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Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies — - Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022 — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation
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Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health — - Charges against Tigran Gambaryan dropped on health grounds — Gambaryan detained in February as Nigeria took aim at Binance| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP — On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe. Zooming into an abortion clinic in the south of the United States … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation — Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Craig Federighi on the launch of Apple Intelligence features like notification summaries in iOS 18.1, Siri, Apple's AI strategy, and more — Our columnist reviews the first wave of AI features coming to iPhones with iOS 18.1, and asks Apple's software chief why so much is still missing
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Google rolls out enhanced scam detection to Google Messages beta users and previews other safety features, like an option to blur images that may contain nudity — The latest round of new features for Google Messages is focused on safety, like “Sensitive Content Warnings” for images that contain nudity.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is working on a new App Store-like app dedicated to games that will integrate with the user's Game Center profile — It's been a month since Apple released iOS 18 to the public, but the company is already working on future software updates. Interestingly, as Apple … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic claims that its new Sonnet 3.5 model scores 49% on SWE-bench Verified, up from 33.4% and “higher than all” public models, and debuts Claude 3.5 Haiku — Today, we're announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Source: in mid-October, TSMC halted shipments to a client after it discovered that chips fabricated for that entity had found their way into Huawei products — - TSMC halted shipments immediately after discovery this month — The company has notified Taipei, Washington as it investigates
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Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps — “I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
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Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated characters with realistic facial expressions using video and voice recordings as inputs — Act-One can create compelling animations using video and voice performances as inputs. It represents a significant step forward …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
China says Tim Cook said Apple would “continue to grow its investments in China” in a meeting with its top tech official, during his second visit in 2024 — - Apple supports millions of jobs, many suppliers in China — China has tightened control over flow of data in recent years| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
In its first annual report, Walmart's PhonePe reports FY 2024 revenue grew 74% YoY to ~$602M, net losses down 28% YoY to ~$237M, and 200M MAUs as of March 2024 — - PhonePe released its first detailed annual report on Monday — The fintech saw its loss shrink 28% to about 20 billion rupees| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Qualcomm partners with Google to help automakers develop AI voice assistants and unveils two new chips to power dashboards and self-driving features — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) on Tuesday said it was teaming up with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google to offer a combination of chips and software …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
NYC-based Tennr, which uses AI-based document parsing and workflow automation to reduce waiting times for patients, raised a $37M Series B led by Lightspeed — The document intelligence-focused healthcare startup Tennr Inc. today announced it has closed on a $37 million funding round.| Nikkei Asia: |
Huawei launches HarmonyOS 5.0 and says 1B+ devices run on HarmonyOS including smartphones, PCs, and cars, and the OS has 15K+ apps, up 10x from earlier in 2024 — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies' Harmony operating system is making inroads overseas, helped by partnerships with players …
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| Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal: |
Joseph Gordon-Levitt criticizes AI, calling Hollywood a “canary in the coal mine” for other industries, and says studios “own the IP and I don't own any of it” — Actor says AI companies use movies and TV to make money without fairly compensating actors; industry should ‘get ahead of that flood’| Michael C. Horowitz / Foreign Affairs: |
How advances in AI and autonomous systems, new tech, and lower costs are shifting global wars towards “precise mass”, or the mass deployment of uncrewed systems — Technology Is Remaking War—and America Must Adapt — At the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022 …
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