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Benedict Evans / Financial Times:

AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled after a failed coup at OpenAI, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent — Failed coups, as seen at OpenAI, often accelerate the thing that they were trying to prevent — Over the past week, OpenAI's board went through four CEOs in five days.

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Wall Street Journal:

Satya Nadella and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott were instrumental to reinstating Sam Altman atop OpenAI, which a source says was the ideal outcome for Microsoft

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Natasha Singer / New York Times:

Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those — Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.

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Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money:

A look at Binance and CZ's “Bond villain” compliance strategy and how their settlements will allow the US to deflate Binance while minimizing collateral damage — James Bond films have a certain formula to them. It is more interesting when seen from the perspective of the villain.

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Reuters:

A profile of Binance CEO Richard Teng, who faces the tough task of transforming the company's culture amid spiraling compliance costs and an ongoing SEC lawsuit

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally — A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales …

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New York Times:

Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M — Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or may do so, after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:

Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more — The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network …

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Frank Bajak / Associated Press:

A look at Replicator, a Pentagon initiative expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is reliable enough to deploy, including on weaponized systems — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones …

More: Cryptopolitan, Politico, and The Messenger

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Laura Kayali / Politico:

Russia's interior ministry adds Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone to its wanted list, according to state-owned news agency TASS — The reason Andy Stone was added to the list was not indicated, according to the Russian news agency. — Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesperson …

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Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:

A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000 — Someone accidentally paid over $3 million in fees to send $2 million in BTC. — A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly made a costly mistake …

Mark Gimein / The Atlantic:

As safety demands strip Llama 2, ChatGPT, and others of anything remotely controversial, some programmers are building uncensored LLMs without safety guardrails — A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much. Bring on the uncensored models.

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Vikas SN / Moneycontrol:

Q&A with Slack CTO Cal Henderson on how the pandemic changed Slack and workplace habits, acquisition by Salesforce, generative AI, India market, and more — The pandemic accelerated changes that were already happening in the workplace and took us forward five or 10 years in terms of workplace habits …

X: @chandrarsrikant and @chandrarsrikant

Kevin O'Reilly / iFixit News:

A side-by-side teardown of the Steam Deck OLED and Lenovo Legion Go: both are designed to be repaired by users; Steam Deck OLED scores 9/10 and Legion Go 7/10 — The holiday gaming season has brought us two cutting-edge handheld gaming devices. In one corner, we have the upstart Legion Go …

More: Digital Trends, XDA Developers, SlashGear, Windows Central, Engadget, iFixit on YouTube, Laptop Mag, and PC Gamer. X: @ifixit

Aaron Holmes / The Information:

Filing: Nvidia says regulators in the EU and China requested information about its sale of GPUs and how it allocates their supply — Regulators in Europe and China have questioned Nvidia about how it allocates its supply of highly sought-after chips used for running AI software, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.

More: Wccftech, Tom's Hardware, and Reuters. X: @northead

Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware:

Analysis: Nvidia was the world's biggest chip company by revenue in Q3, with revenue of $18.12B, vs. TSMC's $17.28B, Intel's $14.16B, and Samsung's $12.52B

More: SamMobile and TweakTown

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Forums: r/hardware, r/nvidia, and Slashdot

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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:

More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

CNBC:

Sources: Greek media company Antenna Group is in early talks to acquire Time from Marc Benioff, who bought the magazine in 2018 for $180M

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Yashraj Sharma / Wired:

Ahead of elections in India in December and 2024, political parties are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters while dodging media interviews

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:

China's Sunway unveils new CPUs with a maximum FP64 throughput of 13.8 TFLOPS, which could let China build high-performance supercomputers despite US sanctions

More: Chips and Cheese and OSnews

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Forums: r/technology and r/hardware

Michael Roddan / The Information:

FOIA docs: Prashant Bhardwaj, hired in March as the US OCC's first officer to police fintech firms, lied about his work history; OCC quietly replaced Bhardwaj

More: American Banker, Fintech Business Weekly, and Finextra

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

After users complained about seeing a fullscreen pop-up ad in Assassin's Creed Odyssey on both Xbox and PlayStation, Ubisoft blames a “technical error”