Big Chip Energy - TechLinked Nov. 29, 2023

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Q&A

Amazon reveals AI chatbot, chips, Nvidia partnership — with a Jensen Huang cameo and OpenAI dig

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aws-reveals-ai-chatbot-chips-nvidia-partnership--with-a-jensen-huang-cameo-and-openai-dig-192339608.html

Graviton4 chip https://www.anandtech.com/show/21172/amazon-unveils-graviton4-a-96core-cpu-with-5367-gbs-memory-bandwidth

And Trainium2 https://www.servethehome.com/aws-graviton4-is-an-even-bigger-arm-server-processor-and-trainium2-for-ai-nvidia/

Nvidia partnership

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/aws-nvidia/

Amazon’s Q AI assistant lets users ask questions about their company’s data

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23980203/aws-amazon-query-generative-ai

based on LLMs from Anthropic, Meta AND Amazon’s own ‘Titan’ family of LLMs

https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/titan/

OpenAI’s secret breakthrough was code-named Q*

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/openai-sam-altman-q-algorithm-breakthrough-project/676163/

 

HIT THE BRAKES

Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/car-dealers-say-they-cant-sell-evs-tell-biden-to-slow-their-rollout/

US EV hit record sales this year

https://apnews.com/article/automakers-electric-vehicles-us-china-sales-d121c09a61f50e7357f5675af4b6056b

9 US States have bans planned https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/states-banning-new-gas-powered-cars/

GM wants you to know that it’s also unhappy with the slow pace of its EV business

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23980841/gm-mary-barra-ev-ultium-delay-cruise-cost-slash

Toyota chairman always thought hybrids would win, has an ‘I told you so’ moment

https://jalopnik.com/toyota-s-chairman-is-having-his-i-told-you-so-moment-1850958887

 

BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN

Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/backlash-over-fake-female-speakers-shuts-down-developer-conference/

Accusation by writer/engineer Gergely Orosz

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1728177708608450705

                Example: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1728314018627006492

Has been happening for years?

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1728343286090248627

This dev conference organizer seems to have invented a bunch of fake women to list as speakers

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23978254/devternity-jdkon-developer-conference-fake-women-speakers

 

QUICK BITS

 

GOLDMAN, SACKED

Apple ends Goldman Sachs Credit Card partnership

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-28/apple-is-preparing-to-exit-goldman-credit-card-pact-wsj-says

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/apple-pulls-plug-on-goldman-credit-card-partnership-ca1dfb45

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/companies/apple-is-trying-to-unwind-its-goldman-sachs-credit-card-partnership/ar-AA1kGYaB

 

PANIC! AT THE POST-OFFICE

Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail

https://www.startribune.com/post-office-in-bemidji-was-told-to-prioritize-amazon-packages-chaos-ensued/600322984/

https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/postal-workers-in-bemidji-protest-unsustainable-working-conditions-amazon-prioritization

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/residents-of-the-san-juan-island-accuse-amazon-of-overwhelming-post-offices  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/28/amazon-missed-mail-rural-towns/

 

LINES ON A SCREEN - $150

$149 USD firmware for the Sony A7IV camera for more gridlines

https://pressroom.pixelshift.studio/sony-electronics-announces-custom-gridline-license-available-for-alpha-camera-bodies

https://www.notebookcheck.net/US-149-Sony-A7-IV-firmware-licence-unlocks-4-custom-PNG-grid-lines-for-professional-photographers.775230.0.html

Sony has a thing where it keeps pumping out new cameras, while not really supporting previous models

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2023/11/13/the-latest-firmware-shows-the-death-of-the-sony-a7-iv/

 

MINI Z

The first Ryzen Z1 Mini PC has been benchmarked, reaches 40W

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ryzen-z1-mini-pc-benchmarked

Hands on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGaIO6Jbqg4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

Extreme version planned

https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-AMD-Ryzen-Z1-mini-PC-showcased-with-Ryzen-Z1-Extreme-model-also-planned.774929.0.html

 

DMCA’S MOST WANTED

Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/weird-dmca-takedown-google-play-bans-app-because-it-can-load-warnerbros-com/

https://torrentfreak.com/google-bans-downloader-again-following-markscan-dmca-notice-231128/

It’s back

https://cordcuttersnews.com/google-restores-the-downloader-app-after-dmca-request-from-warner-bros-discovery/