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On his final day of testimony, SBF denied knowing that billions of dollars in customer money had been misappropriated until shortly before FTX collapsed — The founder of the FTX crypto exchange was grilled by a federal prosecutor for a second day, just before both sides rested their case in the criminal fraud trial.
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A look back at testimony from Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh and SBF's counterclaims, as the jury prepares to deliberate over who told the truth — Former crypto tycoon will soon learn whether he was able to successfully counter his former colleagues' testimony — Four people were in the room.
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Sources: Bungie cut ~100 jobs after executives said the company's revenue was 45% below projections for the year, citing a drop in Destiny 2's popularity — - Sales at studio were running 45% below projections for year — Layoffs are part of a bigger revamp at Sony PlayStation unit
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube “launched a global effort” to encourage users with ad blockers to allow ads or try YouTube Premium, after a “small experiment” earlier in 2023 — YouTube is broadening its efforts to crack down on ad blockers. The platform has “launched a global effort” … | AI Snake Oil: |
What Biden's EO means for AI openness, and why a compute threshold is unlikely to effectively anticipate individual models' riskiness, but may work in aggregate — Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details — The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta's Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture — - Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis told CNBC that the company wasn't trying to achieve “regulatory capture” when it came to the discussion on how best to approach AI.
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 4% YoY to $5.8B, vs. $5.7B est., net income up 353% YoY to $299M, Data Center revenue of $1.6B, and Q4 sales forecast below estimates — Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday … | Washington Post: |
Ahead of the UK's AI Summit, set to host Elon Musk, VP Harris, and others, the UK has highlighted doomsday scenarios while the US has focused on tangible issues — Vice President Harris, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other top executives are heading to the United Kingdom's Bletchley Park …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a Windows 11 2023 Update that replaces Chat with Microsoft Teams (Free); big features like Copilot and AI-powered Paint arrived in September — Microsoft is releasing its Windows 11 2023 Update today, which was originally supposed to be one of the biggest updates to Windows 11.
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Check Point details a monthslong espionage campaign by Iranian hackers targeting countries, including Israel, underscoring Iran's improved hacking capabilities — A monthslong hacking campaign targeted the governments of regional rivals, including Israel, and marked a turn, a new report says …
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The Guardian says its reputation was damaged after Microsoft Start placed an AI-generated poll about a woman's death next to the outlet's article about her — Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman's death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’
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US v. Google: Google internally declared “Code Yellow” emergency in February 2019 for seven weeks to figure out why user search queries have slowed down — - Search executive said team was ‘getting too involved with ads’ — Company declared emergency in 2019 over slow query growth| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind says its latest AlphaFold model can generate predictions for nearly all molecules in the Protein Data Bank and for ligands, nucleic acids, and more — Nearly five years ago, DeepMind, one of Google's more prolific AI-centered research labs, debuted AlphaFold, an AI system … | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Google, Temasek, and Bain report: Southeast Asia online spending will rise ~11% in 2023 to $218B, down from 20% in 2022, slowing to its lowest rate since 2017 — - Region's digital economy cools as consumers curb spending — Researchers cut near-term e-commerce growth estimate by 13%
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Tesla wins its first US trial over allegations that Autopilot led to a death, in a jury trial in a California court, but faces more lawsuits and investigations — Tesla (TSLA.O) on Tuesday won the first U.S. trial over allegations that its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death …
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| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
Ahead of India's 2024 elections, politicians are using voice cloning tools to deliver personalized messages, as AI-generated songs featuring Modi gain traction — AI-generated songs, like the ones featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are gaining traction ahead of India's upcoming elections.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and Match Group say they have reached a settlement in an app store antitrust case, letting Match implement third-party billing options by March 31, 2024 — Google and Match announced today they've reached a settlement in the antitrust battle Match waged against the tech giant …
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