| 2024-11-15 |
How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots a humanlike understanding of the physical world by feeding data from robots doing tasks into its AI model (Will Knight/Wired) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney says he led an effort to buy Grubhub for $1B+ around the start of 2024 and in 2022; Wonder bought Grubhub for $650M on Nov. 13 (Financial Times) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry (Decrypt) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
The US DOJ says Cruise admits to submitting a false report to influence an investigation into an October 2023 crash with a pedestrian and will pay a $500K fine (David Shepardson/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
NASA partners with Microsoft to create Earth Copilot, an AI chatbot that can answer questions about the Earth using NASA's geospatial information (Emma Roth/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool (Emma Roth/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Applied Materials reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.05B, vs. $6.95B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; AMAT drops 5%+ after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $17.85B, above est., and net income up 44% YoY to $358.5M, vs. $343.3M est.; IDC: Lenovo's PC shipments grew 3% YoY (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 (Dag Spicer/CHM) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers (Michael Kan/PCMag) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Sources: the US House Select Committee on China summoned Amazon staffers in September to discuss concerns about Amazon's shopping partnership with TikTok (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Anthropic is working with the US DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure Claude models don't share dangerous information about nuclear energy (Sam Sabin/Axios) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
BSA, representing OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, urges Trump to review rules that are "unnecessarily impeding AI adoption" but to keep some of Biden's moves (Morgan Chalfant/Semafor) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure (Financial Times) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a company with a friend, but doesn't offer details (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules set to go into effect in October 2025 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Q&A with pseudonymous AI researcher Gwern Branwen on anonymity, the grand theory of intelligence, seeing LLM scaling early, AGI timelines, blogging, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Adam Mosseri says Threads had "more than 15M signups in November alone" and it is "going on three months with more than a million signups a day" (Jay Peters/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
The EU publishes its first draft of a Code of Practice under the AI Act for general-purpose AI models, including provisions for copyright and systemic risk (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
BitSight, the cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4B, acquires Cybersixgill, which gathers threat intelligence data from the dark web, for $115M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Echoing TikTok's gifting, YouTube is rolling out "jewels" that users can buy to support creators during livestreams, for those in the YouTube Partner Program (Umar Shakir/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Amazon One Medical expands telehealth services with cheap treatment plans and medication delivery for beauty and lifestyle issues like hair loss and skin care (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted (Tony Romm/Washington Post) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Google releases a new free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions and chat via text, voice, or camera, as well as use conversational Gemini Live (David Pierce/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and "imposing unfair trading conditions" on rival websites, the first such fine for Meta (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Snap unveils new Snapchat location and privacy tools, including letting parents request their teen's location and view their location-sharing settings (Quentyn Kennemer/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Microsoft releases Windows 11 ISOs for Arm64 PCs, letting users clean install Windows via official offline media, including the latest Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Google updates Maps to help users search for products like home goods, clothing, and electronics and find stores nearby, improve traffic reporting, and more (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
X names Mahmoud Reza Banki as CFO; Banki, who Trump pardoned for making false statements in January 2021, was Tubi CFO and, a source says, joined X in November (Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Experts expect Trump to relax business cybersecurity rules, drop human rights concerns on spyware, and take an aggressive stance on US adversaries' cyber armies (Eric Geller/Wired) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Estonian ride-hailing and food delivery startup Bolt says it hit €2B in annual revenue and plans a 2025 IPO; Bolt had an $8B+ valuation in January 2022 (Alessandro Parodi/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 5.1% YoY to ~$36B, above $35.9B est., and net income up 48% YoY to ~$1.6B, suggesting a recovery in segments of China's economy (Claire Che/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Sonos reports Q4 revenue down 8% YoY to $1.5B, spent $4M on "app recovery investments", and has released 16 app updates and "restored 90% of missing features" (Chris Welch/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Apple releases updates to Final Cut Pro, adding AI-generated closed captions and Vision Pro spatial video editing, and Logic Pro for macOS and iPadOS (John Voorhees/MacStories) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
A look at "blind box livestreaming", an e-commerce trend in China that has become an entertaining and, some users and experts said, addictive pastime (New York Times) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
How the rise of automation in manufacturing across China, the largest market for industrial robots, is forcing the country's manufacturing workforce to adapt (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap (Michelle Anindya/Rest of World) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to write and maintain code, raised $125M across seed and Series A, sources say at a $500M+ post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Indian mom-and-pop "kirana" stores are struggling to compete with quick commerce on discounts and delivery; ~200K kirana stores have closed in the past year (Rest of World) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on AI-generated music, NotebookLM podcasts, AI recommendations, improving discoverability, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to a record ~$57.01B, a ~$1.5B net income, vs. ~$1.41B est., and expects half of its server orders in 2025 to be for AI (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
A look at Vietnam's expansion in the $95B chip packaging industry; SIA and BCG expect Vietnam to have 8%-9% of the global share by 2032, up from 1% in 2022 (Francesco Guarascio/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Researchers detail RoboPAIR, an algorithm that is designed to induce robots, relying on LLMs for their inputs, to ignore models' safeguards without exception (Charles Q. Choi/IEEE Spectrum) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Nvidia says Jetson Thor, a computer first unveiled in March 2024 and designed for testing humanoid robot software, will be available in the first half of 2025 (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Sources: the UK Treasury is planning to introduce legislation on stablecoins and staking; the FCA says it plans to publish a crypto regulatory roadmap "shortly" (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Nvidia B200 GPU and Google Trillium TPU debut on the MLPerf Training v4.1 benchmark charts; the B200 posted a doubling of performance on some tests vs. the H100 (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
