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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy — Software company will add the latest installment of the hit videogame series to its Game Pass subscription service at launch this fall
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups — The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
More: Bloomberg, PCMag, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Fortune, CNBC, Vox, Fast Company, Windows Central, and Quartz
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Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Source: the Superalignment team was promised 20% of OpenAI's compute resources but requests for a fraction of that were often denied — OpenAI's Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems was promised 20% of the company's compute resources …
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| Jan Leike / @janleike: |
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X — Apple is developing a significantly thinner version of the iPhone that could be released as early as 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a higher energy density battery and a stainless steel battery case that helps Apple comply with EU rules about replaceability — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users — The news from OpenAI this week continues: today, the company announced it has updated its signature large language model (LLM) chatbot ChatGPT …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status — The social network formerly known as Twitter has switched over to X.com. … The social network formerly known as Twitter … | Reuters: |
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit; RDDT is up 12%+ — Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform's content to ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.
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| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default — Slack feeds user content, messages, and uploads to its machine learning models. All users are opted-in by default.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Apple limits the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU, forcing browser makers to have staff in the EU — Rival coders must have EU staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing — Apple's grudging accommodation of European law …
More: MacRumors. X: @openwebadvocacy and @privacymatters
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Matthew Hutson / Wired: |
A look at Maven, a new social network backed by Ev Williams, Sam Altman, and others, where users follow interests and topics instead of accounts — Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.
More: ZDNet. Mastodon: @glinden@sigmoid.social. X: @stephenanfield, @jvquantum, and @jeffclune. LinkedIn: Alicia Gallego Martinez. Forums: Beehaw
| Kiuyan Wong / Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong launches a pilot program enabling digital yuan payments through major Chinese banks, first deployment of China's currency beyond the mainland — - The launch is the first to take place beyond mainland China — China is pushing to grow the yuan's share of global paymentsSponsor Posts
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Zoho People in 2025: A year in review — As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
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