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Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use — A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …
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Bluesky: @mickeydjuric.bsky.social. X: @michellerempel, @michellerempel, @jtemperton, @gerritd, @michellerempel, @michellerempel, and @mickeydjuric. Forums: Slashdot
| Harry Brumpton / Bloomberg: |
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia says generative AI tools have helped it lower frauds by 30% and reduce call center customer wait times by 40% in 2024 — - Customer scam losses at Commonwealth Bank cut in half — CEO Matt Comyn says many more AI use cases in development
Bluesky: @msbrumfield.bsky.social, @radiobeartime.com, @mfulk.bsky.social, and @benjialpha.bsky.social. X: @business
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Meta plans to build a fiber-optic subsea cable that is 40,000+ kilometers long and extends around the world, a project that could cost more than $10B — Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is the second-biggest driver of internet usage globally.
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
A look at the DOJ's proposed remedies in the Google Search antitrust case, and why forcing a sale of Chrome might not be biggest threat to Google's power — Selling Chrome might not be the most painful part of the DOJ's antitrust demands for Google.
More: The Hindu, The Student Lawyer, and Search Engine Roundtable
| David Marcus / @davidmarcus: |
Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill” — How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan's pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a
More: Cryptopolitan, Cryptonews, CoinGape, DL News, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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X: @ronwhammond, @bryankerr, @jeffjohnroberts, @rohangrey, @billyez2, @chrispainteryup, @discobanker, @anshublog, @tyler, @elonmusk, @erikvoorhees, @rezendi, @tommygriffith, @davidzmorris, @aditishekar, @balajis, @jaimassari, @trace_cohen, @jbrukh, @kevinweil, @lukeyoungblood, @beardmars, @gdanezis, @beller, @ajitpai, @louisrouanet, @terryangelos, @tobi, @matthewstoller, @hellosvapnil, @brian_armstrong, @regulatorynerd, @stevesi, @caitlinlong_, @nic__carter, and @njess
| Paul Kunert / The Register: |
Google, which joined the Open Cloud Coalition, denies its offer of €100M+ in incentives to CISPE was linked to CISPE's antitrust complaint against Microsoft — El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive| Wall Street Journal: |
How Tony Sayegh, head of public affairs at a major TikTok investor and an official in the first Trump admin, led the effort to win Trump's support for TikTok — Tony Sayegh led the effort to win Trump's support for the popular app with ties to China — When the Biden administration … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Black Friday sales hit $74.4B globally, up 5% YoY, and $17.5B in the US, up 7% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $10.8B, up 10.2% YoY — The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $33.6 billion spent globally online on the day — looks like it continued into Black Friday, with a bang.
More: Reuters, WWD, Digital Commerce 360, and Bloomberg
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Report: Russia arrested notorious cybercriminal Mikhail Matveev for developing malware and running hacking groups; US DOJ filed charges against him in 2023 — Russian citizen and notorious ransomware affiliate Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (also known as Wazawaka, Uhodiransomwar, m1x … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with cognitive scientist Gary Marcus on technical limitations and moral inadequacies of LLMs, constructing a regulatory framework for AI, and more — The U.S. should create an artificial intelligence agency led by a cabinet-level position, Marcus argues| Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: |
How Amazon Haul, a storefront for fashion, home, and other items at “ultralow prices”, reflects the “haul” shopping phenomenon popularized by YouTube and TikTok — It is the shopping phenomenon of our times, and now it's an Amazon store.
More: Fast Company, Bloomberg, MakeUseOf, and Althouse
| Shannon Connellan / Mashable: |
Bluesky replies now default to appear by “hotness”, which weights liked replies that are more recent more heavily; some say this rewards clout farming like X — Not everyone is happy about it being the default. — Bluesky replies will now default to appear by “hotness” …
More: WinBuzzer, Neowin, and Pixel Envy
Mastodon: @WeirdWriter@caneandable …. Bluesky: @chirag.bsky.social, @toastcrust.bsky.social, @gord.games, @geleff.io, @hypervisible.bsky.social, @toddindeed.bsky.social, @romitmehta.com, @cuthrell.com, @stefan.stefanbohacek …, @annmlipton.bsky.social, @scalzi.com, @tomwarren.co.uk, and @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Sources: European regulators rebuked Wise in 2022 after finding it lacked proof of address for hundreds of thousands of customers, forcing it into remediation — Regulatory review in 2022 found fintech lacked proof of address for hundreds of thousands of customers
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