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Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms — We will appeal the Court's decision but the process requires that we first file proposed remedies. This is a case about contracts.
More: The Mozilla Blog, Google, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, Business Insider, and New York Times
Threads: @timothybucksf and @carnage4life
X: @mozilla, @matthewstoller, @khushitavasant, @khushitavasant, @jason_kint, @kamylbazbaz, and @khushitavasant
Forums: Hacker News and r/Android
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025 — OpenAI announced its new o3 models on Friday. — In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its …
More: OpenAI on YouTube, OpenAI, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Quartz, Engadget, The Verge, Axios, and CNBC
Bluesky: @wertwhile. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Threads: @benedictevans. X: @fchollet, @openai, @mikeknoop, @levie, @fchollet, @gdb, @polynoamial, @deedydas, @balajis, @yanatweets, @vikhyatk, @sullyomarr, @mckaywrigley, @dorialexander, @basedbeffjezos, @karanganesan, @itsallentropy, @aj_kourabi, @vikhyatk, @fchollet, @emostaque, @justin_halford_, @wgussml, @iterintellectus, @aravsrinivas, @modestproposal1, @vikhyatk, @dmdohan, @mattshumer_, @emostaque, @altryne, @yuris, @krishnanrohit, @mckaywrigley, @armanddoma, @dorialexander, @qivshi1, @natolambert, @dylan522p, @rowancheung, @iscienceluvr, @miles_brundage, @jacobandreou, @dmdohan, @garymarcus, @sullyomarr, @byrnehobart, @levie, @sama, @dylan522p, @_aidan_clark_, @arunv30, @krishnanrohit, @garymarcus, @andrewcurran_, @bnj, @abacaj, @byrnehobart, @sahir2k, @altryne, @altryne, @scobleizer, @byrnehobart, @krishnanrohit, @garymarcus, @fernandotherojo, @krishnanrohit, @apples_jimmy, @dorialexander, @garymarcus, @aj_kourabi, @krishnanrohit, @modestproposal1, @dbreunig, @_fabknowledge_, @garymarcus, @arcprize, @krishnanrohit, @kevinweil, @swyx, @sherwinwu, @dbreunig, @deedydas, @inafried, @seconds_0, @iscienceluvr, @amasad, @miles_brundage, @amasad, @alkalinesec, @nim_chimpsky_, @emollick, @brian_armstrong, @jtlin, @sebastienbubeck, @kevinroose, @0xkarmatic, @benbajarin, @dorialexander, @smokeawayyy, @ryanmorrisonjer, @adonis_singh, @venturetwins, @kevinweil, @bobmcgrewai, @apples_jimmy, @garymarcus, @silasalberti, @sporadicalia, @amir, @deedydas, @creatine_cycle, @garrytan, @avischiffmann, @norabelrose, @stevenheidel, @sparkycollier, @krishnanrohit, @benjedwards, and @garymarcus
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o3, trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 87.5% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation in a high-compute configuration; GPT-4o scored 5% in 2024 — OpenAI's new o3 system - trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set - has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the Semi-Private Evaluation set …
More: Analytics India Magazine, Ken Yeung, Interconnects, New Scientist, Fortune, Simon Willison's Weblog, Neowin, The Verge, Mashable, The Decoder, Maginative, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @simonwillison.net, @garymarcus, @julianharris, @zachweinersmith, and @stevenheidel.com
Threads: @moskov, @mergesort, and @crumbler
X: @fchollet, @taulogicai, @lennysan, @fchollet, @garymarcus, @tszzl, @fchollet, @denny_zhou, @eshear, @garymarcus, @dbreunig, @simonw, @burkov, @miaai_builder, @fchollet, @sauers_, @geofflewisorg, @miles_brundage, @tszzl, @fchollet, and @tszzl
LinkedIn: Rama Vasudevan and Sébastien Riopel-Murray
Forums: Hacker News, r/mlscaling, r/MachineLearning, and r/singularity
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More: The Information, Moneycontrol, Benzinga, Wired, Android Headlines, Digital Trends, TechRadar, The Indian Express, Tom's Guide, ZDNET, Sherwood News, Windows Central, Yahoo Finance, and VentureBeat
Bluesky: @justicar.xyz and @quinnypig.com
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO — Israel-based maker of Pegasus program loses five-year-old landmark case. — Messaging giant WhatsApp won a landmark ruling Friday …
More: Reuters, The Record, Northern District of California, CNN, The Indian Express, The Guardian, Bloomberg Law, and The Verge
Threads: @wcathcart and @zuck
X: @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @natynettle, @natynettle, @natynettle, @jsrailton, @natynettle, @isaiahporitz, @jsrailton, @natynettle, @jsrailton, and @natynettle
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm prevails at trial against Arm's claim that it breached a chip tech license acquired in the $1.4B Nuvia purchase in 2021; Arm plans to seek a retrial — - US jury finds Qualcomm didn't violate terms of agreement — Delaware jurors were unable to agree on Nuvia's alleged breach
More: Reuters, CRN, Wccftech, Qualcomm, Windows Central, Android Central, Computerworld, The Verge, VentureBeat, Barron's Online, Financial Times, Thurrott, XDA Developers, Wall Street Journal, The Information, CNBC, Forbes, and Benzinga
Bluesky: @chernandburn. X: @donnymac, @danielnewmanuv, @markhachman, @mytechmusings, @markosdv87, @anshelsag, @tekstrategist, @mikefeibus, @danielnewmanuv, @mytechmusings, @mytechmusings, @beth_kindig, @mytechmusings, @daniel_rubino, and @dylanonchips. LinkedIn: Anshel Sag. Forums: Hacker News
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data — OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
The US charges dual Russian and Israeli national Rostislav Panev for allegedly working with the LockBit ransomware group and seeks his extradition from Israel — - Extortion group targeted Boeing, Royal Mail and thousands more — Israeli-Russian national allegedly hired via Telegram chat app| Liz Pelly / Harper's: |
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts — I first heard about ghost artists in the summer of 2017. At the time, I was new to the music-streaming beat.
