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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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
LG debuts new Gram and Gram Pro laptops ahead of CES 2024; the processors in the Pro lineup include Intel's AI Boost NPU hardware 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.
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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.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft readies a Surface Pro 10 and a Surface Laptop 6 for spring 2024, with Intel and ARM variants, improved designs, and next-gen AI PC marketing — Microsoft is making major updates to its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop lines with improved designs, new features, and next-gen silicon.
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| Bloomberg: |
A US judge rejects X's bid to block California's AB 587, which seeks to control toxic social media posts by requiring companies to disclose moderation policies — - Measure seeks to control toxic posts on social media platforms — Company alleged state is trying to censor controversial speech| Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
IVC: Israeli startups raised ~$1.5B in Q4 2023, down 15% QoQ, despite increased foreign investor participation, and ~$7B in all of 2023, vs. nearly $16B in 2022 — Israeli high tech firms raised $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, preliminary data showed on Thursday …
More: Bloomberg, Crowdfund Insider, and PYMNTS.com
| Reuters: |
A Beijing court fined Alibaba ~$141M in a lawsuit brought by JD.com alleging 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) …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod on selling the startup to Match Group, AI's potential, making the app less addictive, expanding to Europe, and more — The founder of Hinge says that capturing as much ‘signal’ as possible from users is the key to successful matches
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Margrethe Vestager says AI Act will “not harm innovation and research, but actually enhance it” as it “creates predictability and legal certainty in the market” — Margrethe Vestager argues landmark legislation will give ‘legal certainty’ to tech groups building AI modelsSponsor Posts
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