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Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's for-profit transition, alleging that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, and more — Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Bluesky requires parody, satire, and fan accounts to label themselves as such, after a researcher found 44 of its 100 most-followed accounts have a doppelganger — Parody and fan accounts will have to clearly label their profiles. — Bluesky has updated its impersonation policy to be …
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI says it plans to build data centers in parts of the US Midwest and Southwest; sources: OpenAI is spending $5B+ a year and is “not close to breaking even” — ChatGPT-maker aims for big boost from new AI products, Apple partnership and infrastructure investment| Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: |
A look at Death Clock, an app that claims to predict the user's likely date of death by using an AI model trained on a dataset of 1,200+ life expectancy studies — - Model trained on longevity studies is popular on fitness app — Technology may have wider applications in economics, finance
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Black Friday sales grew 5% YoY to $74.4B globally, including $17.5B in the US, up 7% YoY; Adobe: US online sales grew 10.2% YoY to $10.8B — The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $33.6 billion spent globally online on the day — looks like it continued into Black Friday, with a bang.
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| Financial Times: |
Some UK policymakers worry whether Elon Musk will complicate UK-US ties, as his diatribes against the Labour government extend well beyond tech and free speech — A London-based VC has connected Boris Johnson and the Tesla chief, who Tony Blair has praised as ‘an extraordinary innovator’
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| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark on Nokia's mobile phone failure, moving from mobile and fixed networks into data centers and defense, fine-tuning 5G, and more — Pekka Lundmark sees opportunities for the Finnish communications company to grow in defense and data centers.
X: @business
| Iris Kim / NBC News: |
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for 200+ endangered languages in North America — Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
A profile of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, who made a highly risky bet to acquire debt-ridden Hynix in 2012 to form SK Hynix, which is now valued at ~$80B — The race to win the AI chip market is akin to Squid Game, quipped an industry insider during a lunch meeting recently. It's intense.
X: @business
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum faces questions over its direction as its reliance on Layer-2 blockchains grows, leading to lower fee collection, while rivals like Solana gain ground — - The blockchain has seen fees slide after technical upgrades — Criticisms have weighed on Ether, which has underperformed
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Meta says it will require advertisers globally to get verified before running financial service ads targeting Australian users, starting in early February 2025 — Exclusive: Businesses to require financial services license number to post Facebook ads, while individuals will need government-issued ID| Jack Coleman / TheGamer: |
Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has now raised $750M+ in crowdfunding, and its single-player spin-off Squadron 42 won't be out until 2026 — - Star Citizen has eclipsed $750 million in crowdfunding. — There is no release date in sight for Star Citizen.Sponsor Posts
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