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John Schulman / @johnschulman2:
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research”  —  I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he's taking a sabbatical through the end of 2024; a source says OpenAI product leader Peter Deng, who joined in 2023, left  —  Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers  —  Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
US v. Google: a judge says Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and used exclusive agreements to raise prices without any competition  —  A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
Jason Del Rey / Fortune:
Apple and Mozilla will take a big hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; in 2021-2022, $510M out of $593M of Mozilla's revenue came from its Google deal  —  “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”  —  With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's AI shift could move some searches to Siri and AI chatbots instead of web browsers and Google, softening the blow from the US v. Google antitrust ruling  —  - Judge's decision puts Google payments to Apple in jeopardy  — In future, Apple could handle searches via Siri and chatbots
New York Times:
In an email to staff, Linda Yaccarino says X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to San Jose offices and a new Palo Alto office shared with xAI  —  Elon Musk, X's owner, has clashed with California's leaders and has said the social media platform would move its headquarters to Texas.
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A look at some of Apple's pre-prompt instructions for Apple Intelligence, including “do not hallucinate” for a text generation feature  —  Apple's latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so  —  Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
Samsung starts mass production of world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it's 9% thinner than typical LPDDR5X and improves devices' heat resistance by 21.2%  —  The new package frees additional space.  —  Samsung has started mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities.
Aditya Soni / Reuters:
Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon shares fell 4%+, Nvidia fell 6%, and Microsoft and Meta fell ~3% amid worries about a potential US recession and massive AI spending  —  Apple (AAPL.O) and other heavyweight companies sold off on Monday as U.S. recession fears and Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKa.N) …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Bitcoin dropped below $50,000, its lowest level since February 2024 and down 17% since August 3, and ether dropped 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet
Washington Post:
Letter: the secretaries of state from PA, WA, MI, NM, and MN ask Elon Musk to change X's Grok to stop the AI assistant from spreading false election information  —  Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk's X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states.
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
In a fifth iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 developer beta, Safari adds Distraction Control, which lets users block distracting elements on the page like pop-ups  —  You'll get to choose which page element to block on a site, as long as it doesn't change.  —  Ahead of the full release of iOS 18 …
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Mainframes are finding a new life in the AI era, as some banks, insurance providers, and airlines look to use them to run AI locally rather than in the cloud  —  Banks, insurance providers and airlines still find uses, including artificial intelligence, for the large computers that have been around for decades
Michael Peel / Financial Times:
The US NIST is set to publish three security algorithms, put out for comment in 2023, to protect data from quantum hacking, as the agency awaits the sign off  —  Global authorities speed up focus on growing threat to traditional cryptography  —  The quest to shield the world's digital data …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Booking CEO Glenn Fogel on the company's Booking.com, OpenTable, Kayak, Priceline, and Agoda brands, using AI to book trips, hotels, and more  —  The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

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Lionel Laurent / Bloomberg:
The architect of the European Commission's initial AI Act proposal says its reach ended up being too broad and the AI Act may entrench big US tech companies
X: @adamkovac, @benthompson, @adamkovac, and @dhh.  LinkedIn: Lionel Laurent.  Forums: r/neoliberal

Earlier Picks

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
A memo from Microsoft Chief People Officer Kathleen Hogan: “everyone at Microsoft” now has “security” as a “Core Priority”, used in performance reviews
More: The Verge, OSnews, Thurrott, and Neowin
Mastodon: @mweagle@hachyderm.io.  X: @hackinglz and @chirag_mehta.  Forums: r/technology
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Elon Musk revives his OpenAI lawsuit, filing a complaint in California to allege that OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman breached OpenAI's founding contract
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised a $1B early-stage fund and a $4B late-stage fund, its largest-ever pair, after backing OpenAI in 2023
Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg:
AI chip startup Groq raised a $640M Series D led by BlackRock at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1B after raising $300M in 2021, and adds a former Intel exec as COO
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