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In today's Techpresso:

🛒 Amazon’s new AI agent will shop for you

🔧 Intel and TSMC agree to form chipmaking joint venture

🎓 OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI

📉 Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans

🎨 Midjourney releases its first new AI image model in nearly a year

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🛒 Amazon’s new AI agent will shop for you LINK
  • Amazon is testing "Buy for Me," a new AI shopping agent powered by Amazon Nova AI models and Anthropic's Claude, which can purchase products from external websites without users leaving the Amazon app.
  • The feature securely inserts users' billing information on third-party sites through encryption, differentiating it from competitors like OpenAI and Google that require manual credit card entry for purchases.
  • Despite potential concerns about AI hallucinations or mistakes in purchasing, Amazon's agent handles the entire transaction process, directing users to the original digital storefront for any returns or exchanges.
🔧 Intel and TSMC agree to form chipmaking joint venture LINK
  • Intel and TSMC have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture operating Intel's U.S. fabs, with TSMC owning 20% of the partnership, according to sources cited by Reuters.
  • The arrangement was allegedly influenced by the U.S. government as part of efforts to stabilize Intel's operations, while preventing complete foreign ownership of Intel's manufacturing facilities.
  • Financial markets responded quickly to the news with Intel's stock price rising nearly 7%, while TSMC's U.S.-traded shares dropped approximately 6% following the report.
🎓 OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI LINK
  • OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to capture college students' attention, with Anthropic launching Claude for Education featuring Learning mode, while OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Plus to U.S. and Canadian students through May.
  • Anthropic's Learning mode aims to develop critical thinking by using Socratic questioning instead of providing direct answers, partnering with institutions like Northeastern University and London School of Economics.
  • The competition to embed AI tools in academia reveals both companies' desire to shape how future generations interact with AI, with OpenAI already committing $50 million to research across 15 colleges.
📉 Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans LINK
  • Microsoft has halted or postponed multiple data center projects across various global locations including Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Australia, and several U.S. states, according to a Bloomberg report.
  • The company's scaling back could be due to lower AI service adoption, power constraints, or CEO Satya Nadella's expectation of computing capacity oversupply in coming years as prices are likely to decrease.
  • Despite planned investments of approximately $80 billion in data centers for the current fiscal year, Microsoft has signaled slower investment ahead while still lacking significant revenue from AI products like Copilot.
🎨 Midjourney releases its first new AI image model in nearly a year LINK
  • Midjourney has released its V7 AI image model after a nearly year-long wait, featuring a "totally different architecture" that handles text prompts more intelligently and creates higher-quality images with better textures and details.
  • The new model requires users to rate approximately 200 images to build a personalization profile, and it comes in two versions - Turbo and Relax - along with a Draft Mode that renders images ten times faster at half the cost.
  • Despite facing lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement, the San Francisco-based company has been financially successful, reportedly expecting around $200 million in revenue in late 2023 without taking outside investment.

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Other news & articles you might like

  • SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster LINK
  • EU could fine Elon Musk’s X $1B over illicit content, disinformation LINK
  • SpinLaunch eyes breaking SpaceX record with 250 satellites in orbit with single launch LINK
  • Here's the original source code for Microsoft's very first product LINK
  • ChatGPT users have generated over 700M images since last week, OpenAI says LINK
  • Nvidia confirms the Switch 2 supports DLSS, G-Sync, and ray-tracing LINK
  • AMD moves 3x more CPUs than Intel, rakes in 5x the revenue on Amazon LINK
  • Why Trump's tariffs are so bad for Big Tech LINK
  • Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says LINK
  • Google DeepMind releases its plan to keep AGI from running wild LINK
  • Google is shipping Gemini models faster than its AI safety reports LINK

Latest research and tools

Gumroad is now open source: a platform that allows creators to sell products directly to customers, tracking what works best through analytics and feedback. LINK
DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling: the paper introduces a method to improve generalist reward modeling by scaling up model predictions during inference without requiring additional training. LINK
Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors: this paper proposes a memory banking scheme for SIMT processors that reduces area overhead while maintaining performance. LINK
A Study of Undefined Behavior Across Foreign Function Boundaries in Rust Libs: researchers found that undefined behavior in foreign function interfaces can lead to memory safety issues in Rust libraries. LINK

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