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OpenAI suspends access to Sora in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals — A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora. They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.
More: Variety, The Indian Express, and Cointelegraph
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A group published a project on Hugging Face that seemingly granted brief access to OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls duplicity and “art washing” by OpenAI — A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what it's calling duplicity and “art washing” on OpenAI's part.
More: Hugging Face, The Verge, The Economic Times, Silicon Republic, TechRadar, PetaPixel, The Rundown AI, Tom's Guide, Forbes, MSPoweruser, Cybernews.com, The Crypto Times, Fortune, Tech in Asia, Financial Times, PCMag, Gizmodo, Benzinga, Notebookcheck, WinBuzzer, Crypto Briefing, The Decoder, BGR, and Digital Trends
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code — Huawei on Tuesday launched the Mate 70 series of smartphones that can run on the company's latest self-developed operating system … | Paul Triolo / American Affairs Journal: |
A look at the evolution of China's semiconductor industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs become the new focal point of US-China tech competition — Since I last wrote about China's responses to U.S. export controls in these pages, in February 2024, much has changed …
More: GSMArena.com, Huawei Central, TrendForce News, and Gizchina.com
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Bluesky says it is up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a dataset of 1M posts from its API for ML research — A machine learning librarian at Hugging Face just released a dataset composed of one million Bluesky posts … | Felix Ng / Cointelegraph: |
US appeals court finds the OFAC exceeded its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts, as they can't be owned and so are not “property” — A US appeals court ruled the Treasury's OFAC “overstepped” when it sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash's smart contracts.
More: Bloomberg, DL News, Decrypt, Cryptopolitan, Wu Blockchain, CryptoSlate, Crypto Briefing, crypto.news, Axios, The Crypto Times, Cryptonews, Blockhead, Coinpedia Fintech News, CCN.com, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and CoinDesk
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk has given investors, who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition, 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation — Investors hit by losses following billionaire's takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles tailored to users, aiming to personalize its replies, following similar ChatGPT and Gemini features — Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks.
More: Anthropic, Tom's Guide, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, and VentureBeat. Forums: Slashdot
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
An analysis finds over 54% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated; LinkedIn says it doesn't track how many posts are created by AI — A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, indicating the platform's embrace of AI tools has been a success.
More: Forbes. Bluesky: @jschoonmaker.bsky.social, @gohor.se, @wongmjane.com, @caseynewton.bsky.social, @drogen.bsky.social, @craighamilton.bsky.social, @adriancarrasquillo …, and @wigsandgowns.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Aimee Whitcroft
Forums: r/singularity, r/technews, and r/technology
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Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of restricted stock in a new tender offer to SoftBank, in a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son — OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.
More: Wall Street Journal, Coinspeaker, Financial Times, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times, WinBuzzer, Blockonomi, CoinGape, and Reuters. Bluesky: @haydenfield.bsky.social
| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $1.01B, above $982.8M est., a $16.8M loss, compared to a $26.7M profit in Q3 2023, and raises its FY 2025 outlook — Cybersecurity company were dragged down by expected headwinds following one of the worst computer outages ever| IDC: |
IDC expects global smartphone shipments to rise 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, with Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY — Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 6.2% year-over-year in 2024 to 1.24 billion units, according …
More: PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Reuters, Wall Street Pit, 24/7 Wall St., Benzinga, and Bloomberg
X: @nabilapopal and @idc
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An investigation suggests the third suspect behind the hacks of Snowflake clients may be a US Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea — Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake … | Reuters: |
Samsung names Young Hyun Jun as its co-CEO as well as head of its memory chip business and appoints Jinman Han as the company president and foundry unit head — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Wednesday announced new heads of its memory and foundry chip units, as it scrambles to catch up with SK Hynix …
More: Samsung Newsroom, CNBC, KED Global, SammyGuru, Nikkei Asia, and TrendForce News
| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
TikTok plans to block under-18 users from using beauty filters, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13 users from the platform — Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The FCC approves a license for SpaceX and T-Mobile to use Starlink to offer supplemental coverage from space in a bid to extend internet access to remote areas — The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it has approved a license for T-Mobile (TMUS.O) and Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink unit …
More: Bloomberg, FCC, Advanced Television, Android Authority, Benzinga, Android Police, Aviation Week Network, Android Headlines, BGR, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, and PCMag
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| Ashley Rindsberg / Pirate Wires: |
A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A — london's digital markets, competition and consumers act gives regulators the power to stop any acquisition, anywhere, for basically any reason they want
More: TechRepublic. X: @cjhandmer, @douglascarswell, @mavenpolitic, @moving_charlie, @ericrichards22, @hammer_mt, @jefflonsdale, @s8mb, and @piratewires
| Sandy Ong / Rest of World: |
Singapore, which has clear AV guidelines, is deploying self-driving buses and more as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently — The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers over allegations of copyright infringement shows the challenges of defining originality and ownership in content — One Amazon influencer makes a living posting content from her beige home. But after she noticed another account hocking the same minimal aesthetic …
More: Forbes, Pulse 2.0, and Don Juan in Hell
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts — On Monday, X filed an objection in The Onion's bid to buy InfoWars out of bankruptcy. In the objection, Elon Musk's lawyers argued that X has …
More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Cybernews.com, Fortune, The Overspill, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Wrap, Raw Story, Axios, Block Club Chicago, and IJR
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