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Spotify plans to lay off ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 staff, to “rightsize” its costs, citing slow growth and rising capital costs, after cutting 6% in June — Spotify is eliminating about 17% jobs, its third round of layoffs, as the music streaming looks to become “both productive and efficient.”
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A deep dive into the founding of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as many of their backers feared the risks of advanced AI but wanted the power to shape it — The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Disinformation scholar Joan Donovan claims in a whistleblower filing that her superiors soured on her as Harvard got the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's $500M gift — In a whistleblower complaint, she breaks her silence over events that unsettled other misinformation researchers| Peter Martin / Bloomberg: |
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says her department needs more money to stop China on chips and calls out Nvidia for redesigning for the Chinese market — - US commerce secretary cites Nvidia designs as case in point — Tells chip CEOs ‘such is life’ as US security trumps revenue
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Documents: OpenAI signed a letter of intent in 2019 to spend $51M on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain AI, in which Sam Altman had invested $1M+ — Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and r/singularity
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Internal memo: ByteDance plans to release a “bot development platform” in beta by the end of December, to let users create their own AI chatbots — ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is working on an open platform that will allow users to create their own chatbots …
More: WinBuzzer, The Decoder, Tech in Asia, and Analytics India Magazine
| Anto Antony / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Byju's founder Byju Raveendran pledged his and his family's homes as collateral to borrow ~$12M to raise money to pay staff, to fight a cash crunch — - Founder has raised $400 million in debt to keep firm afloat — Company is also seeking to raise funds through asset sales
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| Financial Times: |
IBM announces 10 quantum computing projects, focusing on areas like simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science — Use of technology to solve scientific problems still falls short of commercialisation — Quantum computing is starting to fulfil …
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| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin trades above $40K for the first time since May 2022, as the digital asset extends its 2023 rebound on expectations of interest-rate cuts and ETF demand — - Crypto rally has been driven by ETF hopes, rate-cut bets — Bitcoin is on track for biggest annual gain since 2020
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Chase Bank could be an ideal Goldman Sachs replacement for Apple Card, as it uses the same Mastercard network and already has a strong relationship with Apple — Apple and Goldman Sachs are on the verge of splitting up, and Chase is the ideal partner to step in.
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/AppleCard, and r/apple
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on ChatGPT's launch, GPT-4, DALL-E, overhyping AI, the business of generative AI, ChatGPT Enterprise, multimodal AI, and more — - CNBC conducted an exclusive interview with the COO of the hottest startup in tech after its recent Dev Day, then followed up after the Sam Altman kerfuffle.| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp updates its iOS app to let users send photos and videos in their original quality — WhatsApp has just submitted a new stable update for iOS, available on the App Store: the build number is 23.24.73. — What's new in this update? WhatsApp is widely rolling out a feature to send original quality media as a file!
More: The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and Gadgets Now
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