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In a blog post, OpenAI says “You can't sue your way to AGI”, and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit — Musk is also the founder of xAI, an OpenAI rival. — The current suit, filed in August, is the successor …
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says the US SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after its Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or face numerous charges — The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing “numerous counts” against Elon Musk, according to a letter …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly making $88M+ via fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from April 2017 to March 2023 — Fourteen North Korean nationals have been indicted for their role in a long-running scam where they stole the identities … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out interactive Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, an “experimental feature” that lets users talk to the AI “hosts” of the podcast-like overviews — Google's NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews have been a surprise hit this year …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Kristen Altus / Fox Business: |
OpenAI confirms that Sam Altman plans to personally donate $1M to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, as opposed to having OpenAI send the gift — The tech titan says he's ‘eager to support’ Trump's efforts to lead US into ‘the age of AI’ — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining …
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| Graham Fraser / BBC: |
The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely suggested the BBC had published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself — The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant's new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United States.
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| Leslie Picker / CNBC: |
Private-credit firm Sixth Street commits $4B in capital upfront for Affirm to underwrite four- to six-month installment loans, a source says starting in 2025 — Two trendy areas in finance - fintech and private credit — are coming together in a new multi-billion dollar joint venture.
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| Bloomberg: |
Liquid, which is building “liquid foundation models” inspired by the architecture of worm brains, raised a $250M Series A led by AMD at a $2.3B valuation — The funding round values the startup at more than $2 billion. — Liquid AI, a startup designing artificial intelligence systems inspired …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at Anthropic's Clio, an internal AI tool to identify new threats, disrupt coordinated abuse of the company's systems, and generate Claude usage insights — PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic's chatbot — The company didn't know it yet, but Anthropic had a spam problem.
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| Bloomberg: |
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says Klarna's investment in AI let it stop hiring a year ago and its headcount fell 22% to 3,500, mostly due to attrition — - Company has promised workers higher salaries in age of AI — Klarna would like to become a bank in the US one day, CEO says
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT's three-hour outage on December 11 was caused by a new telemetry service configuration deployed to collect Kubernetes control plane metrics — OpenAI is blaming one of the longest outages in its history on a “new telemetry service” gone awry.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How Anthropic's Claude became the chatbot of choice for AI industry insiders, who say its responses feel more creative and empathetic and less gratingly robotic — A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?
Bluesky: @mattr644, @jaredm.dev, @andrewhinton, and @edzitron.com. X: @kevinroose. LinkedIn: Elizabeth Bowling Aldorsson
| Adam James / The Block: |
A Texas man gets a two-year sentence for underreporting capital gains from selling $3.7M in bitcoin, the first such prosecution based entirely on cryptocurrency — - An Austin, Texas, man received a two-year prison sentence for falsely underreporting capital gains earned from selling $3.7 million in bitcoin.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU finds it breached its own privacy rules in a 2023 ad campaign on X that intended to sway opinion for a proposal to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM — The European Union's executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign on X … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
An interview with Sundar Pichai about Google joining a “Manhattan Project” for AI under Trump, playing the long game after ChatGPT's debut, Gemini 2.0, and more — THE SCOOP — In an exclusive interview, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Semafor he's ready to work on a …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Walmart is leading a $300M+ round alongside Ribbit Capital for Walmart-majority-owned fintech venture, One, giving it a $2.5B pre-money valuation — - Retailer and Ribbit lead funding round for standalone company … The world's largest retailer is leading a funding round … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US is preparing rules restricting the sale of GPUs to some countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, to limit China's ability to access them — Washington plans rules limiting semiconductor shipments to some countries accused of supplying Beijing| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at 2024's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect — As reported by iGeneration, Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and the iPhone 14 series at the end of the year …
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