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Sources: Apple discussed multiyear $50M+ deals with NBC News, Condé Nast, IAC, and other media organizations to train its generative AI systems on news articles — The company has discussed multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to train its generative A.I. systems on publishers' news articles.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise funding at a $100B+ valuation, and discussed raising between $8B and $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42 for a chip venture — OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above $100 billion …
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| Ken White / The Popehat Report: |
Substack brands itself as avoiding value judgments, but its justification for allowing certain offensive speech is full of value judgments, chosen to make money — Dealing With Nazis, Or Not, Can Be A Brand. Substack's Monetizing It. — Substack has Nazis, because of course it does.
More: New York Times, Business Insider, Tech Policy Press, The Future, Now and Then, Substack, Silicon Republic, New.blicio.us, The Verge, Pixel Envy, and Reason
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Bluesky releases a public web view, allowing users to view posts on the platform without being logged in, and unveils a new logo with a butterfly — Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don't need to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform …
More: Bluesky, TechCrunch, PCMag, Pixel Envy, and Fast Company
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Bluesky: @bsky.app, Bluesky Social, @robpegoraro.com, @archfey.bsky.social, @jay.bsky.team, and @jay.bsky.team
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on open source AI, why AI danger is overhyped, whether AI could produce artistic work that has soul, more — It'll take over the world. It won't subjugate humans. For Meta's chief AI scientist, both things are true. — Do not preach doom to Yann LeCun.
More: TechRadar. Threads: @lucid_voyager and @yannlecun
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| The Block: |
Bulgaria ends criminal proceedings against crypto lender Nexo, finding no evidence of money laundering, tax crimes, computer fraud, or other criminal activity — - The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bulgaria cleared Nexo of any criminal wrongdoing and ended its investigation into the crypto lender.
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A Google Play Services update suggests Google's file-sharing feature Nearby Share could be rebranded to Quick Share, the name Samsung uses for a similar tool — - Nearby Share is Google's peer-to-peer file sharing service available on all Android devices with Google apps.| New York Times: |
Sources: the US DOJ, which has an ongoing four-year-old probe into Apple's alleged anticompetitive behavior, has taken interest in Apple blocking Beeper Mini — Beeper Mini, which offers iPhone messaging on Android phones, has grown fast and its duel with the tech giant has gotten the attention of antitrust regulators.
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Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, who on a trip to Silicon Valley in November aimed to convince a skeptical tech sector that the government was there to help — FTC Chair Lina Khan's vast ambitions to cut back on corporate power could be a huge part of Biden's legacy — if they come to fruition.| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Wearables with powerful AI models would be a much more profound invasion of personal privacy than what we have today with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri — AI is going into pendants and glasses. That could become a profound new invasion of privacy that makes us all more guarded.| Bloomberg: |
Court docs: Google considered changing its Play Store pricing model in 2021 but abandoned the plans over potential $1B-$2B losses for apps and $6B-$9B for games — - ‘Project Everest’ documents released in Epic antitrust suit — Google staff says it ‘defend the status quo for a few months’| Michael Gennaro / Courthouse News Service: |
A US federal judge rules that Twitter breached its contracts with its employees by failing to pay bonuses in 2022, despite promising to pay 50% of the amounts — Current and former Twitter employees said they never received bonuses they were promised during Elon Musk's buyout of the social media platform.Sponsor Posts
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