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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 …
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| 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 …
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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
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| 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 …
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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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| 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| 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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| 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
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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| 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| 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 Student Lawyer, The Hindu, and Search Engine Roundtable
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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 … Sponsor Posts
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