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The Verge:
A judge grants Google a temporary stay on the Epic ruling while Google appeals, which means Google might not have to change Play Store practices for years  —  Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle.  Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract  —  The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and …
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
01.ai, DeepSeek, and other Chinese companies are reducing costs to create AI models by focusing on smaller training data sets, as they deal with export controls  —  01.ai, Alibaba and ByteDance have cut ‘inference’ costs despite Washington curbs on accessing cutting-edge chips
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future  —  [Editor's Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant's past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.
K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg:
DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it as a Chinese military company, after failing to engage on the issue for over 16 months  —  - US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm  — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller:
Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints  —  The world's biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors' intellectual property …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only  —  Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company's first open-source multimodal language model capable …
Simon Willison's Weblog:
Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini  —  The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Terray Therapeutics, which uses AI to accelerate small-molecule drug development, raised a $120M Series B led by Bedford Ridge Capital and Nvidia's NVentures  —  Terray Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of small-molecule drugs …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Bluesky says it added 500K new users in a day this week after X announced plans for controversial changes, including basically getting rid of the block feature  —  A handful of changes coming to X may be pushing users to its competitor.  Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, says it added 500,000 new users in a day this week.
Patrick Van Oosterom / Bloomberg:
Netherlands unveils new rules requiring an export permit to sell quantum computers, quantum measurement equipment and chipmaking tech, and more outside the EU  —  - Measure taking effect Dec. 1 includes chipmaking processes  — Cabinet took step for national security reasons, minister says

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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Akash Sriram / Reuters:
NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's Full Self-Driving, covering 2.4M vehicles, after four reported crashes in low-visibility situations, including one fatal crash
Reuters:
Sources: Samsung has postponed taking deliveries of ASML chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Taylor, Texas as it has yet to win any major customers
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively “worth zero”, and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market

Earlier Picks

Todd Feathers / Gizmodo:
The US Treasury says its enhanced detection tools, including AI, helped in the prevention and recovery of $4B+ in fraudulent payments in FY 2024, up over 6x YoY
Will Shanklin / Engadget:
The FCC issues new rules that will require all mobile phones sold in the US to be compatible with hearing aids, “after a transition period”
Rich Woods / XDA Developers:
Qualcomm cancels the Snapdragon Dev Kit, which was supposed to ship in June, and will offer refunds, as the product failed to meet its “standards of excellence”
Ina Fried / Axios:
Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as World, unveils a new Orb powered by Nvidia's Jetson chipset, plans to integrate its ID verification into other software, more
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Prabhakar Raghavan will leave his role overseeing Google search and ads products, to be replaced by Nick Fox; Raghavan will become Chief Technologist
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google adds an option for NotebookLM users to customize audio summaries, launches a NotebookLM Business pilot, and says 80K+ organizations use the tool
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
The FBI charges Alabama man Eric Council Jr. with hacking the SEC's X account on January 9, 2024 to post a fake announcement about approving spot bitcoin ETFs
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
On Apple Pay's 10th anniversary, Apple adds support for Klarna in the US and UK and plans to expand installment loan options and add reward redemptions
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