OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist departs, Raspberry Pi announces plans for an IPO in London

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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs. - Link

Chinese firms make headway in producing high bandwidth memory for AI chipsets. - Link

AWS confirms will launch European ‘sovereign cloud’ in Germany by 2025, plans €7.8B investment over 15 years. - Link

Raspberry Pi announces plans for an IPO in London, reportedly seeking a ~$630M valuation. - Link

Google releases Project IDX, its next-gen AI-centric browser-based IDE, in open beta, and says that 100,000+ developers tried the service in invite-only phase. - Link

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