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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.
More: PCMag, AppleInsider, The Verge, The Decoder, Rolling Stone, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, Engadget, Ghacks, Cryptopolitan, PhoneArena, Benzinga, The Information, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, and AsiaOne
Threads: @chris, @jppullen, @eshumarneedi, @vidmij, @mark_r_vickers, and @carnage4life. Mastodon: @waldoj@mastodon.social
X: @mikeisaac, @benmullin, @claytonwbryan, @davidclinchnews, @_felixsimon_, and @antoniogm. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: VentureBeat, Business Today, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, The Decoder, Reuters, The Information, and Cointelegraph
X: @edludlow, @moonalice, and @danprimack
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| 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.
More: New York Times, Tech Policy Press, Business Insider, The Future, Now and Then, Substack, Silicon Republic, New.blicio.us, The Verge, Pixel Envy, and Reason
Threads: @edzitron, @carnage4life, @mathonan, @kenpopehat, @zacharyrd, @lorakolodny, @joanwestenberg, @jscalzi, and @brian.fishman.5
| 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.
More: TechRadar. Threads: @lucid_voyager and @yannlecun
X: @retrofit_games, @cher0x801, @ylecun, @ylecun, @rao2z, and @stevenlevy
| 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 have an account and log in to be able to see posts …
More: Bluesky, TechCrunch, PCMag, Pixel Envy, and Fast Company
Threads: @ipedro, @craftsbyhelenrb, @hankgreen, @mmasnick, @willoremus, @chris, @davew, and @davew. Mastodon: @Blort@social.tchncs.de
Bluesky: @bsky.app, Bluesky Social, @robpegoraro.com, @archfey.bsky.social, @jay.bsky.team, and @jay.bsky.team
| 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.| The Block: |
Bulgaria ends criminal proceedings against crypto lender Nexo, finding no evidence of money laundering, tax crimes, computer fraud, or other criminal activity — - The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bulgaria cleared Nexo of any criminal wrongdoing and ended its investigation into the crypto lender.
More: BTA, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, and CoinJournal
| Michael Gennaro / Courthouse News Service: |
A US federal judge rules that Twitter breached its contracts with its employees by failing to pay bonuses in 2022, despite promising to pay 50% of the amounts — Current and former Twitter employees said they never received bonuses they were promised during Elon Musk's buyout of the social media platform.
More: Reuters and CoinGape
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @quinnypig, @courthousenews, and @karolcummins. Forums: Hacker News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Bots registered as 13-year-old users on TikTok were shown highly polarized content about the Israel-Hamas war in the For You feed, within hours after signing up — Imagine your 13-year-old signs up for TikTok and, while scrolling through videos, lingers on footage of explosions …
More: Sky News, Outside the Beltway, Benzinga, Livemint, Financial Times, The Forward, and Marcus on AI
Bluesky: @blackamazon.bsky.social and @anildash.com
X: @karadapena, @karadapena, @davidfrum, @ianbremmer, @_anarivas, and @karadapena
| Washington Post: |
How Sam Altman, the dealing-making prodigy full of contradictions, became one of the best-known tech CEOs, including by cultivating close ties with Peter Thiel — Investing in everything from speakeasys to nuclear fusion, the Silicon Valley wunderkind, dealing-making prodigy is full of contradictions
More: Observer, Fortune, and San Francisco Business Times
| 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.
More: Livemint, AppleInsider, mjtsai.com, 9to5Mac, Pixel Envy, MacRumors, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, Android Headlines, Beeper Blog, Dexerto, Federal Trade Commission, The Verge, The Indian Express, Tom's Guide, Wired, and Pocket-lint
Threads: @carnage4life, @carnage4life, and @esg.hound
Mastodon: @counternotions@mastodon …, @blakereid@mastodon …, @blakereid@mastodon …, and @jeff@indieweb.social. Bluesky: @epro.social
X: @ftc, @techftc, @gregorymcfadden, @joellthayer, @andrewnebus, @superwuster, @aexm, @billyez2, @lutherlowe, @benlovejoy, @ericmigi, @wavesblog, @techftc, and @senwarren
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, who on a trip to Silicon Valley in November aimed to convince a skeptical tech sector that the government was there to help — FTC Chair Lina Khan's vast ambitions to cut back on corporate power could be a huge part of Biden's legacy — if they come to fruition.Sponsor Posts
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