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November 14, 2023, 8:10 AM

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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret  —  Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
Bloomberg:
Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B over four years in 2020 to make Google Search, Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung mobile devices  —  - Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told  — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry
Nathan Grayson / Aftermath:
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023  —  Video game workers just can't catch a break  —  Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing: Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales since its early 2022 launch and lost $23M in H1 2023  —  The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out the ability for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account  —  Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too.  You'll be able to access the new feature …
James Somers / New Yorker:
A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master  —  Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain.  Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
Reuters:
Investigation: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts at the lack of action  —  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe's $20B Figma deal as early as this week; Adobe announced the deal in September 2022  —  EU preparing to file anti-competitive charges, according to people familiar with probe  —  Adobe's $20bn deal to buy Figma …
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and execs, releases a voluntary commitment for startups building AI responsibly, signed by Insight, IVP, and 33 other VCs  —  The new guidelines are part of an effort to enact some guardrails for potentially thousands of startups across the AI industry.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Top500: the AMD-powered Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 Exaflop/s, fending off the Argonne National Laboratory's Intel-powered Aurora  —  Intel's oft-delayed Aurora remains a work in progress.  —  The Top500 organization released its semi-annual list of the fastest supercomputers …

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