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Binance and CZ plead guilty to federal charges as part of a $4.3B settlement with the US DOJ; charges include violating sanctions and anti-money laundering laws — - The U.S. Department of Justice has brought criminal charges against Binance and its billionaire founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Changpeng Zhao agrees to pay a criminal fine of $50M and can retain his majority ownership of Binance but can't hold an executive role at the company — Zhao's crypto exchange will also admit wrongdoing and agree to pay $4.3 billion in fines — The chief executive of Binance …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Buttcoin, r/neoliberal, and r/news
| @cz_binance: |
Changpeng Zhao steps down as CEO of Binance, and Richard Teng, formerly the Global Head of Regional Markets, has been named CEO — Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do. I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility.
| Financial Times: |
Sources: 97%+ of OpenAI staff have signed the letter threatening to quit in board standoff; investors explore legal measures to force board to reverse course — More than 95% of employees have threatened to quit and join Microsoft if board refuses to resign
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI interim CEO Emmett Shear has told people close to OpenAI that he doesn't plan to remain if the board can't clearly tell him why it fired Altman — Sam Altman and members of the OpenAI board have opened negotiations aimed at a possible return of the ousted co-founder …
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| Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: |
Sources: fruitful negotiations between OpenAI's board and Sam Altman's side are taking place; Microsoft is being kept apprised and is likely to get board seats — Update on @OpenAI situation: Many sources tell me fruitful negotiations are taking place now between @sama side (he has a crew of well known outside tech pals helping like @bchesky and @btaylor) and the board side, who are repped by @adamdangelo and interim ceo @eshear.
| Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI insiders and other sources describe the turmoil within OpenAI following Sam Altman's ousting and how Altman's supporters rallied behind him — A fired CEO, middle-finger emojis and the battle royale over the future of artificial intelligence — Sam Altman was in Las Vegas …
More: Business Insider and New York Times
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| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Anthropic debuts Claude 2.1, offering a context window of up to 200K tokens, or ~150K words, a claimed 50%+ increase in accuracy, new API integrations, and more — Claude 2.1 boasts a 150K word context window to parse long documents, 50%+ accuracy gains, early support for tool integration, and more.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Texas' AG, “troubled” by Elon Musk's claims, probes Media Matters, which calls X's suit “frivolous”; X avoids anti-SLAPP statutes by filing in the 5th Circuit — X, formerly Twitter, has followed through with owner Elon Musk's threat to sue the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos to make a long-awaited push into headphones with a $400 model coming as early as April, is working on a video service and streaming device, more — - Company plans to compete with Bose and Apple with headphones — New Roam speaker, high-end sound bar and video service coming
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Former OpenAI President Greg Brockman announces that ChatGPT's voice narration feature is now available to all free users — Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman — who, as far as we're aware, isn't currently employed at OpenAI in any capacity — is posting updates about OpenAI products on X …
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Threads: @wongmjane. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @openai, @ryanmorrisonjer, @romainhuet, @khademinori, @joannastern, @woj_zaremba, @autismcapital, @nickaturley, @levie, @kantrowitz, and @gdb. Forums: Hacker News
| Anel Islamovic / Stability AI: |
Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion in research preview, its first foundation model for generative video based on the Stable Diffusion image model — Today, we are releasing Stable Video Diffusion, our first foundation model for generative video based on the image model Stable Diffusion.
More: TechCrunch, The Decoder, and Stack Diary
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Forums: Hacker News, r/StableDiffusion, and r/MachineLearning
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 206% YoY to $18.12B, vs. $16.18B est., Data Center revenue up 279% YoY to $14.51B, and net income up 1,259% YoY to $9.2B — - Nvidia's results surpassed analysts' projections for revenue and income in the fiscal fourth quarter.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Del Harvey, who led Twitter's trust and safety team for 13 years until 2021, on the X rebrand, her role, Gamergate, Donald Trump, January 6, and more — From Israel vs. Hamas threats to Donald Trump's “wild” posts, Del Harvey helped make the platform's hardest content moderation calls for 13 years.
More: Business Insider. Mastodon: @anildash@me.dm, @kennwhite@mastodon.social, @aulia@octodon.social, and @igb@mastodon.hccp.org
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Forums: r/Twitter and r/Fuckthealtright
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify unveils new royalty policies from 2024: tracks must hit 1,000 streams in the previous year and noise recordings must be over two minutes — The company claims the updates will drive an additional $1 billion toward artists, by re-directing the payments that had previously gone to fraudulent streams …
More: Spotify for Artists, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Billboard, TechCrunch, and Engadget
| The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: a Google exec confirms that Spotify pays no commission when users buy subscriptions via Spotify's payment system and 4% when they pay via Google — Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments …
More: Gizchina, GreekReporter.com, Hindustan Times, Android Central, and Engadget
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
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| Winston Cho / Hollywood Reporter: |
A US district judge dismisses most claims in a lawsuit by Sarah Silverman and other authors against Meta's use of copyrighted material to train Llama models — The ruling builds upon findings from another federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against AI art generators, who similarly delivered … | Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Palantir and Accenture win a £480M NHS contract to overhaul the UK's patient data system; some worry about privacy as patients can't opt out of data sharing — - Platform will help hospitals detect patterns in medical data — Palantir's software managed UK's Covid vaccine rollout| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A London tribunal rules Sony must face a lawsuit alleging it abused its dominance by forcing digital games and add-ons to be bought and sold only via its store — Sony (6758.T) must face a mass lawsuit worth up to 6.3 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) over claims the PlayStation maker abused … | Semafor: |
Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, one of the most prominent backers of “effective altruism”, now questions the merits of running companies based on the philosophy — One of the most prominent backers of the “effective altruism” movement at the heart of the ongoing turmoil at OpenAI …
More: Reuters
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Broadcom plans to close its $69B VMware acquisition on November 22, after receiving approval from Chinese regulators, which added new restrictions — Broadcom (AVGO.O) said it planned to close its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing firm VMWare (VMW.N) on Wednesday …
More: San Francisco Business Times, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, TechStartups, PR Newswire, and Bloomberg
X: @ctoadvisor and @ryanshrout
| The Information: |
Tiger Global Management's Scott Shleifer will transition from his role leading private investments to a senior adviser role, effective January 1, 2024 — Scott Shleifer, a key architect of Tiger Global Management's aggressive private tech dealmaking during the 2020-2022 startup boom …
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Axios
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
LucidLink, which helps teams work on files without having to download or sync them, raised a $75M Series C and says it has nearly 5x ARR growth over two years — LucidLink, a startup offering a platform that enables teams to work on files without having to download or sync them …
More: Blocks and Files and LucidLink
| Financial Times: |
Filings: Tether deposited $1B+ with Britannia Financial, founded by a Tory donor later charged by the US with bribery, a rare look at its banking relationships — Funds from the world's largest stablecoin issuer are at the centre of a High Court battle — Tether deposited more than $1bn …
More: Cointelegraph and Bitcoinist.com
X: @bitfinexed, @bondhack, and @ttmygh
Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/CryptoCurrency
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