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| Financial Times: |
Sources: 97%+ of OpenAI staff have signed the letter threatening to quit in board standoff; investors explore legal measures to force board to reverse course — More than 95% of employees have threatened to quit and join Microsoft if board refuses to resign
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Bluesky: @fack.bsky.social. X: @kevin_scott, @lilianweng, @e0m, @schrep, @mustafasuleyman, @10x_er, @arthur_spirling, @coloradotravis, @alexandergerko, @levie, @shakoistslog, @gergelyorosz, @loganbartlett, @alexgraveley, @danshipper, @parmy, @quantian1, @lessin, @kris, @natemcgrady, @teneikaask_you, @reedalbergotti, @dharmesh, @liron, @nivi, @garybasin, @mattturck, @wyatt_privilege, @paulg, @pmarca, @polynoamial, @munster_gene, @marissamayer, @gerstenzang, @davidsacks, @fkasummer, @muneeb, @ronconway, @levie, @mattpaulsonsd, @millionint, @pearlf, @byrnehobart, @robleathern, @jowyang, @lex_node, @garymarcus, @eriktorenberg, @andrewmayne, @tunguz, @willmanidis, @asemota, @mickeyxfriedman, @joannastern, @alexrkonrad, and @tszzl
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI interim CEO Emmett Shear has told people close to OpenAI that he doesn't plan to remain if the board can't clearly tell him why it fired Altman — Sam Altman and members of the OpenAI board have opened negotiations aimed at a possible return of the ousted co-founder …
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @waxmonkey.bsky.social. X: @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @ashleevance, and @ashleevance
Forums: r/ChatGPT and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
A profile of Sam Altman, the AI industry's de facto ambassador despite lacking a scientific background; a source says “his superpower is getting people on side” — Ousted OpenAI chief inspires staff and investors as leader of the generative AI revolution
More: Forbes, New York Times, Business Insider, New York Times, and Bloomberg
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
More: Reuters, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Crunchbase News, The i Paper, Livemint, CCN.com, Cryptonews, crypto.news, The Messenger, Cryptopolitan, The Decoder, and Axios
X: @pitdesi, @quinnypig, @lexnfx, @kateclarktweets, @anissagardizy8, @amir, @nealkhosla, and @nmasc_. LinkedIn: Hamiz Mushtaq Awan
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, and Ars OpenForum
| Matthew Prince / @eastdakota: |
More: The Register, TechCrunch, Barron's Online, New York Times, Stratechery, and Financial Times
X: @mgsiegler, @eastdakota, @bryce, @m2jr, @stevehouf, @trav_winn, @asemota, @karaswisher, and @kantrowitz. Forums: Hacker News
| CNBC: |
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @emilychangtv, @alexeheath, @karaswisher, @emilychangtv, @tszzl, @danprimack, @amaldorai, @elonmusk, @levie, @danprimack, @hamids, @amir, @jakuuire, @emilychangtv, @toddbishop, @mikeisaac, @kyliebytes, @alexrkonrad, and @ilyasut
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
More: The Messenger, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, Sharon's AI Extra, The Verge, and The Information
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: CZ's deal lets him retain his majority ownership of Binance, although he won't be able to have an executive role at the company — Zhao's crypto exchange will also admit wrongdoing and agree to pay $4.3 billion in fines — The chief executive of Binance, the largest global …
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Threads: @voorhees_dnb. Mastodon: @w7voa@journa.host. X: @tier10k, @twobitidiot, @jeffjohnroberts, @danprimack, @pierre_crypt0, @dylanleclair_, @blankbraintrade, @tradeboicarti16, @smdiehl, @btc_jacksparrow, @ryansadams, @52kskew, @ryansadams, @highyieldharry, @captain_kole1, @mitchsdiary, @autismcapital, @kantrowitz, @autismcapital, @fintechfrank, @wclementeiii, @ryansadams, @tier10k, @elonmusk, @adamscochran, @trustlessstate, @100trillionusd, @tree_of_alpha, @krugermacro, @ballerxbt, @mattomattik, and @vcbrags
Forums: Hacker News and r/Buttcoin
| CNBC: |
Court docs: Binance's Changpeng Zhao to plead guilty to federal charges as part of a $4.3B DOJ settlement; the DOJ suggests the court fine him $50M — - The U.S. Department of Justice has brought criminal charges against Binance and its billionaire founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao.| @cz_binance: |
Changpeng Zhao says he is stepping down as CEO of Binance and that Richard Teng, formerly the Global Head of Regional Markets, has been named CEO — Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do. I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility. This is best for our community, for Binance, and for myself. Binance is no longer a baby. It is...
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Texas' AG, “troubled” by Elon Musk's claims, probes Media Matters, which calls X's suit “frivolous”; X avoids anti-SLAPP statutes by filing in the 5th Circuit — X, formerly Twitter, has followed through with owner Elon Musk's threat to sue the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters.
