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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
In a blog post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Ilya Sutskever won't be a board member, but the company is “discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI” — - Sam Altman is officially back as CEO of the AI startup — Mira Murati will retain her post as chief technology officer
More: OpenAI, Reuters, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Information, Livemint, Fortune, Cryptopolitan, MobileSyrup, and Search Engine Journal
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
OpenAI adds Microsoft as a non-voting observer on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI, as Sam Altman's return as CEO is made official — Sam Altman is officially OpenAI's CEO again. — Just before Thanksgiving, the company said it had reached a deal in principle for him to return, and now it's done.
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Forums: r/technology, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on why he was fired from OpenAI, returning to the company, improving the governance structure, the Q* model, lessons from the saga, and more — “Clearly our governance structure had a problem,” according to Altman. … When OpenAI's board asked Sam Altman to return …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Elon Musk dismisses fear of advertisers leaving X after his controversial posts: “If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising ... go fuck yourself” — - In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Elon Musk calls a Nov. 15 X post of his a mistake that “handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic” for which he's sorry — I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what i meant.
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| Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group, and the US, the Netherlands, and Poland seize the service — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group.| CBC News: |
Google and Canada reach an agreement in their dispute over the country's Online News Act; Google plans to pay news companies around CA$100M per year, or ~$74M — Agreement comes 3 weeks before Online News Act rules come into force — Google and the federal government have reached …
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| Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: |
Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times — Large language models, like ChatGPT, are trained on vast amounts of text data from books, websites, and other sources.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix plans to add Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy to its mobile app, the App Store, and Google Play on December 14, available to its users at no extra charge — The three classic titles in “Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition" will be available Dec. 14 for Netflix customers …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Mozilla says Firefox extensions compatible with Android will be “openly available” to users on December 14, with over 400 coming at launch — Mozilla is opening the floodgates on extensions for Firefox on Android, with hundreds of new add-ons arriving in December.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
SoFi tells its crypto customers to liquidate their accounts or move holdings to Blockchain.com by December 19, as it exits crypto due to regulatory scrutiny — - Customers have to move by Dec. 19 or liquidate their coins … The San Francisco-based company told crypto customers Wednesday …
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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind uses GNoME to find 2.2M crystal structures, over 45x more than all such substances ever found, and plans to make 381K available to scientists — Work shows power of AI to improve real-world technology in fields from renewable energy to advanced computation
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Substack rolls out video creation and editing tools to enable creators to publish video podcasts, create interactive AI-made transcripts, and customize clips — Content creators are launching original shows on Substack as the company introduces a suite of new video tools| Emilia David / The Verge: |
At re:Invent, AWS unveiled Model Evaluation on Bedrock in preview to help companies evaluate AI models before use, with human testers involved in the process — Amazon wants users to evaluate AI models better and encourage more humans to be involved in the process.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts Titan Image Generator, an AI model that creates images from text and adds an invisible watermark by default, in preview for AWS clients on Bedrock — Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so.
More: About Amazon, Amazon Web Services on YouTube, SlashGear, The Verge, PetaPixel, Gizmodo, Baseline, Engadget, and SiliconANGLE. X: @anshelsag
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Adobe's proposal to address EU and UK concerns about its $20B Figma deal may include not tying Figma into Creative Cloud and a divestment of Adobe XD — - Company executives scramble to address EU, UK antitrust fears — Heavy remedies could be required to get worldwide green light| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple licenses Arm's IP at less than 30 cents per device, the lowest rate among Arm's smartphone chip clients; Apple makes up under 5% of Arm's sales — In 2017, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son gathered a group of executives from Arm Holdings, the British chip designer SoftBank had just bought …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
San Jose-based DuploCloud, which provides tools to provision apps to public clouds like AWS, raised a $32M Series B co-led by WestBridge Capital and StepStone — It's only appropriate that, during AWS' biggest week of the year, a cloud-based software-as-a-service startup closed a sizeable funding round.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood launches commission-free stock trading in the UK, letting selected UK investors trade 6K+ US-listed stocks, with general availability in early 2024 — We knew it was coming, but stock-trading platform Robinhood is finally open for business in the U.K. — its first international … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011 — Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters.| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Plex users express alarm after getting a “Week in Review” email that showed what they and their friends watched, part of Plex's opt-out Discover Together tool — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a Me in 2023 feature that assigns users one of 12 themes to describe their listening habits, on mobile and desktop — The listening recap, available Wednesday, takes over social media every year — It's the time of year many people have been anxiously awaiting: Spotify Wrapped season.
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X: @spotify, @abbyemonteil, @mkbhd, @zunguzungu, @jollz, @normalmadeline, @mags_mclaugh, and @sidewalkssss. LinkedIn: Stephen Antonini
| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
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