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The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian interference in the 2024 US elections — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — The legal battle was spurred by book publishers objecting to the archive's digital lending library.
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns — - Bloomberg reported on the antitrust investigation Tuesday — Nvidia says it has been in contact with the Justice Department
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| Reuters: |
Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1B from a16z, Sequoia, DST, and others, sources say at a $5B valuation — Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash …
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| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back ad spending on X in 2025 and 14% say they will pull budgets this year, due to concerns about content on the platform — Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Sources: OSOM, the smartphone company founded by former Essential employees, is shutting down later this week, after a lawsuit alleged its CEO misused funds — OSOM is effectively closing up shop later this week and laying off most of its employees. — • — TL;DR| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks — Google announced on Tuesday it's releasing Android 15 and making its source code available ahead of the coming consumer launch …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel cancels plans for using its 20A process node for its Arrow Lake processors for the consumer market and will use external nodes instead, likely from TSMC — Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC. — In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use …
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, as Elon Musk battles Brazil's top court over X — The moves show how Musk's legal dispute about X is affecting SpaceX and its Starlink satellite-internet service
More: Reuters. Mastodon: @parismarx@mastodon.online and @dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz. Bluesky: @clemens.vasters.com. X: @micahmaidenberg
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity — YouTube is expanding its existing set of parental controls with a new feature that would allow a parent to link their account to their teen's account … | Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock — Trump Media shares on Wednesday closed below where they stood at the end of 2023, as the Truth Social maker's stock continued … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more — The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark …
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| Rhian Lubin / The Independent: |
Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane — Self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed Winston Churchill ‘was the villain of Second World War’ and that millions …
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Forums: r/Jewish, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, and r/inthenews
| Forbes: |
Bolt's Ryan Breslow thanked 13 investors in an email for supporting a $450M Series F, but some say they hadn't given support; BlackRock moves to block the round — The Bolt founder claimed a group of investors had signed off on the company's chaotic $450 million raise, but some said they hadn't.
More: TechCrunch and Bloomberg Law
| Todd Feathers / Gizmodo: |
An analysis of OpenAI's GPT Store finds 100+ custom GPTs that appear to violate OpenAI's policies regarding sexual content, legal and medical advice, and more — A Gizmodo analysis of OpenAI's GPT store found more than 100 tools that appear to violate the company's policies regarding sexual content … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically detect and troubleshoot companies' data-related issues, raised a $20M Series A led by Icon Ventures — Sanjay Agrawal and Shashank Gupta, who helped co-found the business intelligence company ThoughtSpot, say that several years ago …
More: Revefi, Seattle Business Journal, GeekWire, and SiliconANGLE
| New York Times: |
Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis — In places like San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, robot taxis are navigating city streets, each without a driver behind the steering wheel.
Forums: Hacker News and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
A look at the economics of Waymo's robot taxi business as its dominance has grown since Cruise pulled its fleet off the road — Now that its technology is showing it can work on city streets, Alphabet, which owns Waymo, plans to invest billions more. — Over the last few months … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens, higher rate limits, and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price — Anthropic is launching a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, catered towards enterprise customers …
More: Neowin, Unite.AI, CNBC, Computerworld, PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, Digital Trends, The Decoder, and Maginative
| The Economic Times: |
Indian bike taxi startup Rapido raised $200M at a $1.1B valuation led by WestBridge and plans to expand its newly launched cab-hailing service — Aravind Sanka, the company's CEO, told ET that the funds will be used to expand Rapido's newly launched four-wheeler taxi service, which competes with Ola and Uber.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $7.71B, vs. $7.66B est., Server revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B, and adjusted gross margins of 31.8%, vs. 33.4% est. — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported weaker-than-expected profitability, suggesting lower margins than anticipated in its closely watched business … Sponsor Posts
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