More: Texas Attorney General, New York Times, The Register, CNBC, The Popehat Report, The Drum, Wired, Reuters, BBC, The Hill, Techdirt, MobileSyrup, IGN, Daily Mail, Business Times, CoinGape, Tech Xplore, Android Headlines, and Gizmodo
Threads: @malwaretech, @reckless1280, @timothyjchambers, @malwaretech, @malwaretech, @jerrybadthings, @carnage4life, @mattnavarra, @originalspin, @noturtlesoup17, @aridrennen, @dogs10gods0, @malwaretech, @datadrivenmd, @matthewcortland, @davmicrot, @chancerydaily, @tristansnell, @matthewcortland, @esqueer_, @rodhilton, @oneunderscore__, @nicholasrfish, @deanobeidallah, @swaffordaustin, and @chrisgeidner
Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, @alexwild@mastodon.online, and @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @kenwhite.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @kenpaxtontx, @erininthemorn, @collinrugg, @joshuaerlich, @jamisonfoser, @scottjshapiro, @chrisgeidner, @wendysiegelman, @advisercounsel, and @rmac18. Forums: r/FreeSpeech
| Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: |
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Threads: @mike.hixenbaugh. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. X: @lindayax, @jason_kint, @nandoodles, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @parismarx, @parkermolloy, @xdaily, @oneunderscore__, @jason, @yashar, @xdaily, @oneunderscore__, @watcherguru, @eriqgardner, @scottbudman, and @ggreenwald
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
More: Fortune, The Information, and 9to5Mac
| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Anthropic debuts Claude 2.1, offering a context window of up to 200K tokens, or ~150K words, a claimed 50%+ increase in accuracy, new API integrations, and more — Claude 2.1 boasts a 150K word context window to parse long documents, 50%+ accuracy gains, early support for tool integration, and more.
More: Anthropic, Engadget, Forbes, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Baseline, Voicebot.ai, The Decoder, and Stack Diary
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos to make a long-awaited push into headphones with a $400 model coming as early as April, is working on a video service and streaming device, more — - Company plans to compete with Bose and Apple with headphones — New Roam speaker, high-end sound bar and video service coming
More: TechHive, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, and Pocket-lint
| The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: a Google exec confirms that Spotify pays no commission when users buy subscriptions via Spotify's payment system and 4% when they pay via Google — Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments …
More: MobileSyrup, TechSpot, Android Police, Hindustan Times, Android Central, and Engadget
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Del Harvey, who led Twitter's trust and safety team for 13 years until 2021, on the X rebrand, her role, Gamergate, Donald Trump, January 6, and more — From Israel vs. Hamas threats to Donald Trump's “wild” posts, Del Harvey helped make the platform's hardest content moderation calls for 13 years.| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify unveils new royalty policies from 2024: tracks must hit 1,000 streams in the previous year and noise recordings must be over two minutes — The company claims the updates will drive an additional $1 billion toward artists, by re-directing the payments that had previously gone to fraudulent streams …
More: Spotify for Artists, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Engadget, Rolling Stone, UPROXX, and Billboard. Forums: r/popheads
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a lawsuit, the US SEC accuses Kraken of commingling customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency, and dealer — The U.S. crypto exchange is the latest targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a series of similar actions being fought in court by other companies.
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X: @jespow, @senlummis, @krakenfx, @jespow, @orlando_btc, @indian_bronson, @coinbureau, @ryansadams, @danprimack, @0xmert_, @twobitidiot, @mayazi, @ryansadams, @cuntycakes123, @belisarius2020, @leomschwartz, @leomschwartz, @conraddit, @jseyff, @cameron, @twobitidiot, @attorneyjeremy1, and @parrotcapital
| Anel Islamovic / Stability AI: |
Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion in research preview, its first foundation model for generative video based on the Stable Diffusion image model — Today, we are releasing Stable Video Diffusion, our first foundation model for generative video based on the image model Stable Diffusion.| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Palantir and Accenture win a £480M NHS contract to overhaul the UK's patient data system; some worry about privacy as patients can't opt out of data sharing — - Platform will help hospitals detect patterns in medical data — Palantir's software managed UK's Covid vaccine rollout| Financial Times: |
Filings: Tether deposited $1B+ with Britannia Financial, founded by a Tory donor later charged by the US with bribery, a rare look at its banking relationships — Funds from the world's largest stablecoin issuer are at the centre of a High Court battle — Tether deposited more than $1bn …
More: Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptonews, crypto.news, and Protos
X: @bitfinexed, @bondhack, and @ttmygh
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Buttcoin
| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
YouTube confirms that “users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing”, after users reported five-second delays on non-Chrome browsers — - Users are reportedly seeing a five-second delay when loading YouTube videos in non-Chrome browsers …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/youtube, r/technology, and r/technews
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Broadcom plans to close its $69B VMware acquisition on November 22, after receiving approval from Chinese regulators, which added new restrictions — Broadcom (AVGO.O) said it planned to close its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing firm VMWare (VMW.N) on Wednesday …
More: SiliconANGLE, Network World, TechStartups, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, and Financial Times
| Washington Post: |
Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP — MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales …
X: @aaschapiro, @gerryshih, @gerryshih, @anujbhuwania, @vakashas, @radishharmers, @mrnarci, @anantguptaag, and @gerryshih
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