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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive attempt to limit the use of the technology; the law still needs to go through a few steps for approval — The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world's first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of artificial intelligence.
More: European Parliament, Associated Press, Ars Technica, The Hill, Reuters, CNET, TechCrunch, Wired, The Guardian, Axios, NBC News, Android Central, The Verge, Engadget, Bloomberg, InfoRiskToday.com, European Commission, CNN, Forbes, Politico, Financial Times, EnterpriseAI, and Silicon Canals
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LinkedIn: Ali Abedini and Dominique Shelton Leipzig
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Source: the US FTC is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and potentially antitrust law violations but hasn't opened a formal investigation — - The agency hasn't opened a formal probe into Microsoft-OpenAI — Microsoft didn't report deal to FTC due to non-profit status| Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA is considering an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and is taking comments until January 3 before making a decision — - CMA seeking views on whether the relationship should be probed — Move is less than two months since watchdog cleared Activision
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Sources: complaints from some senior OpenAI leaders that Sam Altman had been psychologically abusive were a major factor in the board's decision to fire Altman — The senior employees described Altman as psychologically abusive, creating chaos at the artificial-intelligence start-up …
More: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Inc.com, The Information, and New York Post
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How author Steven Johnson, now a Google employee for over a year, helped create NotebookLM, which lets writers extract key themes from their research material — Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer's research material and help them extract and explore the key themes.
More: The Keyword, Android Central, BGR, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, and ZDNet
X: @stevenbjohnson, @stevenlevy, @stevenbjohnson, @bethnoveck, and @jvquantum. LinkedIn: Matthew Devost
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app's ability to function — Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: X has held preliminary talks with Amazon to make ads available via Amazon's ad-buying software, and PubMatic, seeking to attract more small advertisers — Social-media platform has had preliminary talks with Amazon to sell ads through e-commerce giant's ad-buying software
More: The Guardian, NPR, Forbes, Fortune, Reuters, The Messenger, TweakTown, and CNN
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is reorganizing its hardware engineering group as Tang Tan, its VP in charge of iPhone and Watch product design, plans to leave in February 2024 — - Tang Tan is set to leave the tech company in February — Departure will spur changes at hardware engineering group
More: 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, Yahoo Finance, MacRumors, Ars Technica, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, The Messenger, and MarketWatch
| Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days — Days after a data breach allowed hackers to steal 6.9 million 23andMe users' personal details, the genetic testing company changed …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's Lightspeed LA studio reveals Last Sentinel, an ambitious console game by GTA veteran Steve Martin and part of Tencent's push to create IP from scratch — - Lightspeed LA reveals ‘Last Sentinel’ at The Game Awards — AAA game sets the stage in a futuristic, cyberpunk Tokyo| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An untitled countdown timer viewable only on the Threads.net homepage in EU countries suggests that the service will be expanded to EU users on December 14 — Following its rollout in countries like the US and UK this past July, Threads will finally be expanded to users in the European Union on December 14th.
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Threads: @jackcarterbenjamin, @kbode, @wojespn, @alexheath, @argent_studio_, and @mattnavarra. X: @aj_malakai. Forums: Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Malaysia's YTL Power partners with Nvidia in a $4.3B investment deal to create AI infrastructure in the country, including building a supercomputer in Malaysia — Malaysian conglomerate YTL's utilities unit (YTLP.KL) will partner with U.S technology giant Nvidia (NVDA.O) …
More: Nikkei Asia, Tech Xplore, Tech in Asia, and Reuters
X: @jeff4malaysia, @imnormgoh, and @imnormgoh
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
a16z-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere, is shutting down; D2iQ raised $250M and was valued at $775M in 2018 — Andreessen Horowitz-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere and which was once popular with software developers, is shutting down.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Grok's example responses that Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor can feel forced and try-hard — Fine. Let's talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever.
More: Voicebot.ai, VICE, MSPoweruser, Android Headlines, MobileSyrup, MediaPost, The Decoder, Search Engine Land, Mashable, The Hindu, TweakTown, TechCrunch, and Reuters
X: @x, @elonmusk, @emollick, @drjimfan, @elonmusk, @nivi, @brianroemmele, @samparkersenate, @dannycantalk, @iamnot_elon, @neerajka, @wallstreetsilv, @basedtorba, @nearcyan, @benbajarin, @trungtphan, @wecrusaders, @aravsrinivas, @hassankhan, @benbajarin, @alx, @elonmuskaoc, @bipocracism, @nickadobos, @seanmdav, @brianroemmele, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @neerajka, @stillgray, @marvinvonhagen, and @elonmusk
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft agrees to convert 77 TCWGlobal contract staff at ZeniMax into unionized employees, as part of negotiations with CWA-affiliated ZeniMax Workers United — - Move expands organized labor's foothold at software giant — As direct employees, staffers will also receive raises, perks
More: MobileSyrup, Kotaku, Engadget, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, and Windows Central
X: @ethangach, @ethangach, @josheidelson, @3vansutton, @code_cwa, and @josheidelson
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple and its suppliers aim to make 50M+ iPhones annually in India in two to three years, which would account for a quarter of global iPhone production — Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China
More: Times of India, TimesNow, Daily Mail, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, GSMArena.com, CNBC, FE Tech Bytes, ReadWrite, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, BGR, Benzinga, and Engadget
X: @markgurman and @abhi_banarasi
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