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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

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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 13% …

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 …

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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

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 …

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Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg:

AI chip startup Groq raised a $640M Series D led by BlackRock at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1B after raising $300M in 2021, and adds an Intel executive as COO — Cisco and Samsung invested in the $640 million deal — Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. has raised $640 million in new funding …

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Bart Meijer / Reuters:

The EU Commission says TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite's “Reward programme” in the EU to comply with the DSA and not launch a similar program — ByteDance's TikTok has agreed to permanently withdraw its TikTok Lite rewards programme from the EU to comply …

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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 …

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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.

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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:

Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised $1B early-stage and $4B late-stage funds, its largest-ever pair of funds, after backing OpenAI in 2023 — The fundraising reflects optimism over artificial intelligence despite the startup sector's broader struggles

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.

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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

More: Philip Elmer‑DeWitt and Werd I/O

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Cade Metz / New York Times:

Elon Musk revives his OpenAI lawsuit, filing a complaint in California to allege that OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman breached OpenAI's founding contract — The Tesla chief executive has renewed claims that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good.

More: Deadline

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:

Chinese state media: a state-owned company launched its first batch of internet satellites to rival Starlink, part of plans for 15K+ low Earth orbit satellites — A Chinese state-owned enterprise on Monday launched the first batch of satellites for a megaconstellation designed …

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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:

Politico names Jonathan Greenberger as its editor-in-chief, effective May 1, succeeding co-founder John Harris; Greenberger joined Politico as EVP in 2024

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Peter Alexander, who worked as NBC News' chief White House correspondent and co-anchor of the Saturday edition of Today show, leaves the network

Max Tani / Semafor:

Sources: Mathias Döpfner met with UK politicians earlier this month, organized by global advisory PR firm FGS, as Axel Springer seeks to acquire the Telegraph

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Bloomberg:

An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on laughing at the memes about him, rebranding Facebook as Meta, learning from the mobile era, Llama, his hobbies, and more

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:

Sources: Chinese generative AI startup Moonshot raised $300M+ at a $3.3B valuation from Tencent, Alibaba, and others, after raising $1B in February 2024

Bloomberg:

Infineon reports Q3 revenue down 9.5% YoY to €3.7B, below €3.79B est., and €2.11B in automotive chip sales, down from €2.13B in Q3 2023; IFX is down 24% in 2024

More: Reuters, Reuters, and Infineon Technologies

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

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Music streaming has exited its high-growth era, as big streaming services pick up fewer new subscribers, causing revenue shortfalls for music labels

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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

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Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:

Despite a weak earnings report, corporations are still buying from Intel, which continues to dominate market share for non-AI computing workloads on servers

More: The Irish Times and TechSpot

Rishav Chatterjee / Reuters:

Mynt, the parent company of Philippines-based e-wallet GCash, more than doubled its valuation to $5B after investments from Ayala and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial

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Dave Lee / Bloomberg:

A look at the flurry of so-called Zoom rallies supporting the campaign to elect Kamala Harris; one Zoom call reportedly attracted 190K people and raised $4M

More: New York Times and Slate

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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

More: Business Insider, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, WinBuzzer, Asia Financial, Proactiveinvestors UK, New York Times, The Decoder, and South China Morning Post

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Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:

Sources: JD.com founder and chair Richard Liu has been quietly leading the company from overseas, primarily in London, despite stepping down as the CEO in 2022

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

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