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Sources: Apple discussed multiyear $50M+ deals with NBC News, Condé Nast, IAC, and other media organizations to train its generative AI systems on news articles — The company has discussed multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to train its generative A.I. systems on publishers' news articles.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise funding at a $100B+ valuation, and discussed raising between $8B and $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42 for a chip venture — OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above $100 billion …
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| Ken White / The Popehat Report: |
Substack brands itself as avoiding value judgments, but its justification for allowing certain offensive speech is full of value judgments, chosen to make money — Dealing With Nazis, Or Not, Can Be A Brand. Substack's Monetizing It. — Substack has Nazis, because of course it does.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Bluesky releases a public web view, allowing users to view posts on the platform without being logged in, and unveils a new logo with a butterfly — Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don't need to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A Google Play Services update suggests Google's file-sharing feature Nearby Share could be rebranded to Quick Share, the name Samsung uses for a similar tool — - Nearby Share is Google's peer-to-peer file sharing service available on all Android devices with Google apps.| New York Times: |
Sources: the US DOJ, which has an ongoing four-year-old probe into Apple's alleged anticompetitive behavior, has taken interest in Apple blocking Beeper Mini — Beeper Mini, which offers iPhone messaging on Android phones, has grown fast and its duel with the tech giant has gotten the attention of antitrust regulators.
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Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on open source AI, why AI danger is overhyped, whether AI could produce artistic work that has soul, more — It'll take over the world. It won't subjugate humans. For Meta's chief AI scientist, both things are true. — Do not preach doom to Yann LeCun.
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Source: Cisco is paying ~$650M in cash for Isovalent, or 32 times the startup's ARR; Isovalent raised a $40M Series B at a ~$250M valuation in September 2022 — Cisco Systems' acquisition of Isovalent, a cloud networking and security startup backed by Google and Microsoft, announced on Thursday … | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Paxos plans to expand its products to the Solana blockchain on January 17, 2024, after receiving approval from the New York Department of Financial Services — The leading stablecoin issuer Paxos has received regulatory approval to expand its products to the Solana blockchain, which it plans to launch on January 17, 2024.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Humane plans to begin shipping its Ai Pin in March 2024, starting with customers who placed priority orders and in order of the date of purchase — Humane announced Friday that the AI Pin, its splashy AI-powered wearable, will start shipping in March 2024.
More: Engadget, Liliputing, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Android Headlines
Threads: @sean.hodgdon. X: @humane, @vadimyuryev, @imranchaudhri, @avischiffmann, @lukemiani, and @bzamayo
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Court docs: how false claims and risky trades by HeadSpin's CEO and a lack of oversight by investors like GV and Iconiq Capital led to the startup's unraveling — False claims and risky trades at the Silicon Valley start-up HeadSpin were part of a pattern of trouble emerging at young companies that lacked controls.
Threads: @pkafka and @griffitherin
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
After the Jedi cloud contract fell apart, the US DOD has allocated less than 2% of its $9B Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, started in December 2022 — In the past year, less than 2 percent of $9 billion set aside to upgrade the U.S. military's computing technology has been committedSponsor Posts
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