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Google’s new AI compression could cut demand for NAND, pressuring Micron

A new compression technique from Google Research threatens to shrink the memory footprint of large AI models so dramatically ...

Sandisk: The Market Is Dead Wrong (Rating Upgrade)

Sandisk stock fell ~7% after Google TurboQuant, but compression applies only to KV cache, not total storage demand. Learn why SNDK stock is upgraded to strong buy.
Reuters

TikTok seals deal for new US joint venture to avoid American ban

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, on Thursday said it has finalized a deal to establish a majority American-owned joint venture that will secure U.S. data, to avoid a U ...
VentureBeat

X open sources its algorithm: 5 ways businesses can benefit

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly ...
The National Law Review

Pricing Algorithms – Price Tags and Personal and Competitor Data- States Step Up Algorithmic Pricing Regulation

We collaborate with the world's leading lawyers to deliver news tailored for you. Sign Up for any (or all) of our 25+ Newsletters. Some states have laws and ethical rules regarding solicitation and ...
Bleeping Computer

Kraken ransomware benchmarks systems for optimal encryption choice

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt data without overloading them. According to Cisco Talos researchers, ...
The Washington Post

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
NBC New York

TikTok's algorithm and data will be controlled ‘by America,' White House says

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Saturday revealed further details of a deal reached between the U.S. and China over control of the popular social media platform TikTok, sharing that ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Fiserv, UPS, and Regions Bank on Creating the Data Foundation for an Optimal Customer Experience

Prasanna Dhoré, Chief Data Officer, Fiserv; Mallory Freeman, President, Global Enterprise Data Analytics & GenAI, UPS; Manav Misra, Executive Vice President & Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Regions ...
Reuters

Paris prosecutors say they requested information about algorithm, not private data, from Musk's X

PARIS, July 21 (Reuters) - Paris prosecutors requested information from social media platform X about its algorithm as part of a probe into organised gangs' possible tampering with an automated data ...