recovered.
