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December 18, 2023, 6:35 AM
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Disney, WBD, and other studios are licensing more content to Netflix in return for much-needed cash, but are holding back their most popular movies and shows  —  When building their own streaming companies, many entertainment studios ended lucrative licensing deals with Netflix.
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Saudi shopping and BNPL startup Tamara raised a $340M Series C led by PIF-owned SNB Capital at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $500M since 2020  —  Tamara, a buy now pay later platform for consumers in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, has raised $340 million in a financing round that values the fintech at $1 billion.
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Wall Street Journal:
Western intelligence officials say that former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek, who fled to Moscow after nearly $2B went missing, was likely a Russian agent for years  —  Jan Marsalek, the jet-setting former COO of now-defunct Wirecard, enabled Moscow to fund covert operations around the world, officials say; ‘whiff of Silicon Valley’
Justine Calma / The Verge:
How conservationists are using AI tool CeruleanAI, developed by the Coral Restoration Foundation, to analyze 3D maps of reefs and monitor restoration  —  Time is running out to save the world's coral reefs, so conservationists are turning to every tool they can to protect vanishing reefs — including AI.

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Washington Post:
How NewsGuard, which attained “sustainable profitability” six years after its launch, became a prime target of the GOP's battle against disinformation watchdogs

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

Inside Radio:
iHeart reduces its total debt by over $440M and extends most of its debt maturities by three years, by using debt exchange transactions

More News

Washington Post:
Experts and lawmakers say Tesla's largest recall yet is unlikely to solve Autopilot's fundamental flaw: Tesla failing to limit where drivers can use the feature
Yue Wang / Forbes:
SenseTime says co-founder Tang Xiao'ou, who was also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness at 55; 0020.HK drops 11%
George Hammond / Financial Times:
An interview with Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on the lack of resources for academic AI, Silicon Valley's “bro” culture, keeping AI safe for humanity, and more
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleads guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3M from Nirvana Finance and an unnamed crypto exchange in July 2022
Erin Woo / The Information:
A look at the wearable AI race as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban smart glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed GPT-4 with Vision for Snap's devices

Earlier Picks

Michael Acton / Financial Times:
An interview with Tim Sweeney about Epic's win over Google and his concern that Google will “get away with continuing their scheme” by offering “fake” remedies
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces contingent pricing for App Store subscriptions, letting developers give users a discounted price if they are subscribed to another subscription
Alex Heath / The Verge:
OpenAI says “ByteDance's use of our API was minimal”, but suspends the account and investigates, after a report that ByteDance used OpenAI's API for its own LLM
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:
How Spamouflage Dragon, China's largest disinformation campaign per Google and Meta, infiltrates platforms to promote Chinese policies and criticize dissidents
New York Times:
California drops its Activision Blizzard sexual harassment 2021 case, saying investigations didn't substantiate any allegations; Activision agrees to pay ~$54M
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