US filing: FTX co-founder Gary Wang, due for sentencing on November 20, built "tools" to help the US detect potential fraud in the stock and crypto markets (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
TrendForce: the ASP of high-end AI chips from Nvidia and others is ~5x more than conventional memory chips, creating a winner-takes-all trend in the chip sector (June Yoon/Financial Times) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Sources: Thrive Capital is in talks to invest ~$1B in analytics software maker Databricks at a ~$55B valuation; PitchBook says DataBricks has raised $4B+ so far (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Australia plans to enact laws imposing a "digital duty of care" on big tech, which would make companies liable for citizens' safety online (Nicole Hegarty/ABC) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Google says real-time protections against scam calls and malicious apps are rolling out on Pixel 6 or newer devices and coming soon to more Android phones (Abner Li/9to5Google) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking £3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked ~40M UK users into iCloud services (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly accepting bets from US users (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
FBI and CISA: Chinese hackers breached multiple US telecom companies, compromising the "private communications" of US officials and stealing customer call data (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Spotify plans to pay incentives to video creators who hit certain viewing thresholds and, in January, to let Premium subscribers view podcast videos without ads (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
DeepL, which was valued at $2B in May 2024, debuts DeepL Voice to give users real-time text translations of others speaking in one of 13 different languages (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Cisco reports Q1 revenue down 6% YoY to $13.8B, vs. $13.77B estimated, net income down 25% to $2.7B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Google announces new features for the Fitbit Ace LTE, its smartwatch for kids, including family group chats, messaging for siblings, and a new mini-game (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch a new AI agent codenamed Operator, which can use a computer to take actions on a person's behalf, in January (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
FBI seizes Polymarket CEO's phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source (Taylor Herzlich/New York Post) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
AMD says it will lay off ~4% of its global staff to align "resources with our largest growth opportunities"; SEC filing: AMD had 26,000 employees at 2023's end (Ramish Zafar/Wccftech) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Toronto-based Zero Gravity Labs, which is building a decentralized AI operating system, raised a $40M seed and secured a $250M "token purchase commitment" (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Docs and sources: Amazon has discontinued a secretive effort to develop an at-home fertility tracker, which was part of its moonshot incubator Grand Challenge (Annie Palmer/CNBC) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
AMD to lay off 4% of workforce, or about 1,000 employees (Kif Leswing/CNBC) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
Sources: Instagram's ad unit plans to launch ads on Threads in early 2025; Meta's public statements imply any ad rollout for Threads next year will be slow (The Information) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
CoreWeave closed a $650M secondary share sale led by Jane Street, Magnetar, Fidelity Management, and Macquarie Capital, a source says at a $23B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
South Korea arrests 215 people on suspicion of stealing $228M in crypto, the country's biggest crypto investment scam with 28 types of tokens sold to 15K people (Cynthia Kim/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
A group of 13 former TSMC staff sue the company in California over an alleged "discriminatory scheme" that favors Taiwanese foreign workers at its US plants (Sarah Emerson/Forbes) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Sources: execs at xAI's rivals were alarmed by how fast the startup set up the 100K GPU cluster Colossus; a source says Sam Altman argued with Microsoft over it (Anissa Gardizy/The Information) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Italy, Spain, and other EU countries (Emma Roth/The Verge) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Amazon debuts Amazon Haul, a storefront in its app offering "crazy low prices" on a range of items, with free shipping on $25+ orders, to take on Temu and Shein (Annie Palmer/CNBC) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
A US judge rules that Meta must face trial in a US FTC lawsuit seeking its breakup over claims that it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to crush its competitors (Jody Godoy/Reuters) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors should form a "North American Compact for AI" to compete with China in talent, financing, and more (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
PitchBook: tech as a percentage of total private equity deal value was 28.3% in Q3, up from 18.7% in Q2, as VC firms and tech startups turn to PE for liquidity (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who won't rule out more Xbox games on other consoles, says an Xbox handheld is "a few years out", and more (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Super Micro delays another filing as it searches for a new accounting firm, saying it can't file its 10-Q for Q3 2024, after failing to file its annual 10-K (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model misses internal targets (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Sources: top crypto executives are courting Bitcoin enthusiast and Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick; the industry is seeking to reshape the SEC and more (New York Times) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
How Roger Ver, known as "Bitcoin Jesus", is fighting the IRS, which says he owes $48M+ after selling $240M in tokens, from Mallorca after his April 2024 arrest (Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 14.7M users in total (Callie Holtermann/New York Times) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Charles Sporck, an early champion of globalization who moved some of Fairchild's chip assembly operations from the US to Hong Kong in the 1960s, died at 96 (James R. Hagerty/Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$23.9B and net income up 20% YoY to ~$7.4B, vs. ~$6.2B est., buoyed by Dungeon & Fighter Mobile and Black Myth: Wukong (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
PitchBook: Q3 2024 crypto VC funding fell 31.3% YoY to $1.7B and VC deals fell 25.3% YoY to 392, as infrastructure startups continued to draw investors' focus (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Aicpb.com: ByteDance's Doubao had 51M MAUs in China, the highest for AI chatbots in China, ahead of 12.5M for Baidu's Wenxiaoyan and 10M for Moonshot AI's Kimi (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
CBRE: tech companies leased 9.9M square feet of US office space in Q3, up from ~8M in Q2 and the highest since Q4 2021, as demand grows from new AI companies (Peter Grant/Wall Street Journal) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Media executives say that some brands were preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk was likely to gain an influential Trump administration role (Financial Times) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Klarna files for a US IPO; analysts put Klarna's implied valuation at ~$14.6B in October 2024 after shareholder Chrysalis upped the value of its stake to $154M (Charles Daly/Bloomberg) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Just Eat Takeaway says it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to "restyle" licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts (Emma Roth/The Verge) |
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