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Spotify lays off ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 staff, to “rightsize” its costs, citing slow economic growth and rising capital costs, its third cut in 2023 — 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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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Disinformation scholar Joan Donovan claims in a whistleblower filing that her superiors dismissed her after Harvard got 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's chip gains and calls out Nvidia for redesigning around the US' curbs — - 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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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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Investigation: Russia- and China-linked hackers targeted UK nuclear site Sellafield with sleeper malware as far back as 2015; the full extent is still unknown — Exclusive: Malware may still be present and potential effects have been covered up by staff, investigation reveals| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp updates its iOS app to let users send photos and videos in their original quality files, start voice chats without ringing in large groups, and more — 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?
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| Anto Antony / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Byju's founder Byju Raveendran pledged his and his family's homes as collateral to borrow ~$12M to raise ~$400M in debt to pay staff amid a cash crunch — - Founder has raised $400 million in debt to keep firm afloat — Company is also seeking to raise funds through asset sales| Chris Reardon / Wired: |
Sony Access controller review: beautifully designed with the help of disabled gamers, highly configurable, and perfect for lap use, but missing some features — Sony's first accessible controller is an excellent start and a welcome new part of PlayStation's lineup, but it has a ways to go before being truly incredible.
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A group of 83 Spanish media outlets files a lawsuit against Meta, citing unfair competition in the ad market due to its “massive” and “systematic” use of data — A group representing 83 Spanish media outlets on Monday said it has filed a 550 million euro ($598 million) …
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| 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 …
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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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| 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.
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