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AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled after a failed coup at OpenAI, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent — Failed coups, as seen at OpenAI, often accelerate the thing that they were trying to prevent — Over the past week, OpenAI's board went through four CEOs in five days.
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Satya Nadella and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott were instrumental to reinstating Sam Altman atop OpenAI, which a source says was the ideal outcome for Microsoft — Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella made a huge bet on the world's hottest AI company. After it nearly blew up on him … | New York Times: |
Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M — Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or may do so, after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
More: Engadget, The Messenger, CoinGape, New York Post, Mashable, PCMag, Gizchina, Reuters, The Hill, Cryptopolitan, and The Information
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally — A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales …
More: Adobe for Business, New York Post, PhoneArena, Bloomberg, The Messenger, The Information, Salesforce, WSAV-TV, and diginomica
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| Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money: |
A look at Binance and CZ's “Bond villain” compliance strategy and how their settlements will allow the US to deflate Binance while minimizing collateral damage — James Bond films have a certain formula to them. It is more interesting when seen from the perspective of the villain.
More: Financial Times and Cryptopolitan
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| Reuters: |
A profile of Binance CEO Richard Teng, who faces the tough task of transforming the company's culture amid spiraling compliance costs and an ongoing SEC lawsuit — Spiralling compliance costs, ongoing legal headaches and a shrinking share of the market: Binance's new chief Richard Teng faces …
More: CoinGape, CryptoPotato, Cryptopolitan, and Coinpedia Fintech News
X: @reuterslegal and @reuterslegal
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those — Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000 — Someone accidentally paid over $3 million in fees to send $2 million in BTC. — A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly made a costly mistake …
More: Blockchain.com, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Web3 is Going Just Great, New.blicio.us, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, The Block, CryptoPotato, The Crypto Basic, and ZyCrypto
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more — The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network … | Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
A look at Replicator, a Pentagon initiative expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is reliable enough to deploy, including on weaponized systems — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones … | Kevin O'Reilly / iFixit News: |
A side-by-side teardown of the Steam Deck OLED and Lenovo Legion Go: both are designed to be repaired by users; Steam Deck OLED scores 9/10 and Legion Go 7/10 — The holiday gaming season has brought us two cutting-edge handheld gaming devices. In one corner, we have the upstart Legion Go … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
China's Sunway unveils new CPUs with a maximum FP64 throughput of 13.8 TFLOPS, which could let China build high-performance supercomputers despite US sanctions — China continues to advance supercomputing technologies despite U.S. sanctions. — Earlier this year, the National Supercomputing Center …
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