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This article originally appeared in Exporter, a weekly newsletter covering the latest on U.S. tech giants and their impact outside the West, with Russell Brandom. SIGN UP HERE> Last week, I wrote about the flood of appeals coming to the Oversight Board about the bloodshed in Israel and Gaza. Now, the board is starting to take action on those appeals, launching expedited reviews of two cases: one involving footage of kidnapped Israelis and another showing the aftermath of the strike on the al-Shifa Hospital. The reviews were announced this morning, with a final ruling expected within 30 days. It feels odd to say it, but the most successful tech company of the year is a hardware components business. Nvidia has had an incredible year, tripling its market cap over the course of 2023. The company’s processing systems are at the heart of ChatGPT and the new wave of large language models (LLMs). As companies like Meta scramble to catch up, it means spending billions on more hardware from the

Rest of World/NVIDIA By Russell Brandom 7 December 2023 Exporter Newsletter Casualties of the chip war By Russell Brandom > Exporter Newsletter This article is originally from Exporter, a newsletter covering the latest on U.S. tech giants and their impact outside the West. You can read past editions here. Last week , I wrote about the flood of appeals coming to the Oversight Board about the bloodshed in Israel and Gaza. Now, the board is starting to take action on those appeals, launching expedited reviews of two cases: one involving footage of kidnapped Israelis and another showing the afterm

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