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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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The Central Bank of Nigeria lifts a ban, imposed in February 2021, on cryptocurrency transactions but says global trends show a need to regulate such activities — Nigeria's central bank has lifted a ban on transacting in cryptocurrencies, while saying global trends had shown a need to regulate … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Ubisoft is investigating reports of a new security breach after security research collective VX-Underground shared screenshots of the company's internal tools — Ubisoft is investigating whether it suffered a breach after images of the company's internal software and developer tools were leaked online.
More: Bloomberg, My Nintendo News, Wccftech, Game Rant, and The Record
| Edd Gent / IEEE Spectrum: |
Experts warn against unrealistic expectations for quantum computers, citing the challenges in making fault-tolerant systems, qubits' slow operating speeds, more — Hype is everywhere, skeptics say, and practical applications are still far away — The quantum computer revolution …
More: HPCwire and Analytics Insight
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LinkedIn: Ronjon Nag, Mattia Fiorentini, Lisa Gus, Daniel, Yann LeCun, and Fernando Osório. Forums: Hacker News
| Washington Post: |
How Sam Altman, the dealmaking 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: Business Insider, Fortune, and San Francisco Business Times
| 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: Fox News, Sky News, Outside the Beltway, Benzinga, and Livemint
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| 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, CoinJournal, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk
| 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, Reuters, The Decoder, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Business Today, The Information, The Information, and Cointelegraph
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| 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: @yannlecun, @lucid_voyager, and @yannlecun
X: @rao2z, @cher0x801, @ylecun, @retrofit_games, @ylecun, and @stevenlevy
| Forbes: |
How AI defense tech developer Rebellion Defense is struggling to survive after failing to win a US DOD contract, losing its founders, and shuttering its UK arm — Launched with funding from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Rebellion Defense promised to deliver cutting-edge AI for the U.S.-U.K. alliance.
X: @drleostrauss, @mideastxmidwest, @davidjeans2, and @iblametom
| 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, Engadget, PCMag, Pixel Envy, and Fast Company
Threads: @daveleebbg, @davew, @ipedro, @craftsbyhelenrb, @hankgreen, @mmasnick, @willoremus, @chris, and @davew. Mastodon: @Blort@social.tchncs.de
Bluesky: @bsky.app, @bsky.app, @robpegoraro.com, @archfey.bsky.social, @jay.bsky.team, and @jay.bsky.team
| 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, The Hill, The Messenger, CoinGape, and The Verge
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