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Marketing executives say big brands are allocating small amounts of their ad budget to X, seeking to avoid being perceived as boycotting Elon Musk's platform  —  Marketers want to avoid being seen as boycotting billionaire's social media platform  —  Big brands are allocating small amounts …
Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
Bernstein: AI could erode India's $350B services export sector as AI replaces entry-level engineers at “higher precision and speed” at a fraction of the cost  —  AI subscriptions replace Indian engineers at “higher precision and speed”  —  For decades, India's economic promise …
New York Times:
US tech companies are racing to establish more and bigger offshore campuses in India, fully staffed with highly skilled professionals in cities like Bengaluru
Wency Chen / South China Morning Post:
Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 “domestically controllable” products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance  —  The equipment start-up kept a low profile until this week, when it unveiled about 30 new products at the Semicon China show
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Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics software company Descartes Systems Group acquires 3Gtms, an Ohio-based transportation software vendor, for $115M in cash  —  Waterloo, Ont.-based multinational and logistics software company Descartes Systems Group has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based 3Gtms …

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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
CPB says the Department of Education has terminated Ready To Learn, the grant program that funded Sesame Street and would've provided $23M for children's shows

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Comcast's spinoff of the majority of the NBCU cable network portfolio will be named Versant; the “holding company” name is for “business-to-business purposes”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBC plans to use generative AI to recreate the voice of famed NBA narrator Jim Fagan, who died in 2017, to use in promos, title sequences, and show opens

More News

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
A look at AI-generated fake movie trailers on YouTube; WBD, Paramount, and Sony have earned ad revenue from some videos instead of defending their copyright
Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie:
Hamish McKenzie says Substack is partnering with FIRE to support “writers residing lawfully” in the US targeted by the government for their writing
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
A book excerpt details how the OpenAI board ousted Sam Altman with help from Mira Murati, who provided examples of his alleged lies and other toxic behavior

Earlier Picks

Arfa Javaid / Financial Express:
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
Bloomberg:
Source: the new combined entity housing xAI and X is called XAI Holdings and is valued at more than $100B but less than $113B, since X already owned part of xAI
Pete Schroeder / Reuters:
The US FDIC says banks can engage in cryptocurrency and other legally permitted activities without prior regulatory approval if they manage risks appropriately
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