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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute — The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together …
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| Financial Times: |
Ahead of the UK's AI summit, Chinese scientists warned of AI's “existential risk to humanity”; the UK announces that South Korea will host the next AI Summit — Attendees of Bletchley Park gathering convened by UK premier Rishi Sunak warn of ‘existential risk to humanity’
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| Washington Post: |
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's ambition to revolutionize health care: some breakthroughs marred by philosophical disagreements, a culture of conservatism, and tech realities — The company is working on big things, but employees disagree over whether they should be serving people who are healthy or sick.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans several new health features for 2024's Apple Watch, like an elevated blood pressure sensor, and a paid health service, possibly using AI — - AirPods will get hearing-aid capability and hearing tests — AI health coach in the works, as are Vision Pro health tools| 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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
If we accept the premise that regulation locks in incumbents, then it's notable that the early AI winners seem the most invested in generating alarm about AI — In 2019, a very animated Bill Gates explained to Andrew Ross Sorkin why Microsoft lost mobile:| David Pierce / The Verge: |
US v. Google offers a rare look at Google's top 20 queries by revenue for a week in September 2018: iPhone, insurance, cheap flights, online colleges, and more — Not all Google searches make Google money. Google often says that it only shows ads on about 20 percent of queries, the ones it calls “commercial queries.”| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google declared a “Code Yellow” emergency in February 2019 for seven weeks, reassigning engineers to figure out why user search queries had slowed — - Search executive said team was ‘getting too involved with ads’ — Company declared emergency in 2019 over slow query growth| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony's Bungie cut ~100 jobs out of ~1,200 after executives said 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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| New York Times: |
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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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Shareholder letter: Netflix says its ad tier has 15M+ MAUs globally, accounting for ~30% of new sign-ups where it's available, and plans new ad formats for 2024 — Netflix is ready to use “The Crown,” “Squid Game” and other signature series to take ad dollars from rival streamers.
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
Apple loses a bid to block a mass UK lawsuit over allegedly hiding battery issues in iPhones and “throttling” them via updates; Apple calls the suit “baseless” — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Wednesday lost a bid to block a mass London lawsuit accusing it of hiding defective batteries … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube “launched a global effort” to encourage ad blocker users to allow ads or try YouTube Premium, after a “small experiment globally” started in June 2023 — YouTube is broadening its efforts to crack down on ad blockers. The platform has “launched a global effort” …
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| New York Times: |
Check Point details Iran's monthslong hacking espionage campaign targeting the country's rivals, like 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 …
More: Check Point Research, Hackread, The Record, SecurityWeek, and Check Point Blog
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
LinkedIn announces a GPT-4-powered AI chatbot that the company calls a “job seeker coach”, available to Premium users, and says the platform now has 1B+ members — - LinkedIn said it surpassed 1 billion members and debuted an AI chatbot billed as a “job seeker coach” and other generative AI tools for Premium members.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Apple shipped 2.5M iPhones in India in Q3, its highest quarterly shipments; Samsung remained top with a 17.2% share, followed by Xiaomi (16.6%) and Vivo (15.9%) — - With a 17.2% share, Samsung remained the market leader for the fourth consecutive quarter.| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
HSBC launches a blockchain platform to tokenize ownership of gold held in its London vault; HSBC is one of the world's largest custodians of precious metals — - System creates tokens representing gold in bank's vault — Blockchain allows investors to more easily track gold they own| Shivangi Acharya / Reuters: |
Sources: India authorizes 110 companies, including Apple, Dell, HP, Samsung, Xiaomi, and Lenovo, to import laptops, tablets, and PCs under its tech import rules — Apple (AAPL.O), Dell (DELL.N), HP (HPE.N), Samsung (005930.KS) and Lenovo (0992.HK) are among 110 firms authorised by India to import laptops …
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| Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post: |
After three hours of oral arguments, SCOTUS came to no consensus on whether public officials can block social media critics, part of two First Amendment cases — The Supreme Court will decide several cases this term that impact the future of free speech on social media platforms
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| Tim Wu / The Atlantic: |
Despite broad support by the US public and lawmakers for child internet laws, Congress has done nothing, even after holding 39 hearings on the topic since 2017 — Americans are broadly united in support of laws to make the internet safer for kids. So why doesn't Congress act?
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Google, Temasek, and Bain research: online spending in Southeast Asia will rise ~11% in 2023 to $218B, slowing from 20% in 2022 and its lowest rate since 2017 — - Region's digital economy cools as consumers curb spending — Researchers cut near-term e-commerce growth estimate by 13%| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and Match Group reach a settlement in their app store antitrust case: Google plans to let 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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