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Sam Altman says OpenAI “of course” has no plans to leave Europe, reversing a threat to exit the region if the company can't comply with the EU's upcoming AI Act — OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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A California jury finds Google's products infringed on a Sonos smart speaker patent and orders Google to pay $32.5M, or $2.30 for each of the 14M+ devices sold — Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on the company's smart speaker patent.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of customer FSD complaint data from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400+ self-acceleration issues — A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints … | Reuters: |
Sources: PE firms Francisco Partners and TPG have ended talks to acquire observability software company New Relic after failing to secure enough debt financing — Private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG Inc (TPG.O) have ended talks to acquire New Relic Inc (NEWR.N) … | CNBC: |
Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut a project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles on Facebook — - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety … | Scott J. Shapiro / IEEE Spectrum: |
How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters — First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Bluesky rolls out a “custom feeds” feature that lets users subscribe to different algorithms and make their own for others to use; most are not chronological — A future update will allow users to create their own within the app. — Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized … | FinSMEs: |
Germany-based Sastrify, which operates a marketplace for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised a $32M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55.2M — Sastrify, a Cologne, Germany-based provider of a platform for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised $32M in Series B funding.| Vignesh R. / Silicon Canals: |
Paris-based Sekoia, a platform for the real-time detection of cyberattacks, raised a $35M Series A from Banque des Territoires, Bright Pixel, and BNP Paribas — Paris-based Sekoia.io, a cybersecurity SaaS company, announced on Wednesday, May 24, that it has raised €35M from Banque des Territoires … | Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US SEC's record $279M whistleblower award in May 2023 stemmed from Ericsson pleading guilty to breaching a $1.1B settlement in a 2019 bribery case — The largest-ever award in the SEC's cash-for-tips program was related to Ericsson's bribery case| Wired: |
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more — We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.| Bloomberg: |
France's CNIL says Microsoft changed the way the company tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022 and threatened fines of €60K per day — Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine.
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