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| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Sources: for months, OpenAI has held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC about the price and terms of licensing their content — Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.
More: PYMNTS.com, Seeking Alpha, The Verge, and The Register
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft relies on a false belief that copyright can limit the right to read and process data — This week the NY Times somehow broke the story of... well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft. I wonder who tipped them off.
More: The Information, GeekWire, Techaeris, TechSpot, Bloomberg, KnowTechie, WinBuzzer, The Hollywood Reporter, MarketWatch, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Reuters, Gizmodo, Sadagopan's weblog …, Digital Trends, and OSnews
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
LG debuts new LG Gram and Gram Pro laptops with NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050; the Pro includes Intel's AI Boost NPU for on-device AI tasks — If you're in the market for OLED displays and better graphics, take a look at the 2024 LG Gram Pro lineup.
More: LG NEWSROOM, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, SamMobile, MSPoweruser, Phandroid, Liliputing, XDA Developers, Engadget, Gizmochina, and WinBuzzer
| Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: |
Filing: Google agrees to settle a 2020 class-action lawsuit accusing the company of tracking and tying activity in Chrome's incognito mode to users' profiles — 2020 lawsuit accused Google of tracking incognito activity, tying it to users' profiles. — Google has indicated that it is ready …
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| Reuters: |
A US judge sides with the SEC, ruling that Terraform broke the law by not registering four cryptocurrencies, but dismisses the SEC's security-based swap claims — A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on claims that Terraform Labs …
More: United States District Court Southern District of New York, Metaverse Post, Decrypt, Crypto Daily, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, Fortune, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, Watcher Guru, The Crypto Basic, crypto.news, Analytics Insight, Bitcoin Insider, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, Unchained, The Block, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and The Verge
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| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Vitalik Buterin proposes requiring only 8,192 validator signatures per slot, down from 28K per slot, to make Ethereum's proof-of-stake “simpler and lighter” — The Ethereum co-founder suggested reducing validator signatures to lighten the load and make predicting future loads more accurate.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive — There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Microsoft's AI Image Creator, part of Bing and Paint, can generate realistic, violent images; Microsoft says some use the tech “in ways that were not intended” — The AI Image Creator, part of Microsoft's Bing and Windows Paint, makes extremely violent images of Joe Biden, the pope and others.
More: WinBuzzer, Cryptopolitan, and The Decoder
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Sources: India's decision to seek the blocking of the URLs of nine foreign crypto exchanges followed a request from the Indian crypto and Web3 advocacy body — Bharat Web3 Association's (BWA) Chairman wrote the letter to the Indian government on Dec. 16. — Unmute — Register Now
More: Bitcoin Insider
| The Indian Express: |
More: Press Information Bureau, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Metaverse Post, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, MediaNama, Crypto Daily, ZyCrypto, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, Inc42 Media, Tech in Asia, Cryptopolitan, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, The Block, and Business Today
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple stock jumped 54% in 2023 but underperformed tech peers after Apple suffered four straight quarters of declining revenue, its longest such slide since 2001 — - In 2023, Apple suffered its longest revenue slide in 22 years, reporting four straight quarters of declining sales.| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Source: Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones and other military tech, raised $300M in equity and debt at a $2.8B valuation, bringing its Series F to $500M — Defense tech startup Shield AI has expanded its latest funding round with another $300 million in equity and debt …
More: Shield AI
| Reuters: |
A Beijing court fined Alibaba ~$141M in a lawsuit brought by JD.com that alleged Alibaba's Tmall adopted monopolistic practices known as “choosing one from two” — Chinese online retailer JD.com (9618.HK) said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba (9988.HK) …
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Bloomberg
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