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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's for-profit transition, alleging that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, and more — Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders …
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI says it plans to build data centers in parts of the US Midwest and Southwest; sources: OpenAI is spending $5B+ a year and is “not close to breaking even” — ChatGPT-maker aims for big boost from new AI products, Apple partnership and infrastructure investment
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| 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.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Financial Times: |
Some UK policymakers worry about Elon Musk complicating UK-US ties, as his diatribes against the Labour government extend well beyond tech and free speech — A London-based VC has connected Boris Johnson and the Tesla chief, who Tony Blair has praised as ‘an extraordinary innovator’
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| 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
More: Unchained, Cryptopolitan, The Block, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
A profile of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, who made a highly risky bet to acquire debt-ridden Hynix in 2012 to form SK Hynix, which is now valued at ~$80B — The race to win the AI chip market is akin to Squid Game, quipped an industry insider during a lunch meeting recently. It's intense.
X: @business
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, PhoneArena, TechRadar, Boston Herald, Mashable, Neowin, and Digital Trends
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| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark on Nokia's failure in mobile phones, moving from mobile and fixed networks into data centers and defense, 5G, and more — Pekka Lundmark sees opportunities for the Finnish communications company to grow in defense and data centers.
X: @business
| Iris Kim / NBC News: |
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages — Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.| Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: |
A look at Death Clock, an app that claims to predict a user's likely date of death by using an AI model trained on a dataset of 1,200+ life expectancy studies — - Model trained on longevity studies is popular on fitness app — Technology may have wider applications in economics, finance
More: Cryptopolitan. Bluesky: @tcarmody. Threads: @pkedrosky. X: @tinssoldier, @catcheronthesly, and @atanzi
| Jack Coleman / TheGamer: |
Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has now raised $750M+ in crowdfunding, and its single-player spin-off Squadron 42 won't be out until 2026 — - Star Citizen has eclipsed $750 million in crowdfunding. — There is no release date in sight for Star Citizen.
More: Roberts Space Industries, Insider Gaming, PCGamesN, MMORPG.com, Game Rant, GamesIndustry.biz, Gameranx, TechRaptor, 80 Level, and TheGamer. Bluesky: @jcraig.me
| Willie D. Jones / IEEE Spectrum: |
A look at AI-enabled dashcam tech being developed by Samsara, Motive, Nauto, and others to detect fatigue and deliver real-time audio alerts to drowsy drivers — Innovative tech detects driver fatigue and signals them to take a break — Willie Jones covers transportation for IEEE Spectrum … Sponsor Posts
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