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November 14, 2023, 4:30 PM
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Chris Velazco / Washington Post:
Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, a Sunbird-based app that lets Phone (2) users send iMessages to iPhone contacts, on November 17  —  Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before  —  Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they have uploaded realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including using its own tools, in 2024  —  Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties  —  YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast AI, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first  —  Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Civitai, where users share AI models and AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, debuts a bounties feature and raised a $5.1M a16z-led seed  —  Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook …
James Somers / New Yorker:
A eulogy for coding, which has felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after LLMs swallowed bodies of knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master  —  Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain.  Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Khosla Ventures is raising a $500M seed fund, a $1.6B venture fund, and a $900M growth fund, larger than their $300M, $1B, and $550M predecessors, respectively  —  The fundraise is one of the largest completed by a VC firm this year, defying startup slump  —  Khosla Ventures is in the final stages …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers collect and sell browsing data in greater detail than previously known, including on those in sensitive jobs  —  Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Top500: the AMD-based Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 EFlop/s, above the Argonne National Laboratory's Intel-based Aurora at 585.34 PFlop/s
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more  —  Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them.  Inside the humble workshop …
More: The Verge.  Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon ….  X: @mkbhd and @mikehofman.  LinkedIn: Farul Mohd Ghazali
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Sources: Anu Hariharan, the former head of YC Continuity that was scrapped in March, has started a “YC for growth” fund, called Avra, aiming to raise ~$350M  —  Anu Hariharan, who led YC Continuity before the storied accelerator scrapped the program, has partnered …
Bloomberg:
Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B from 2020 to 2023 to make Google Search, the Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung's mobile devices  —  - Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told  — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry

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Joe Sonka / Louisville Public Media:
McClatchy enacts deep, nationwide layoffs, including at the Lexington Herald-Leader, Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer, and Idaho Statesman

Abid Rahman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico had to stream on YouTube, skipping broadcast TV, due to ABC's fight with the FCC

New York Times:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that prohibits social media platforms from offering addictive features to users under 16, the first such law in the US

More News

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and executives, releases voluntary guidelines for startups to build AI responsibly, signed by Bain, IVP, and 33 other VCs
Joshua Rothman / New Yorker:
A profile of Geoffrey Hinton, who argues that by analyzing human writing, LLMs like GPT can comprehend the meanings of words and learn how the world works

Earlier Picks

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop clear, consistent moderation policies and to manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
London-based Fnality, which is developing a blockchain-based wholesale payment system, raised a £77.7M Series B led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas
Nathan Grayson / Aftermath:
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and eliminates 180+ jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber plans to test Uber Tasks, a TaskRabbit-like service that lets users hire people to complete household tasks, in Fort Myers and Edmonton in the coming weeks
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing shows that Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales from its early 2022 launch through H1 2023
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out the option for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account, addressing an early complaint with the app
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware
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