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How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I
Plus: How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers
Cash Nut
August 14, 2023
In Today’s Edition
JioCinema Enters Esports Arena, Will Live Stream Battlegrounds Mobile India Series
AI startup Anthropic raises $100M from Korean telco giant SK Telecom
Apple Planning Major 'Apple Watch X' Redesign to Introduce New Band System and More
Millions of Amazon Packages Will Now Arrive Without Any Packaging At All
How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers
New force of nature discovered by scientists at Fermilab
🚀Startups Nuts
BGIS will feature Hindi and English commentary for all preliminary matches and culminate in a grand finale. Over 2,000 teams have signed up for the tournament and will compete for a prize money of INR 2Cr. The partnership comes at a time when JioCinema has been bolstering its live sports streaming portfolio.
AI startup Anthropic, co-founded by ex-OpenAI leaders, is receiving $100M in funding from SK Telecom. SKT plans to co-develop a multilingual large language model with Anthropic for telcos. The system will enable AI customization for four Global Telco AI Alliance members. Anthropic's AI system, Claude, will be used for industry-specific tasks such as customer service, marketing, sales, and interactive applications. The LLM will support six languages, and SKT aims to lead the AI ecosystem in partnership with global telco partners.
🏭Business Nuts
Apple is reportedly planning a complete revamp of the Apple Watch for the device's tenth anniversary. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that the 'Apple Watch X', which will be released either in 2024 or 2025, will have a thinner casing and different ways for bands to attach to the device. The Apple Watch Series 9 will likely only be a minor refresh. Apple is considering switching the Apple Watch away from annual updates to offer more substantial upgrades on a less frequent cycle.
Around 11% of packages from Amazon in the US will now arrive without extra packaging. Amazon is aiming to streamline its delivery process, boost sustainability, and appeal to customers who are turned off by brown boxes. Customers can choose whether they want extra packaging or not at checkout on items qualified to ship in their own containers.
📱Tech Nuts
Amazon quietly started production of custom silicon in 2013. It has launched its own Arm-based server chip as a rival to x86 CPUs from AMD and Intel. Amazon launched AI-focused chips in 2018, two years before Google announced its first Tensor Processing Unit. This article takes a look at Amazon's strategy to provide the infrastructure for businesses to create generative AI applications.
In this interview, Elliott Peterson, one of the FBI agents who led the investigations around the DDOS attacks that knocked out some of the biggest websites in 2016, discusses his work going after the people behind DDoS services and identifying which services to take down.
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🎁Miscellaneous
Scientists at Fermilab have found evidence of muons not behaving as expected by the current physics theory. There is still some uncertainty over the results. It could be a sign of a new force of nature. Muons are fundamental particles similar to electrons but about 200 times as massive. The standard model of physics is unable to account for many phenomena observed in the universe.
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😎Fun Fact
The world's largest recorded snowflake measured 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick
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