No vacation for AI, chipmakers or cybercriminals

Unsurprisingly, it was a pretty slow week for enterprise technology given the holidays, but there was still some major AI, chip, and cybersecurity news — and of course, that’s this time of year for predictions, which we began rolling out this week, with more in the weeks to come.

Here is a sample of the most notable news from this last week of the year. And don’t miss Vellante’s weekly in-depth study Breakdown analysis this weekend, when he will assess the fulfillment of his predictions for 2023.

In the meantime, we wish you all a Happy New Year for Business Technology! 🥂

Prediction Season

A quick look at 2023 and 2024, before Dave Vellante presents his detailed predictions in January: On the CUBE Pod: Review of 2023 with a look back and forecasts for the year to come

David Strom gives his thoughts on what’s coming in cybersecurity: Here are the top security threats and trends for 2024 – and how to tackle them

PwC’s Scott Likens offers insight into what’s coming and where businesses should focus first: Innovation for tomorrow: the eight essential technologies that will propel business success in 2024

And back to who said what, from Mark Albertson: They Said It in 2023: From a Journalist’s Notebook, Memorable Quotes from SiliconANGLE’s Cover

No vacation for AI

Anthropic clearly aims to become OpenAI’s main independent flagship, or at least that’s what its backers are counting on: Generative AI startup Anthropic reportedly on track to generate $850 million in annual revenue

And the big money for AI continues to flow: Defense startup Shield AI raises $300 million at a valuation of $2.8 billion

It’s hard to believe that AI companies hadn’t thought of this, except that Silicon Valley always shoots first and asks questions later, but it could prove costly: The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training On the other hand, the arguments are not necessarily as strong, and Mike Masnick at Techdirt that proves that it’s stupid. Still, it seems likely to create a mess that AI companies would rather pay to avoid.

We must not forget that China is making great progress in AI: Baidu reveals rival ChatGPT now has over 100 million users Even though it doesn’t have the latest Nvidia GPUs: Nvidia launches a scaled-down version of its latest gaming GPU in China

And from the WSJ, a worrying subject regarding China’s intentions in terms of AI: China steals AI secrets to boost espionage, US says

Is this the friendly face of AI in 2024? Meet LG’s New “AI Agent”

Microsoft launches free Copilot app for Android

GitHub Copilot Chat launches into general availability

Report: Microsoft is developing an AI-optimized Surface Pro and Surface Laptop

Apple quietly launched an open source multimodal LLM called Ferret

Danish researchers create LLM that will predict when a person might die with 78% accuracy

Around the enterprise and the cloud

Investment in chips continues to ramp up, but not necessarily because of the US chip law, which has been slow to distribute the big bucks:

Intel receives $3.2 billion grant from Israeli government to build $25 billion chip factory

Report: Samsung to delay production at new US chip factory until 2025

South Korea’s chipmaking industry comes back to life, as shipments and production increase

Toshiba to expand power management chip production with $175 million investment

A close look at an enterprise cloud migration by Paul Gillin: Business services giant saves significant money by moving to the cloud

Samsung partners with Red Hat to verify key data center scalability technology

Iris Software receives private equity investment with a valuation of £3.15 billion

Microsoft will implement a new feature to reinstall Windows without deleting any files or applications

SoftBank shares jump on T-Mobile’s $7.6 billion stock dividend

Antitrust and politics

Apple bans Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 from being sold in the US

Google to settle privacy lawsuit over Chrome’s incognito mode

Overview of emerging technologies

MicroStrategy stock gains over 350% in 2023 as it increases its exposure to bitcoin

Judge Rules Terraform Labs Luna and Mir Tokens Are Securities

Apple reportedly expects to ship 500,000 Vision Pro headsets in 2024

Cybercriminals never sleep

Operation Triangulation: a previously unknown feature in iPhones exploited for spyware purposes

GTA V source code reportedly leaked in tribute to jailed hacker Lapsus$

New variant of Chameleon Android malware emerges with fingerprint lock bypass capability

Microsoft disables vulnerable Windows component following malware campaigns

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