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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047, saying the bill applies only to large AI models and doesn't account for if a model's deployment is high risk — Governor seeks more encompassing rules than the bill opposed by OpenAI, Meta and supported by research scientists
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Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets, including moving compute to iPhone, and is working on homeOS; new Masimo CEO could enable a deal with Apple — Meta's latest AR glasses and cheaper mixed-reality headset add pressure on Apple to make its Vision push work.
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Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B — Company behind ChatGPT is aiming to raise around $6.5 billion in funding set to close next week — Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected …
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| Matthew Lynley / Supervised: |
A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep — Plus: OpenAI's portfolio is getting a little big. — ∙ Paid — This issue was finished on a mobile device so I apologize ahead of time for any typos and formatting errors.
More: The New Stack
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Sources: OpenAI expects its revenue to grow to $11.6B in 2025; ChatGPT has 10M paying users and could bring in $2.7B in revenue in 2024, up from $700M in 2023 — Thrive Capital is investing more than $1 billion of OpenAI's current $6.5 billion fundraising round, and it has a sweetener … | New York Times: |
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| Jonathan Moens / New York Times: |
CA Governor Newsom signs the California Neurorights Act into law that treats “neural data” as personal sensitive info, aiming to protect brain data from misuse — The state extended its current personal privacy law to include the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
More: The Verge. Mastodon: @mikarv@someone.elses.computer. X: @neuro_rights. LinkedIn: Doron Weber, Michael Zink, and Stephen Damianos
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired — Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, R.E.M., Burna Boy, Rush and many others are currently unplayable on YouTube in the U.S. due … | Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 2020 breach, facing the US SEC's charges that were largely dismissed in July, global cyber regulations, and more — Tim Brown was first cyber executive to face SEC charges after a massive Russian hack — The first cyber chief to fight …
More: PYMNTS.com. LinkedIn: Christopher Hetner, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Federico Charosky, John Barker, Esq. …, and Judy Selby
| Alex Perry / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has climbed almost sixfold to $200B+ in less than two years, buoyed by Meta's record-high share price, which is up 60%+ YTD — - Meta CEO's wealth has jumped sixfold in the past two years — Shares of Meta are trading near record high, up 60% this year
More: Bitcoin Insider, The Week, Hindustan Times, Cointelegraph, and CNN
| Ricardo Brito / Reuters: |
Court docs: Brazil's Supreme Court says X still needs to pay $5M+ in pending fines, including a new one, before it will be allowed to resume service in Brazil — Brazil's Supreme Court said on Friday that social platform X still needs to pay just over $5 million in pending fines … | Aswath Damodaran / Financial Times: |
NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more — Whether the risks to jobs is real or not, it behoves us all to act like it is given how consequential the costs could be| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue — Bumble and Match Group launch friendship and social products to help reverse post-pandemic slowdownSponsor Posts
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