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November 15, 2024, 7:00 PM

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Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia:
Biden admin finalizes its $6.6B CHIPS Act grant to TSMC; money will be disbursed in stages and TSMC is expected to receive at least $1B by the end of 2024  —  LIMA, Peru — The Biden administration has finalized its $6.6 billion CHIPS Act grant to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
New emails released as part of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI show Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever had serious concerns about Sam Altman as early as 2017  —  New emails released as part of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI reveal that the company's fondness of drama is hardly new.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+  —  Billionaire's rocket builder plots huge share sale while AI start-up closes in on $5bn funding round
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content  —  ‘We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.’
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds  —  Threads is testing a way to create custom feeds for certain profiles or topics, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday.
Decrypt:
Eighteen GOP state AGs sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Gary Gensler, alleging crypto regulatory overreach without Congressional authorization  —  Ahead of an expected regulatory leadership transition following the election of Donald Trump, 18 states have filed suit against the Securities …
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of SBF  —  The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan will devote fewer resources to policing cryptocurrency crimes after securing several major convictions …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others  —  U.S. technology giant Apple has notified RFE/RL that it has removed several of its apps following a request from Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor.
Ruxandra Iordache / CNBC:
Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time  —  After a survey found that 71% of Brits want revenge on scammers, mobile operator O2 deploys Daisy, an AI tool that keeps fraudsters on the line to waste their time.

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