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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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| 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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
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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: Hindustan Times, TechCrunch, PCMag, Phandroid, PhoneArena, SamMobile, Android Central, and Engadget
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Epic v. Google: Tim Sweeney says Android is a “fake open platform”; under cross-examination, Sweeney admitted to paying a 30% cut to Sony, Xbox, and Nintendo — - Fortnite maker's CEO testifies at high-stakes antitrust trial — Google has denied abusing power in app distribution market| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about a potential merger as part of an effort to persuade Amodei to replace Sam Altman as CEO — OpenAI's board of directors approached Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of rival large-language model developer Anthropic …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/ChatGPT
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI's board offered the interim CEO role to former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Scale AI CEO Alex Wang, before Emmett Shear accepted — Before Emmett Shear accepted the Interim CEO role at OpenAI, the board offered it to Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub …
More: The Messenger, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Verge, Sharon's AI Extra, and The Information
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| 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.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a lawsuit, the US SEC accuses Kraken of commingling customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency, and dealer — The U.S. crypto exchange is the latest targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a series of similar actions being fought in court by other companies.
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X: @senlummis, @jespow, @krakenfx, @jespow, @orlando_btc, @indian_bronson, @coinbureau, @ryansadams, @0xmert_, @twobitidiot, @mayazi, @ryansadams, @cuntycakes123, @belisarius2020, @leomschwartz, @leomschwartz, @conraddit, @jseyff, @cameron, @parrotcapital, @twobitidiot, and @attorneyjeremy1. Forums: r/Bitcoin
| 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: The Register, Financial Times, TechStartups, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, ITPro, and Broadcom Inc.
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Changpeng Zhao plans to step down and plead guilty in US court to breaking money laundering laws, part of a $4.3B deal; CZ can keep Binance ownership — Zhao's crypto exchange will also admit wrongdoing and agree to pay $4.3 billion in fines — The chief executive of Binance … | 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.| 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: Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Protos, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinDesk, and CryptoPotato
X: @bitfinexed, @bondhack, and @ttmygh
Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/CryptoCurrency
| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
YouTube confirms that “users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing”, after users reported five-second delays on non-Chrome browsers — - Users are reportedly seeing a five-second delay when loading YouTube videos in non-Chrome browsers …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/youtube, r/technology, and r/technews
| 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| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Prime Video plans “shoppable ads” where viewers can scan QR codes for instant purchases, during NFL's first-ever “Black Friday” game, which it's carrying — E-commerce giant to feature exclusive deals, QR codes during NFL game to spur more purchases| Washington Post: |
Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP — MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales …
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Forums: r/atheismindia, r/india, and r/TrueReddit
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
CISA debuts a pilot program offering “cybersecurity shared services” to non-federal critical infrastructure entities in healthcare, education, and other sectors — The U.S. government is offering “cutting-edge cybersecurity shared services” to critical infrastructure organizations that need it most.Sponsor Posts
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