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Sources: OpenAI developed a watermarking method for detecting text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but its launch has been mired in internal debates — Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years
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| Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1 — - Insured losses estimated between $300 million and $1.5 billion — The days-long outage took a $5.4 billion toll on Fortune 500| Bloomberg: |
CrowdStrike says Delta CEO Ed Bastian failed to respond to an assistance offer from CEO George Kurtz; CrowdStrike hopes Delta will “agree to work cooperatively” — The allegation, in a letter Sunday from attorneys for the technology firm, builds upon CrowdStrike's claim last week …
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| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working — Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Bitcoin drops to ~$52,500, its lowest level since February 2024 and down nearly 16% since August 3, and ether drops 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet — Cryptocurrencies tumbled amid a global market sell-off spurred by recession fears. — The price of bitcoin sank more than 11% … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Music streaming has exited its high-growth era, as big streaming services pick up fewer new subscribers, causing revenue shortfalls for music labels — Investors worry the industry has peaked. Label bosses preach patience. — Hollywood is warming up to the promise of artificial intelligence.| Nicholas Carlini: |
A Google DeepMind research scientist details some LLM use cases and argues LLMs are not overhyped and should be judged on what they can do, not what they can't — Background on me — How I use AI — I don't think that “AI” models [a] — (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous vehicles and some Chinese wireless communications hardware in US cars — The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on new Apple Intelligence features, which do not yet live up to the excitement, Apple's design team leadership reshuffle, and Apple's Q3 earnings — The first preview of Apple Intelligence for developers shows just how far the company has to go to live up to the hype.
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
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| Jin Yu Young / New York Times: |
After failing to win concessions, ~6,500 unionized Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea, who declared an indefinite strike in July, returned to work — The indefinite strike, the first in the electronics company's history, comprised only a sliver of its labor force and lasted less than a month.| Bloomberg: |
Infineon reports Q3 revenue down 9.5% YoY to €3.7B, below €3.79B est., and €2.11B in automotive chip sales, down from €2.13B in Q3 2023; IFX is down 24% in 2024 — - Fourth quarter sales expected to decline to about €4 billion — Company forecasts segment result margin below estimates
More: Reuters, Infineon Technologies, and Reuters
| Zach Dorfman / Politico: |
A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc — During the early days of Silicon Valley, a tech industry entrepreneur teamed up with the FBI to ship faulty devices to Moscow.
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