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Sources: the US has approved the export of advanced AI chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the UAE as part of the company's partnership with G42 — - Lawmakers have raised concerns over the partnership, saying there is a risk it could open up a back door for China to access the advanced technology.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images and has few restrictions; it isn't clear if xAI trained Aurora itself — X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
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Broadcom shelves plans to work directly with the top 2,000 VMware customers, focusing on just 500 and giving 1,500 back to partners as a way to stem migrations — Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations - which Dell says are on the cards
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Linda Yaccarino says X worked with the authors of the Kids Online Safety Act to make changes to protect freedom of speech and urges the House to pass the bill — - Senate passed bill in a tech privacy package in July — Changes to bill safeguard free speech, lawmakers say
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A White House official says that the US believes China-linked Salt Typhoon hackers targeted and recorded the phone calls of “very senior” US political figures — The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted … | Michael H. Keller / New York Times: |
An investigation finds 80+ livestreaming apps, like Bigo Live, on Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store that advertised child sexual abuse or bestiality — Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
David Sacks, who called OpenAI a “piranha for-profit company”, becoming AI czar comes at a delicate moment for OpenAI as it transitions to a for-profit — Sam Altman may be playing Santa with OpenAI's “12 days of shipmas” - a series of splashy product releases that kicked off Thursday …
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Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June — Paytm has agreed to sell its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2 million, as the Indian firm sheds … | Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: |
OpenAI's o1 is a notable departure from older models, representing the AI industry's shift to reasoning models to overcome the limits of prediction-based LLMs — This week, openai launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman, called “the smartest model in the world”—a generative-AI program …
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| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
How the UK came to play a key role in global AI regulation, after Sam Altman played a deepfake of Rishi Sunak's voice on a February 2023 call with the then PM — LONDON — In February 2023 Sam Altman dialed into a video call with Britain's then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.| Reuters: |
CapitaLand: Asia Pacific's colocation data center market is expected to grow to $52.2B by 2026, up from $25.5B in 2022, driven by demand for AI-based services — Global investors are queueing up to invest in data centre operators in Asia Pacific either by buying stakes directly or via public offerings … | Anisha Sircar / Rest of World: |
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