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Bluesky now requires parody or 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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Bluesky: @only-good-news, @dpiland, @whitehouse.wtf, @myrstad, @safety.bsky.app, @stephenjcaruso, and @rahaeli
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit, alleges that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, more — Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @secure-circuit, @dead.place, and @romitmehta.com. Mastodon: @Kierkegaanks@beige.party
| Josh Rubin / Toronto.com: |
Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use — A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …
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Bluesky: @mickeydjuric. X: @michellerempel, @gerritd, @mickeydjuric, @michellerempel, @michellerempel, @michellerempel, and @jtemperton. Forums: Slashdot
| Harry Brumpton / Bloomberg: |
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia says generative AI tools have helped it lower frauds by 30% and reduce call center customer wait times by 40% in 2024 — - Customer scam losses at Commonwealth Bank cut in half — CEO Matt Comyn says many more AI use cases in development| 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| David Marcus / @davidmarcus: |
Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill” — How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan's pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a
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X: @nkulw, @kevinweil, @rezendi, @anshublog, @matthewstoller, @bryankerr, @lukeyoungblood, @hellosvapnil, @brian_armstrong, @pmarca, @regulatorynerd, @tommygriffith, @beardmars, @gdanezis, @beller, @ryangrim, @jeffjohnroberts, @trace_cohen, @stevesi, @rohangrey, @chrispainteryup, @ajitpai, @louisrouanet, @caitlinlong_, @jbrukh, @balajis, @jaimassari, @elonmusk, @davidzmorris, @aditishekar, @tyler, @nic__carter, @ronwhammond, @billyez2, @njess, @davidmarcus, @erikvoorhees, @discobanker, @terryangelos, and @tobi
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Baidu receives a license to test its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong, Baidu's first known permit for autonomous vehicle testing outside mainland China — China's Baidu (9888.HK) has received a licence to test autonomous vehicles with its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong …
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| Paul Kunert / The Register: |
Google, which joined the Open Cloud Coalition, denies its offer of €100M+ in incentives to CISPE was linked to CISPE's antitrust complaint against Microsoft — El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
A look at the DOJ's proposed remedies in the Google Search antitrust case, and why forcing a sale of Chrome might not be biggest threat to Google's power — Selling Chrome might not be the most painful part of the DOJ's antitrust demands for Google.
More: The Hindu, The Student Lawyer, and Search Engine Roundtable
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How Tony Sayegh, head of public affairs at a major TikTok investor and an official in the first Trump admin, led the effort to win Trump's support for TikTok — Tony Sayegh led the effort to win Trump's support for the popular app with ties to China — When the Biden administration … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Black Friday sales hit $74.4B globally, up 5% YoY, and $17.5B in the US, up 7% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $10.8B, up 10.2% YoY — 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.
More: Retail Dive, New York Post, Barron's Online, Scripps News, Reuters, WWD, Digital Commerce 360, and Bloomberg
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Q&A with cognitive scientist Gary Marcus on technical limitations and moral inadequacies of LLMs, constructing a regulatory framework for AI, and more — The U.S. should create an artificial intelligence agency led by a cabinet-level position, Marcus argues| Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: |
How Amazon Haul, a storefront for fashion, home, and other items at “ultralow prices”, reflects the “haul” shopping phenomenon popularized by YouTube and TikTok — It is the shopping phenomenon of our times, and now it's an Amazon store.
More: Fast Company, Bloomberg, MakeUseOf, and Althouse
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