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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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ARC Prize:
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
Bloomberg:
OpenAI says safety researchers can sign up for o3 preview today and that it decided not to name the new model o2 “out of respect” for the UK telecom company
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
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  —  New research from Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies and the developer of the Claude family of Large Language Models …
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.
Bloomberg:
The US awards a $4.75B CHIPS Act grant to Samsung and $1.6B to Texas Instruments for new factories in Texas and Utah, rounding out the program's largest grants  —  - Incentives will go toward new factories in Texas and Utah  — Biden administration is racing to complete federal grants
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.

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WaPo officials told staffers a cyberattack compromised the email accounts of several journalists and was potentially the work of a foreign government

Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Sources: senior BBC executives are considering charging US consumers for access to its journalism to boost revenues amid falling UK license fee incomes

New York Times:
An interview with Terry Moran on why he does not regret his X post criticizing Stephen Miller, how ABC News “bailed” on an “oral agreement”, Substack, and more

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
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Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
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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
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