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December 2, 2023, 10:40 PM

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Jon Victor / The Information:
Sources: Google delayed the public launch of Gemini from next week to January 2024, after finding that the LLM didn't reliably handle some non-English queries  —  Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …
Tara García Mathewson / The Markup:
How a California college is employing data collection tools to track students' daily movements, including e-proctoring software and license plate readers  —  A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech …
Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel:
Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the entire team at the maker of photo and video apps, including its founder and CEO  —  Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …
Anthony Ha / Engadget:
A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads  —  Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.  —  YouTube recently took dramatic action …
Platformer:
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
Counterpoint Research:
Global smartwatch shipments grew 9% YoY in Q3 2023: Apple had its best-ever Q3 performance with shipments up 7% YoY, Huawei grew 56%, and Samsung fell 19%  —  - The global smartwatch market rebounded with a 9% YoY rise in Q3 2023 shipments, continuing the upward trend from the previous quarter.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systemically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including those by Pichai  —  On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company's conduct …
Alyson Shontell / Fortune:
A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund  —  How Joshua Kushner won over Silicon Valley CEOs and built a $5.3 billion venture firm outside his famous family.
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Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
The US, the UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance  —  - US, Australian and UK set to test sonar data processed by AI  — Plan is part of Aukus security alliance formed to deter China

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