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Quick Hits

90 exaflops: Taiwan builds AI supercomputer.

AI ‘enablers’: Researchers win Nobel Prize.

Battery ban: eBay axes e-bikes.

Box office bust: HBO Bitcoin docu rebuffed.

Evolving alliance: AI Alliance adds cloud.

Fair Play: Judge opens app store to rivals.

Engagement engine: Glassdoor is the next LI.

EU hubs: OpenAI eyes Paris, Brussels.

Exec exit: Tesla vehicle chief jumps to Waymo.

Crypto payback: FTX repays customers.

Historic rebirth: Teen beats Tetris.

GPU goldmine: Super Micro surges.

‘Robofab’: Humanoids fabricate Spanx.

Wake up with Mario: Nintendo’s alarm clock.

Int’l Discord: Turkey, Russia block app.

Trending Startups

Amazon develops AI ‘culture coach’

Amid RTO mandates, Amazon offers young employees access to a generative AI “culture coach” to provide guidance to young employees.

Legal AI unicorn ‘scales top performers’

Newly minted legal AI unicorn EvenUp automates the work of 1k+ law firms stretched thin on talent. "They need technology to scale their top performers,” co-founder Rami Karabibar says.

AI’s double Nobel Prize win

Google’s DeepMind claims half of a Nobel Prize for proteins prediction in a second Nobel win for AI.

Adobe releases ‘nutrition label’ for creators

Adobe released a free tool to help creators protect their work from generative AI training and add context to work they do wish to share.

Airline launches AI startup

Alaska Airlines’ new venture, Odysee, develops AI tools to optimize airline flight schedules.

AI for technical documentation

Driver launched an AI platform to automate lengthy technical documentation in the semiconductor industry.

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