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Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
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Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M — Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) in a Georgia state court after a global outage …
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The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether, a noticeable player in the market for US debt, will extend beyond the digital asset industry — Of all the legal actions taken against cryptocurrency companies by US regulators and prosecutors over the past year … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions — Authorities looking at possible violations of anti-money-laundering and sanctions rules — The federal government …
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Sources: Google is aiming to release its Gemini 2.0 model in December; the model isn't showing the performance gains the Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for — The AI race is heating up just in time for winter. — As my colleagues Kylie Robison and Tom Warren reported … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less than the reported peak production capacity, implying sales are almost in line with Apple's expectations — Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — here's Techmeme's roundup of summaries and regurgitations) …
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A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages — Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1377) — Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1378) — Search by Law Firm Search by Topic Search by Company
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The US Copyright Office denies a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives, and museums lend games via remote access for study — When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes have to drive hours to do it legally — and that won't be changing anytime soon.
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Sources: Chinese hackers targeted data from phones of Trump and JD Vance, via a hack of Verizon systems; staff members of Harris' campaign were also targeted — The targeting of the Republican presidential ticket's phones is part of what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to gather information about American leaders.
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Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal of $100M in 2024 political ad revenue, raising just $15M to date, mainly from GOP and Trump campaigns — Social media platform has raised a fraction of $100mn target and mainly from Trump and Republicans| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba agrees to a $443.5M settlement in a US shareholder lawsuit alleging that Alibaba hurt investors by making misstatements about its exclusivity practices — The e-commerce platform denied allegations that it made misstatements about its antitrust and exclusivity practices| David Morris / Bloomberg: |
Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving it a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement — The Guangzhou-based company's ADS pared initial gains to close at $16.55 on Friday in New York, above the IPO price of $15.50 apiece.
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Filing: Satya Nadella was paid $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M YoY; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues — WATCH NOW — Microsoft gave CEO Satya Nadella a pay raise for the 2024 fiscal year of more than $30 million.
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