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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: |
More: The Hill, Fortune, Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Politico, Global Times, CityAM, Reuters, Center for Human …, Politico, Amnesty International, SecurityWeek, Associated Press, and Bloomberg
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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.
More: 9to5Google, Android Authority, Insider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Macworld, iThinkDifferent, PhoneArena, UploadVR, Redmond Pie, iClarified, Gadgets & Wearables, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, XDA Developers, BGR, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, and Tech in Asia
X: @tomgara, @markgurman, @chaitanya7483, and @shwinyo
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans new health features for 2024's Apple Watch, like an elevated blood pressure sensor, and a paid health coaching 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
More: Gizmodo, The Messenger, Pocket-lint, Neowin, Droid Life, SlashGear, CNBC, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, and Wccftech
| CoinDesk: |
The US SEC charges SafeMoon and its exec team for selling unregistered crypto securities and misappropriating investors' funds the team had said were “locked” — Crypto company SafeMoon's CEO and chief technology officer were arrested, accused of withdrawing more than $200M …
More: US Securities …, US Department of Justice, DL News, Protos, Bloomberg, Blockworks, The Block, Decrypt, CryptoPotato, Fortune, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Crowdfund Insider, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, Seeking Alpha, and FXStreet
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| 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.”
More: Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, and PhoneArena
| 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
More: Search Engine Land and Android Headlines
| 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.
More: Mozilla, TechCrunch, DatacenterDynamics, Semafor, Hardcore Software, Platformer, CPO Magazine, Android Headlines, Cryptonews, CNBC, and New York Times
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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:
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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 UK lawsuit over allegedly hiding defective iPhone batteries and “throttling” them via updates; Apple calls the lawsuit “baseless” — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Wednesday lost a bid to block a mass London lawsuit accusing it of hiding defective batteries …
More: Competition Appeal Tribunal, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Android Authority, AppleInsider, The Verge, Neowin, Bloomberg, Stack Diary, MacRumors, and MacDailyNews
Forums: r/technology and MacRumors Forums
| RT Watson / The Block: |
Coinbase announces that eligible US retail customers can now access bitcoin and ether futures contracts through Coinbase Financial Markets — - Coinbase's service offering crypto futures trading to eligible retail U.S. customers is now active and includes “nano” bitcoin contracts.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Snowflake announces Snowflake Cortex, a fully managed service designed to help business users and developers work with AI-fueled apps on its Data Cloud platform — Companies use Snowflake to store their data in the cloud. With the ever growing interest in generative AI and large language models … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Music has quietly discontinued its $4.99/month Voice Plan, which was introduced in 2021 and let users access the Apple Music catalog exclusively via Siri — Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn't tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the …
More: TechHive, Macworld, Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and The Apple Post
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
CRM platform HubSpot announces it's acquiring the B2B data provider Clearbit, which has 400K+ users and was valued at $250M as of January 2019, per PitchBook — HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software maker and CRM platform, announced today it's acquiring the B2B data provider Clearbit …
More: HubSpot, HubSpot, and B2B Marketing Intelligence
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| 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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Forums: r/Games, r/PS5, and r/destiny2
| 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| 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 … | 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.
More: PYMNTS.com, Reuters, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, The Hill, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Engadget, TechCrunch, and Fast Company
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Airbnb Q3: revenue up 18% YoY to $3.4B vs. $3.37B est., Nights and Experiences Booked up 14% YoY to 113.2M vs. 112.9M est., and a Q4 revenue forecast below est. — - Airbnb reported its third-quarter earnings results after the bell, beating consensus estimates on revenue but falling short … | Jessica Bursztynsky / Fast Company: |
DoorDash reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $2.16B, vs. $2.09B est., total orders up 24% YoY to 543M, net loss of $75M, down from $296M in Q3 2022, DASH jumps 7%+ — DoorDash reported its “best quarter ever” since its IPO in a number of key categories on Wednesday, which it says was driven partly … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Binance plans to end its partnership with payments firm Advcash that let customers move funds held at sanctioned Russian banks to the crypto exchange — Binance plans to shut down a partnership with a payments firm that allowed customers to move funds held at sanctioned Russian banks …
More: The Block, Watcher Guru, Coinpedia Fintech News, and crypto.news
| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
A look back at testimony from Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh and SBF's counterclaims, as the jury prepares to deliberate which version to believe — 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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