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The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue — Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US appeals court pauses the ITC's Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 import ban over Masimo's patents, after the Biden administration declined to veto the ban — Apple (AAPL.O) scored a victory on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission's import ban …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
How Apple hiring Stanford PhD Marcelo Lamego, who was the CTO of Masimo spinoff Cercacor, in 2013 to add Watch features sparked a fight that led to the US ban — Apple's hiring of a key engineer 10 years ago helped spark a fight that led its watch to be banned from the US.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple resumes Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in some physical US stores starting today, with online sales resuming tomorrow by 3PM ET — You can once again buy the latest Apple Watches straight from Apple. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 will be available again …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a zero-click iMessage attack that used four zero-days and hacked iPhones for over four years, including dozens belonging to Kaspersky staff — “Triangulation” infected dozens of iPhones belonging to employees of Moscow-based Kaspersky. — Researchers on Wednesday …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon plans to start showing ads in movies and shows on Prime Video from January 29, with an option for customers to pay an extra $2.99 per month to avoid them — Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers develop a protocol to secure AirTags against stalking while maintaining privacy, aiming to improve on Apple's system of rotating public identifiers — Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy.
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| New York Times: |
Investigation: China's Ministry of State Security intel agency uses AI and other tech to challenge the CIA; US officials describe an AI system to track US spies — The ambitious Ministry of State Security is deploying A.I. and other advanced technology to go toe-to-toe with the United States …
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| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Filing: MicroStrategy acquired 14,620 BTC for $616M in cash, taking its total holdings to 189,150 BTC, worth $8B+, or almost 1% of the 19.58M BTC outstanding — - MicroStrategy's total Bitcoin holdings is now 189,150 coins … The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company run …
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| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Tiger, Coatue, Vision Fund, a16z, Insight, Accel, Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Index together invested in 44 unicorns in 2023, down from 213 in 2022 and 471 in 2021 — Funding to the unicorn class of companies — those private startups valued at $1 billion or more — has fallen dramatically in 2023 …
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: Microsoft, Google, and Amazon made investments amounting to 66% of the $27B raised by generative AI startups in 2023, vastly outspending VC firms — Microsoft, Google and Amazon crowd out traditional Silicon Valley investors in blockbuster deals with AI start-ups in 2023
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
As more high-performance computing chips pushed past 1 kW in 2023, like Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, many manufacturers adopted direct liquid cooling — Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid — ANALYSIS As Moore's Law slowed to a crawl, chips …
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