Department of Commerce approves Nvidia H200 chip exports to China
This news comes as a bill was introduced in Congress last week to prevent these exact kinds of chip exports.
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Google’s AI try-on app Doppl adds a shoppable discovery feed
The tech giant says the idea behind the new feed is to display recommendations so users can discover and virtually try on items. Nearly everything in the feed is shoppable, with direct links to merchants.
Lucid Motors’ former chief engineer sues for wrongful termination and discrimination
Eric Bach, who was fired in November, claims a top HR executive at the automaker called him a “German Nazi.”
Tiger Global plans cautious venture future with a new $2.2B fund
Tiger’s last fund did well with investmetments in OpenAI, Waymo and Databricks. But it warns investors that AI valuations are already ‘elevated.’
Environmental groups call for halt to new data center construction
More than 230 organizations signed a public letter urging members of Congress to take action.
Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds
Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It’s part of a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration that could reshape software workflows.
The Apple Watch Series 11 just got a big $100 discount ahead of the holidays
We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw […]
Anthropic is bringing Claude Code to Slack
Slack users can now access Anthropic’s Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview. When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it’s a coding task and, if so, route it to […]
Lenovo’s next gaming laptop may have a rollable OLED screen that stretches ultrawide
Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, […]
It’s ugly, it’s beautiful, it’s how you know a game might be a classic
At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like […]