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X accelerates its plan to attract ad spending by SMBs, including outsourcing some ad sales to third parties, such as US-based marketing startup JumpCrew — Social media site accelerates plan to attract small businesses as billionaire owner battles big brands
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Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations — Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A profile of Apple's chip division, including interviews with its head Johny Srouji and Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus — WATCH NOW — Why Apple doubled down on the expensive custom chip business, edging out Intel and starting a trend — Apple's soaring stock price …
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Phil Spencer says Microsoft has “no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo” after Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said Microsoft wants to target “every screen” — In our exclusive interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, we got a glimpse of the future of Xbox …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: OpenAI delays its GPT store until early 2024 after “a few unexpected things have been keeping us busy”; the company had planned to launch in November 2023 — OpenAI will delay the launch of a GPT store until early next year, according to a memo to developers seen by Axios.
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| Charles Duhigg / New Yorker: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon signs a SpaceX contract for three Falcon 9 rocket launches, set to begin in mid-2025, to help put its Project Kuiper satellite constellation into orbit — - Amazon's Project Kuiper has been delayed by rocket setbacks — Company also aims to use rockets from ULA, Bezos' Blue Origin| TechCrunch: |
Filing: hackers accessed 0.1% of user accounts in 23andMe's data breach that the company disclosed in October 2023; 23andMe reported 14M+ customers in May 2023 — Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company's recent data breach.| Associated Press: |
A councilman for the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre reveals that a resolution the city council approved unanimously in October 2023 was written by ChatGPT — City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation's first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn't know it at the time.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
France's prime minister recommends government staff uninstall foreign apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, in favor of French chat app Olvid — Prime Minister of France Élisabeth Borne signed a circular last week requesting all government employees …
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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple and Paramount have discussed an Apple TV+ and Paramount+ bundle that would cost less than subscribing to both streaming services separately — Streamers are increasingly joining with rivals to offer bundles that help attract and keep subscribers
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Forums: r/MLS, r/tvPlus, and MacRumors Forums
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Meta announces Seamless Communication, a suite of AI translation models that aim to enable more natural and authentic communication across languages — Meta AI researchers announced on Thursday that they have developed a new suite of artificial intelligence models called Seamless Communication …
More: Meta, Meta, Stack Diary, Simon Willison's Weblog, Hugging Face, and The Decoder
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Tests: Meta's recommendation systems promote underage sex content on Instagram and Facebook Groups, despite Meta setting up a child-safety task force in June — The social-media company has stepped up enforcement, but its algorithms continue to promote problematic content
More: Meta, Engadget, PetaPixel, and The Messenger
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| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at China's efforts to help Huawei build a self-sufficient chip supply chain via a network of enterprises backed by Shenzhen's investment fund — Less than five years after US sanctions nearly crippled Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese giant is now Beijing's most important weapon …
More: Notebookcheck, Light Reading, Android Headlines, SamMobile, GSMArena.com, and Engadget
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google says RCS in Google Messages now has over 1B MAUs, and adds Photomoji, Voice Moods, Screen Effects, Custom Bubbles, Animated Emoji, and other features — First, the number: according to Google, over 1 billion monthly active users are using RCS in Google Messages.
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Threads: @sundarpichai, @michaelabrwnjr, and @backlon
LinkedIn: Sanaz Ahari Lemelson and Craig Lennon
Forums: r/google, r/GooglePixel, and r/GoogleMessages
| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
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