More: AV Club, Android Police, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Boing Boing, The Honest Broker, and Pixel Envy
Bluesky: @timhollo, @caseynewton, @umaw, @thelincoln, @robhorning, @kyokokitamura, @lizpelly, @dadadrummer, @nightrazor, @corybe.com, @bernardzuel, @davidbernabo, @biggsky, @panospria, @eboldy, @slowmusicmovement, @funkadeefunk, @djregular.tech, @eduardosuarez, @publicaddress, @alisonwillmore, @ashwinrodrigues.com, and @micahloewinger
Mastodon: @caitp@mstdn.social, @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, @trashpandaqc@mastodon.online, @dante@masto.posting.haus, @paco@infosec.exchange, and @lardmotel@mastodon.sdf.org. Threads: @mossbergwalt
X: @briancrain, @zervel, @elcharlemagne2, @jimmyjacktoth, @big_keez, @harpers, @diemkay, @rulesdisobeyer, @teakagee, @harpers, @jackantonoff, @iliasalami, @98migrocha, @philosopher70, @mrsimonraymonde, @kennytorrella, @jgrayatua, @larrypareigis, @calsthoughts, @sr_lazarus, @jhv85, @niurn_writes, @roneilr, @glenn_mcdonald, @umaw_, @future_of_music, @lawrencedonegan, @sandiptodg, @joeyquits, @1000timesyes, @umaw_, @karonliu, @joeyquits, @alias_eitel, and @phoneswithchrds
LinkedIn: Cole Davis, Ethan Holben, Owen Grover, and Jacob Sanders
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/redscarepod, r/TIdaL, r/truespotify, r/hiphopheads, r/Longreads, r/musicindustry, and r/popheads
| Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Sources: David Sacks' role as WH AI and crypto czar will be limited to an adviser role, overseen by Michael Kratsios, partly because he won't divest from Craft — David Sacks may already be getting a taste of how difficult it can be to get things done in Washington D.C.
More: CoinGape
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The US CFPB sues Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, alleging that customers lost $870M+ to fraud since Zelle's launch in 2017 — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday sued the operator of the Zelle payments network and the three U.S. banks …
More: Consumer Financial …, NBC News, The Verge, Zelle, JURIST, Orange County Register, Forbes, WTTG-TV, ABA Banking Journal, The Daily Hodl, Legal Dive, Android Authority, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, CBS News, Yahoo Finance, CNN, New York Times, Engadget, The Information, Axios, and Payments Dive
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @ryneismean, @nicetopatrick, and @caseynewton. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @chopracfpb, @aarondklein, @amacker, @roguecfpb, @amacker, @yaeloss, @cfpb, @amacker, and @noyesclt
| Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: |
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours — YouTube competitor Rumble (RUM) is in a deal for a $775 million strategic investment from stablecoin giant Tether.
More: Rumble, Inc., Tether, Reuters, Benzinga, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Information, The Block, Decrypt, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Reclaim The Net, Bloomberg, The Hollywood Reporter, and Crypto Briefing
Bluesky: @jeffgreco.com. X: @rumblevideo, @theoneandomsy, @autismcapital, @parrotcapital, @chrispavlovski, and @autismcapital
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Google hired 100+ staffers of Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work on its new Android XR OS, raising questions about the future of Magic Leap — Google has hired more than 100 staffers at augmented reality firm Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work …
More: SamMobile
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A study by Waymo and insurer Swiss Re finds Waymo's vehicles were safer than those driven by humans, with a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims and more — Waymo's autonomous vehicles cause less property damage and fewer bodily injuries when they crash than human-driven vehicles …
More: Engadget and Waymo
Bluesky: @caseynewton. X: @techtekedra, @erikbryn, @waymo, @dmitri_dolgov, @karlpfleger, @jeffdean, @saswat101, and @espricewright
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/OptimistsUnite, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity — Bankers expect global deal volumes to surpass $4 trillion next year, the highest in four years, buoyed … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities — Anthropic created an AI jailbreaking algorithm that keeps tweaking prompts until it gets a harmful response.
More: arXiv and Matthew Berman on YouTube
Bluesky: @404media.co, @josephcox, and @emanuelmaiberg
X: @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @matthewberman, and @anthropicai
| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
A look at a lawsuit from 64 families against Snap that alleges Snapchat's design is responsible for connecting teens to dealers selling counterfeit drugs — “I'm a survivor, and that's bad for you, CEO of Snapchat, because, uh, uh, uh ...” Michael Brewer can't finish his sentence.
Bluesky: @rachaelmyrow. X: @bradstone, @jbcraig, @alephblog, @columbiajournma, and @livcarville. LinkedIn: Olivia Carville
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Alibaba splits the team developing apps for its AI chatbot Qianwen from the team that builds its LLM, following similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu — It follows similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu, which have divided their AI research and application teams to tackle a competitive market
More: Yicai Global and Investing.com
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