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August 5, 2024, 6:45 AM
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI developed a watermarking method for detecting text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but its launch has been mired in internal debates  —  Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years
Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg:
Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1  —  - Insured losses estimated between $300 million and $1.5 billion  — The days-long outage took a $5.4 billion toll on Fortune 500
Bloomberg:
CrowdStrike says Delta CEO Ed Bastian failed to respond to an assistance offer from CEO George Kurtz; CrowdStrike hopes Delta will “agree to work cooperatively”  —  The allegation, in a letter Sunday from attorneys for the technology firm, builds upon CrowdStrike's claim last week …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Bitcoin drops to ~$52,500, its lowest level since February 2024 and down nearly 16% since August 3, and ether drops 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet  —  Cryptocurrencies tumbled amid a global market sell-off spurred by recession fears.  —  The price of bitcoin sank more than 11% …
Rachael Levy / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working  —  Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …
Nicholas Carlini:
A Google DeepMind research scientist details some LLM use cases and argues LLMs are not overhyped and should be judged on what they can do, not what they can't  —  Background on me  —  How I use AI  —  I don't think that “AI” models [a]  —  (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous vehicles and some Chinese wireless communications hardware in US cars  —  The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on new Apple Intelligence features, which do not yet live up to the excitement, Apple's design team leadership reshuffle, and Apple's Q3 earnings  —  The first preview of Apple Intelligence for developers shows just how far the company has to go to live up to the hype.
Jason Snell / Six Colors:
Apple Services Q3 revenue topped Mac, iPad, and wearables combined and may soon exceed hardware profits, but its services can't ever have priority over hardware
Jin Yu Young / New York Times:
After failing to win concessions, ~6,500 unionized Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea, who declared an indefinite strike in July, returned to work  —  The indefinite strike, the first in the electronics company's history, comprised only a sliver of its labor force and lasted less than a month.
Zach Dorfman / Politico:
A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc  —  During the early days of Silicon Valley, a tech industry entrepreneur teamed up with the FBI to ship faulty devices to Moscow.

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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and Kara Swisher partner to launch High Stakes, a weekly midterm election podcast produced by Vox Media that will run through mid-November

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
CNN plans to launch a digital subscription in the UK and Canada, for £4.99 and CA$7.99 per month, on October 20, as it seeks $1B in subscription revenue by 2030

Reuters:
Reporters say Indian police detained ~36 journalists from the Indian Express and other outlets for hours while covering youth protests on October 10 and 11

More News

New York Times:
An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some military-tied Chinese organizations have bought restricted chips
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled and tells users to switch to other ad blockers before deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions

Earlier Picks

Josh Noble / Financial Times:
How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation
Eric Platt / Financial Times:
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B
Financial Times:
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes
The Information:
Sources: Nvidia told Microsoft and another large cloud provider that its new Blackwell AI chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws
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