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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive attempt to limit the use of the technology; the law still needs to go through a few steps for approval — The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world's first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of artificial intelligence.
More: Ars Technica, Washington Post, European Parliament, Axios, Associated Press, The Verge, Engadget, NBC News, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Guardian, European Commission, CNN, Forbes, DataBreachToday.com, Wired, EnterpriseAI, Politico, Financial Times, and Silicon Canals
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Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Source: the US FTC is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and potentially antitrust law violations but hasn't opened a formal investigation — - The agency hasn't opened a formal probe into Microsoft-OpenAI — Microsoft didn't report deal to FTC due to non-profit status
More: Windows Central, The Information, The Messenger, The Hill, Neowin, Seeking Alpha, InfoRiskToday.com, Wccftech, GamingBolt, PCMag, Fortune, Reuters, and Engadget
| Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA is considering an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and is taking comments until January 3 before making a decision — - CMA seeking views on whether the relationship should be probed — Move is less than two months since watchdog cleared Activision
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app's ability to function — Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users …
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Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How author Steven Johnson, now a Google employee for over a year, helped create NotebookLM, which lets writers extract key themes from their research material — Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer's research material and help them extract and explore the key themes.
More: The Keyword, Android Central, BGR, Gizmodo, ZDNet, and VentureBeat
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: X has held preliminary talks with Amazon to make ads available via Amazon's ad-buying software, and PubMatic, seeking to attract more small advertisers — Social-media platform has had preliminary talks with Amazon to sell ads through e-commerce giant's ad-buying software
More: The Guardian, NPR, Fortune, The Messenger, Forbes, Reuters, TweakTown, and CNN
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Sources: complaints from some senior OpenAI leaders that Sam Altman had been psychologically abusive were a major factor in the board's decision to fire Altman — The senior employees described Altman as psychologically abusive, creating chaos at the artificial-intelligence start-up …
More: Bloomberg, Business Insider, and New York Post
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's Lightspeed LA studio reveals Last Sentinel, an ambitious console game by GTA veteran Steve Martin and part of Tencent's push to create IP from scratch — - Lightspeed LA reveals ‘Last Sentinel’ at The Game Awards — AAA game sets the stage in a futuristic, cyberpunk Tokyo| Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days — Days after a data breach allowed hackers to steal 6.9 million 23andMe users' personal details, the genetic testing company changed …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An untitled countdown timer viewable only on the Threads.net homepage in EU countries suggests that the service will be expanded to EU users on December 14 — Following its rollout in countries like the US and UK this past July, Threads will finally be expanded to users in the European Union on December 14th.
More: JD Supra, The Messenger, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and Thurrott
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is reorganizing its hardware engineering group as Tang Tan, its VP in charge of iPhone and Watch product design, plans to leave in February 2024 — - Tang Tan is set to leave the tech company in February — Departure will spur changes at hardware engineering group
More: Ars Technica, The Messenger, 9to5Mac, Yahoo Finance, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, and MarketWatch
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple is working with China's BYD to move iPad product development to Vietnam, with test production set to begin around mid-February 2024 — China's BYD helps American giant with shift to alternative tech hubs — Vietnam is emerging as an increasingly important production hub …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
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Mastodon: @jaystephens@mastodon.social. X: @business. LinkedIn: Muthukrishnan Ravi and Sankalp Phartiyal
| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Grok's example responses that Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor can feel forced and try-hard — Fine. Let's talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Mobile network companies have backed themselves into a corner by racing to roll out 5G, taking on piles of debt with few returns to show for their investments — Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found … | Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft agrees to convert 77 TCWGlobal contract staff at ZeniMax into unionized employees, as part of negotiations with CWA-affiliated ZeniMax Workers United — - Move expands organized labor's foothold at software giant — As direct employees, staffers will also receive raises, perks
More: MobileSyrup, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, Windows Central, Kotaku, Polygon, and Engadget
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon sues an “international fraud organization” for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from the company through a series of refund scams — - Shoppers took gaming consoles, smartphones, tires and gold — Scammers live in US, five other countries, according to suit| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
How Meta addressed the technical challenges of developing E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features — Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat.
More: SC Media, Techdirt, TechSpot, Help Net Security, Verdict, TechCrunch, Meta, and Ars Technica
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