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| Financial Times: |
Sources: 97%+ of OpenAI staff have signed the letter threatening to quit in board standoff; investors explore legal measures to force board to reverse course — More than 95% of employees have threatened to quit and join Microsoft if board refuses to resign
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI interim CEO Emmett Shear has told people close to OpenAI that he doesn't plan to remain if the board can't clearly tell him why it fired Altman — Sam Altman and members of the OpenAI board have opened negotiations aimed at a possible return of the ousted co-founder …
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @waxmonkey.bsky.social. X: @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @ashleevance, and @ashleevance
Forums: r/ChatGPT and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
A profile of Sam Altman, the AI industry's de facto ambassador despite lacking a scientific background; a source says “his superpower is getting people on side” — Ousted OpenAI chief inspires staff and investors as leader of the generative AI revolution
More: New York Times, Forbes, Business Insider, New York Times, and Bloomberg
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, and Ars OpenForum
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| CNBC: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Matthew Prince / @eastdakota: |
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X: @mgsiegler, @eastdakota, @bryce, @m2jr, @stevehouf, @trav_winn, @asemota, @karaswisher, and @kantrowitz. Forums: Hacker News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: CZ's deal lets him retain his majority ownership of Binance, although he won't be able to have an executive role at the company — Zhao's crypto exchange will also admit wrongdoing and agree to pay $4.3 billion in fines — The chief executive of Binance, the largest global …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Buttcoin
| CNBC: |
Binance and CZ plead guilty to federal charges as part of a $4.3B settlement with the US DOJ; charges include violating sanctions and anti-money laundering laws — - The U.S. Department of Justice has brought criminal charges against Binance and its billionaire founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao.| @cz_binance: |
Changpeng Zhao says he is stepping down as CEO of Binance and that Richard Teng, formerly the Global Head of Regional Markets, has been named CEO — Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do. I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility. This is best for our community, for Binance, and for myself. Binance is no longer a baby. It is...
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Texas' AG, “troubled” by Elon Musk's claims, probes Media Matters, which calls X's suit “frivolous”; X avoids anti-SLAPP statutes by filing in the 5th Circuit — X, formerly Twitter, has followed through with owner Elon Musk's threat to sue the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters.
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X: @elonmusk, @kenpaxtontx, @erininthemorn, @collinrugg, @joshuaerlich, @jamisonfoser, @scottjshapiro, @chrisgeidner, @wendysiegelman, @advisercounsel, and @rmac18. Forums: r/FreeSpeech
| Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: |
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
More: Fortune, The Information, and 9to5Mac
| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Anthropic debuts Claude 2.1, offering a context window of up to 200K tokens, or ~150K words, a claimed 50%+ increase in accuracy, new API integrations, and more — Claude 2.1 boasts a 150K word context window to parse long documents, 50%+ accuracy gains, early support for tool integration, and more.
More: Anthropic, VentureBeat, Engadget, Forbes, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Baseline, Voicebot.ai, The Decoder, and Stack Diary
Threads: @joenandez. X: @anthropicai, @mattshumer_, @neeravkingsland, and @_akhaliq. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos to make a long-awaited push into headphones with a $400 model coming as early as April, is working on a video service and streaming device, more — - Company plans to compete with Bose and Apple with headphones — New Roam speaker, high-end sound bar and video service coming
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| The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: a Google exec confirms that Spotify pays no commission when users buy subscriptions via Spotify's payment system and 4% when they pay via Google — Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments …
More: TechSpot, MobileSyrup, Android Police, Hindustan Times, Android Central, and Engadget
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Del Harvey, who led Twitter's trust and safety team for 13 years until 2021, on the X rebrand, her role, Gamergate, Donald Trump, January 6, and more — From Israel vs. Hamas threats to Donald Trump's “wild” posts, Del Harvey helped make the platform's hardest content moderation calls for 13 years.| Anel Islamovic / Stability AI: |
Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion in research preview, its first foundation model for generative video based on the Stable Diffusion image model — Today, we are releasing Stable Video Diffusion, our first foundation model for generative video based on the image model Stable Diffusion.
More: The Decoder and Stack Diary
X: @_akhaliq, @iscienceluvr, and @stabilityai
Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, and r/StableDiffusion
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify unveils new royalty policies from 2024: tracks must hit 1,000 streams in the previous year and noise recordings must be over two minutes — The company claims the updates will drive an additional $1 billion toward artists, by re-directing the payments that had previously gone to fraudulent streams …
More: Spotify for Artists, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Engadget, Rolling Stone, UPROXX, and Billboard. Forums: r/popheads
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a lawsuit, the US SEC accuses Kraken of commingling customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency, and dealer — The U.S. crypto exchange is the latest targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a series of similar actions being fought in court by other companies.
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X: @jespow, @senlummis, @krakenfx, @jespow, @orlando_btc, @indian_bronson, @coinbureau, @ryansadams, @danprimack, @0xmert_, @twobitidiot, @mayazi, @ryansadams, @cuntycakes123, @belisarius2020, @leomschwartz, @leomschwartz, @conraddit, @jseyff, @cameron, @twobitidiot, @attorneyjeremy1, and @parrotcapital
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 206% YoY to $18.12B, vs. $16.18B est., Data Center revenue up 279% YoY to $14.51B, and net income up 1,259% YoY to $9.2B — - Nvidia's results surpassed analysts' projections for revenue and income in the fiscal fourth quarter.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Constellation Research, and Forbes
X: @rihardjarc, @ericjhonsa, @benbajarin, @divestech, and @morningbrew
| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Palantir and Accenture win a £480M NHS contract to overhaul the UK's patient data system; some worry about privacy as patients can't opt out of data sharing — - Platform will help hospitals detect patterns in medical data — Palantir's software managed UK's Covid vaccine rollout| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Broadcom plans to close its $69B VMware acquisition on November 22, after receiving approval from Chinese regulators, which added new restrictions — Broadcom (AVGO.O) said it planned to close its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing firm VMWare (VMW.N) on Wednesday …
More: SiliconANGLE, Network World, TechStartups, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, and Financial Times
X: @ryanshrout and @ctoadvisor
| Financial Times: |
Filings: Tether deposited $1B+ with Britannia Financial, founded by a Tory donor later charged by the US with bribery, a rare look at its banking relationships — Funds from the world's largest stablecoin issuer are at the centre of a High Court battle — Tether deposited more than $1bn …
More: Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptonews, crypto.news, and Protos
X: @bitfinexed, @bondhack, and @ttmygh
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Buttcoin
| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
YouTube confirms that “users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing”, after users reported five-second delays on non-Chrome browsers — - Users are reportedly seeing a five-second delay when loading YouTube videos in non-Chrome browsers …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/youtube, r/technology, and r/technews
| Washington Post: |
Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP — MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales …
X: @aaschapiro, @gerryshih, @gerryshih, @anujbhuwania, @vakashas, @radishharmers, @mrnarci, @anantguptaag, and @gerryshih
Forums: r/TrueReddit, r/atheismindia, and r/india
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A London tribunal rules Sony must face a lawsuit alleging it abused its dominance by forcing digital games and add-ons to be bought and sold only via its store — Sony (6758.T) must face a mass lawsuit worth up to 6.3 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) over claims the PlayStation maker abused …
More: Game Developer, Kotaku, and Competition Appeal Tribunal
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