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Epic files a CA lawsuit accusing Samsung and Google of colluding to deter users from rival app stores via Samsung's Auto Blocker, and plans to speak to the EU — “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Samsung (005930.KS) …
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Reddit moderators must now submit a request to Reddit staff before changing a subreddit's public/private status, making sitewide mod-led protests much harder — Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able …
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AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 — Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering …
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A massive outage has affected Verizon customers since around 10am ET, according to reports on Downdetector from subscribers across the US — Update 5:38 p.m. ET: Verizon is slowly fixing the ongoing outage. In a new statement, the company says: “Verizon engineers are making progress …
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Oura says it will see annual sales double to roughly $500M this year; sources: it plans to debut a new, thinner fitness ring with better battery life in October — - CEO expects ‘healthy’ growth, but has no imminent IPO plans — New model will have improved battery life and thinner design| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Thoughts on OpenAI's recent fundraise reports and how Apple reportedly backing out, while still using ChatGPT for Apple Intelligence, may lead to awkward deals — Thinking through their numbers and those deal terms... While they published this on Friday - before the subsequent WSJ report … | The Information: |
Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's latest funding round, SoftBank's first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B — SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI's latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FCC announces a $31.5M settlement with T-Mobile over four data breaches, in 2021, 2022, and 2023, that compromised personal info of millions of US customers — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a $31.5 million settlement with T-Mobile over multiple data breaches … | Jeffrey D. Neuburger / National Law Review: |
CA Gov. Newsom signed AB 2013 into law, requiring those behind publicly available generative AI models to post a summary of the datasets used to train them — After several weeks of handwringing about the fate of SB 1047 - the controversial AI safety bill that would have required developers … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
US NHTSA: Cruise must pay a $1.5M fine, submit a corrective action plan, and face enhanced oversight after a 2023 crash with a pedestrian was not fully reported — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday that General Motors' (GM.N) self-driving car unit Cruise … | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pledges to keep investing in blockchain, AI, and biotech, in his first comments since his release from US custody on September 27 — - Zhao was released Friday after serving a four-month sentence — Binance founder in X post lays out plans including investment| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI — Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.
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