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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's Sora announcement sparks awe and horror, as the startup continues to be frustratingly secretive about the data used to train the text-to-video model — Sam Altman is being secretive in all the wrong places as he barrels toward superintelligent AI. — Every new OpenAI announcement sparks some measure of awe and terror.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google releases Android 15's first developer preview, with updates related to Android's Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, the camera experience, and more — Our first official glimpse of Android 15 is here. It includes a lot of under-the-hood tweaks to strengthen communication between hardware …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI has completed a deal that values the company at $80B or more; OpenAI would sell existing shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital — The A.I. start-up's valuation tripled in less than 10 months. — OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco artificial … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman is working to get US approval for his chip project, as involving the UAE and others risks raising national security and antitrust concerns — - Middle East investors, factories may prompt security concerns — Potential new company could trigger antitrust review| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors — - SoftBank has $41 billion cash pile and finances helped by Arm — Undertaking code-named Izanagi after Japanese god of creation| Susan Lazaruk / Vancouver Sun: |
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada should give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airlines' chatbot — A B.C. man booked an Air Canada flight to Toronto for his grandmother's funeral using the website's chatbot …
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim — The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe's, in a legal filing while fighting a case.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
PitchBook: VC investment in crypto rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first rise since Q1 2022; Q4 2023 saw 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020 — - PitchBook said in a fourth-quarter update that the level of investment for crypto-related companies in the fourth quarter totaled $1.9 billion …
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| Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: |
The DSA starts applying to all online intermediaries in the EU, except for businesses with under €10M in annual revenue or fewer than 50 staff, from February 17 — The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc …
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Epic plans to “start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon” and launch the store in 2024, thanks to the DMA, after Apple approved its developer account — Three years after Apple kicked Epic Games off the App Store for breaking terms of business, it has allowed the firm …
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| Washington Post: |
Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to influence US elections are flourishing on X, which no longer attends biweekly info-sharing meetings with social platforms — X hasn't sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies
More: Ars Technica. Threads: @renee.diresta. Mastodon: @w7voa@journa.host and @aaronjschaffer@mastodon …. X: @thedragonfeeder. LinkedIn: Yael Eisenstat. Forums: r/Twitter
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature, which calls a business on the user's behalf and holds until a human becomes available — Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature where it will “help you place the call …
More: The Verge, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Engadget, Mashable, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, ZDNet, and Tom's Guide
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, and more — The platform will feature deeper analytics and lower fees than the digital bank's app.
More: Cryptonews, Blockworks, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Milk Road, and Bitcoin Insider. Forums: r/ethtrader
| RT Watson / The Block: |
Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof's NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside — - Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs announced it has acquired Proof, which created the Moonbirds non-fungible token collection.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10B in subsidies to Intel, in what would be the largest award yet under the CHIPS Act — - Money to come from $39 billion grant and $75 billion loan pool — Award to be announced in the coming weeks, people familiar say
More: Reuters and Channel NewsAsia
| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content — - Social media firm agrees $60 million deal with AI company — Reddit advised to seek at least $5 billion IPO valuation| Associated Press: |
Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok, X, and 11 other companies sign a voluntary accord to fight deepfakes that deliberately trick voters — Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta is matching existing fact checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, and says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads — Threads, Meta's Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn't mean …
Threads: @vintagemillennial81, @renee.diresta, @culturecrave, @mattnavarra, @mattnavarra, and @cformiles
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse adds texting to group voice chats, letting users train a custom voice and send asynchronous texts that the app will read out in the sender's voice — Clubhouse, the once-popular live audio app, announced today that users can now text their friends and they'll hear those texts in the sender's custom voice.Sponsor Posts
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