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November 30, 2024, 9:05 PM

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit, alleges that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, more  —  Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders …
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Bluesky now requires parody or fan accounts to label themselves as such after a researcher found 44% of its 100 most-followed accounts have a doppelganger  —  Parody and fan accounts will have to clearly label their profiles.  —  Bluesky has updated its impersonation policy to be …
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Ethereum is grappling with uncertainties as its reliance on Layer-2 blockchains grows, leading to lower fee collection, while rivals like Solana gain ground  —  - The blockchain has seen fees slide after technical upgrades  — Criticisms have weighed on Ether, which has underperformed
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Reuters:
Baidu receives a license to test its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong, Baidu's first known permit for autonomous vehicle testing outside mainland China  —  China's Baidu (9888.HK) has received a licence to test autonomous vehicles with its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong …
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 …
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
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
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.

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