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Meta restarts training its AI systems on UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” to be “even more transparent” — Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.
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LinkedIn: Markus Reinisch and Marco Pancini
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The White House plans to curb the “overuse and abuse” of the de minimis loophole used by Shein and Temu, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs — The Biden administration announced new steps on Friday to curtail what it calls the “overuse and abuse” …
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LinkedIn: Alex Kent, Pete Mento, Laura Murphy, Deborah Elms, Nick Coverdale, Matthew Hertz, and Richard Mojica
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo and Uber plan to expand their two-year partnership in Phoenix to Austin and Atlanta, where Waymo robotaxis can be hailed only on Uber's app, in early 2025 — Waymo and Uber — bitter enemies turned awkwardly polite work friends — announced they were expanding their two-year robotaxi partnership …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI's $150B valuation in a $6.5B funding round hinges on whether the company can upend its corporate structure and remove a profit cap for investors — OpenAI's new financing round is expected to come in the form of convertible notes, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter … | TechCrunch: |
A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation — Some shareholders are threatening to sue — TuSimple, once a buzzy startup considered a leader in self-driving trucks … | Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: |
Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X and Starlink after withdrawing ~$3.3M from the accounts to pay for fines imposed by the Supreme Court — - Transfer ends Starlink's banking freeze in the country — But social-media platform X remains banned by judicial order
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's “monopoly” — - Employees concluded ad tech ‘monopoly’ hurt competition — The social network eventually signed an agreement with Google| Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias — Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.
More: New York Times, CoinDesk, Blockworks, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, CNN, and The Block
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: 23andMe will pay $30M to settle a lawsuit for failing to protect the privacy of 6.9M customers whose personal info was exposed in a 2023 data breach — 23andMe (ME.O) will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company …
More: BleepingComputer, PCMag, The Record, The Verge, TechCrunch, and One America News Network
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Trump says he has “absolutely no intention” of selling his Trump Media stock when the lockup period expires; DJT initially popped 25%+, then closed up about 12% — Shares of Trump Media shot up Friday, minutes after majority owner Donald Trump said he has no plans to sell his stake.
More: Washington Examiner, Politico, New York Times, CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, The Indian Express, and NBC News
Forums: r/politics and r/inthenews
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
MicroStrategy stock jumped 8%+ on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said it purchased another $1.1B worth of bitcoin, taking its bitcoin holdings to $14.6B — MicroStrategy shares jumped more than 8% on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said the company purchased another $1.1 billion worth of bitcoin.| Rachyl Jones / Semafor: |
Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage — THE SCOOP — Software engineers at the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike complained about rushed deadlines, excessive workloads … | Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US workers in high-tech roles in 2022, similar to the 22% in 2005, even as the number of lucrative jobs has soared — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair urges companies not to pull back from efforts to promote workplace diversity and inclusion.
More: Reuters, Bloomberg Law, and U.S. Equal Employment …
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LinkedIn: Gloria Bell and Peter Romer-Friedman
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United Airlines plans to start testing Starlink internet service in early 2025, with the first passenger flights likely equipped with free Wi-Fi later in 2025 — Airlines see satellites providing faster, more consistent connections — Elon Musk may soon provide the Wi-Fi on your United flight.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI's o1 models aren't a straightforward upgrade to GPT-4o, as they introduce some major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning” — OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …
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Threads: @alexkantrowitz and @mergesort
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LinkedIn: Chris Bush and Senko Rašić
Forums: Hacker News and r/ControlProblem
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LinkedIn: Murat Cakir, Matt Kroll, and Greg Yeutter
Forums: Hacker News, r/Professors, r/ChatGPTPro, r/slatestarcodex, and r/singularity
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