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A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI — A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what it's calling duplicity and “art washing” on OpenAI's part.
More: Hugging Face, Cybernews.com, Forbes, The Crypto Times, PCMag, Fortune, The Verge, Gizmodo, Financial Times, WinBuzzer, Crypto Briefing, The Decoder, BGR, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, and Digital Trends
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
OpenAI suspends access to Sora in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals — A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora. They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts — On Monday, X filed an objection in The Onion's bid to buy InfoWars out of bankruptcy. In the objection, Elon Musk's lawyers argued that X has …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers over allegations of copyright infringement shows the challenges of defining originality and ownership in content — One Amazon influencer makes a living posting content from her beige home. But after she noticed another account hocking the same minimal aesthetic …
More: Forbes and Pulse 2.0
| Felix Ng / Cointelegraph: |
US appeals court finds the OFAC exceeded its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts, as they can't be owned and so are not “property” — A US appeals court ruled the Treasury's OFAC “overstepped” when it sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash's smart contracts.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
An analysis finds over 54% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated; LinkedIn says it doesn't track how many posts are created by AI — A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, indicating the platform's embrace of AI tools has been a success.| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Bluesky says it is up to outside orgs to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee published a dataset of 1M posts from Bluesky's API for ML research — A machine learning librarian at Hugging Face just released a dataset composed of one million Bluesky posts …
More: The Verge. Mastodon: @thenexusofprivacy … and @graue@social.coop
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| Stephen Nakrosis / Wall Street Journal: |
Evolv reaches an agreement to resolve an FTC inquiry alleging the company made false claims about its AI-powered security system's ability to screen for weapons — The proposed settlement order would ban Evolv from making unsupported claims about its products, and require the security technology company …
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| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $1.01B, vs. $982.8M est., a $16.8M loss, compared to a $26.7M profit a year earlier, and raises its FY 2025 outlook — Cybersecurity company were dragged down by expected headwinds following one of the worst computer outages ever| Teresa Xie / Bloomberg: |
Kraken says it is shutting down its NFT marketplace almost two years after it was launched — - Holders will have help from support moving NFTs from platform — NFTs struggle to rebound from the crypto bear market of 2022 — The crypto exchange Kraken is shutting down its NFT marketplace almost …
More: PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, CryptoNinjas, NFTgators, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, and CoinGape
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Sources: Elon Musk has given investors, who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition, 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation — Investors hit by losses following billionaire's takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up| CNBC: |
Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of restricted stock in a new tender offer to SoftBank in a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son — OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An investigation suggests the third suspect behind the hacks of Snowflake clients may be a US Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea — Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The FCC approves a license for SpaceX and T-Mobile to use Starlink to offer supplemental coverage from space in a bid to extend internet access to remote areas — The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it has approved a license for T-Mobile (TMUS.O) and Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink unit …
More: Bloomberg, FCC, Android Authority, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, PCMag, BGR, and Android Headlines
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Wherobots, which offers a cloud-based platform to process and analyze geospatial data from satellites and other sources, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis — Mo Sarwat, cofounder and CEO of Wherobots. — WHEROBOTS — As a kid in Cairo, Mo Sarwat first grasped the dangers of not understanding the natural world.
More: FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, Wherobots, SiliconANGLE, RoboticsTomorrow.com, and VC News Daily
| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
TikTok plans to block users under 18 years of age from using beauty filters and says it is tightening its systems to block users under 13 from the platform — Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up
More: The Independent
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korea says it will bolster its domestic chipmakers next year with $10.2B in support including loans, citing potential economic uncertainty under Trump — - Seoul flags trade concerns ahead of Trump inauguration — Aid marks latest support for chipmakers facing competition| Axios: |
Luma Partners: in Q3, M&A volume in ad tech rose 118% YoY and 26% QoQ and has continued to heat up in Q4 with Samba TV-Semasio, Zeta-LiveIntent, and other deals — - The take-private deal is the latest in a flurry of deal flow in the media sector. — Brightcove, which hosts … | New York Times: |
Huawei unveils the $760+ Mate 70 series, powered by its HarmonyOS Next, calling the flagship the “smartest” Mate phone, as it continues to face US chip curbs — Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.
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