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| Josh Rubin / Toronto.com: |
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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| 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.
More: The Verge, The Indian Express, PCMag, Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Business Insider, International Business Times, The Tech Basic, ZeroHedge News, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Nairametrics, Silicon UK, Engadget, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, Telecoms Tech News, and NewsBytes
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Forums: r/tech, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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
More: Tech Monitor, PYMNTS.com, The Paypers, Finextra, and Reuters
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