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November 14, 2023, 5:00 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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU lawmakers struggle to reach a compromise on the final shape of the AI Act, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundational models  —  Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications …
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
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 …
Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law:
Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not reauthorize FISA's Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023  —  More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging …

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Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition

Matt Cooper / University of Oregon:
A group of researchers say Twitch is increasingly becoming a news source, and traditional news outlets could use it for added income and audience engagement

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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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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