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November 14, 2023, 1:30 PM

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Chris Velazco / Washington Post:
Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, which can send iMessages to contacts with iPhones, to Phone (2) users, in partnership with Sunbird  —  Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before  —  Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they have uploaded realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including using its own tools, in 2024  —  Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties  —  YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
Google DeepMind details GraphCast AI, a weather forecasting AI that is more accurate for 3-10 day predictions than the best conventional systems, a first for AI  —  Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
James Somers / New Yorker:
A eulogy for coding, which has felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after LLMs swallowed bodies of knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master  —  Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain.  Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret  —  Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Civitai, where users share AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, announces a $5M seed led by a16z, after launching a “bounties” feature  —  Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers collect and sell browsing data in greater detail than previously known, including on those in sensitive jobs  —  Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Nathan Grayson / Aftermath:
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and eliminates 180+ jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023  —  Video game workers just can't catch a break  —  Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing shows that Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales from its early 2022 launch through H1 2023  —  The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more  —  Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them.  Inside the humble workshop …
More: The VergeMastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …X: @mkbhd and @mikehofmanLinkedIn: Farul Mohd Ghazali
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out the option for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account, addressing an early complaint with the app  —  Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too.
Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg:
Sources: instead of a 51% stake, Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, after pressures tied to Russia's war in Ukraine  —  - Deal to sell Russian unit may be announced in December  — Dutch-registered Yandex previously planned to sell a 51% stake
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