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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources say a number of tech executives, including Sam Altman, worry that Elon Musk's new proximity to Trump could supersize rivalries in ways that favor Musk — OpenAI's Sam Altman ranks high on the billionaire's list of enemies; car companies and tech giants scramble for allies in the incoming Trump administration
More: Washington Examiner and Forbes
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
AWS adds new generative AI features to Amazon Connect, which helps companies run their contact centers, including letting Lex-powered assistants use Amazon Q — Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding more artificial intelligence features to its Amazon Connect service, which helps companies run their contact centers more efficiently.
More: TechCrunch and Amazon Web Services, Inc.
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces AWS Security Incident Response to help customers prepare for, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents, including ransomware attacks — Companies often struggle with how to respond to cybersecurity incidents. According to one recent poll, only three … | Financial Times: |
London-based 9fin, a data provider for debt markets, raised a $50M Series B led by Highland Europe, sources say at a ~$500M valuation on current ARR of ~$25M — Founder of London-based 9fin predicts winning research company could generate $1bn a year in revenue| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs logged record monthly net inflows, $6.5B and $1.1B respectively, in November 2024, buoyed by Trump's embrace of crypto — - Crypto market up over $1 trillion since Trump's election win — Traders expect US regulators to pivot to a friendlier stance| Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: |
VC firm Plural's cofounder says Europe, which is yet to create a $1T company, must start supporting experienced founders and start providing “audacious capital” — In 2024, artificial intelligence is consistently front-page news. From Nvidia hitting a trillion-dollar market cap …
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| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: BYD's contract-manufacturing arm, which has 10K+ engineers and ~100K employees dedicated to the Apple's supply chain, now assembles 30%+ of all iPads — BYD has grown into a top iPad assembler and has put around 100,000 people to work for Tim Cook's company
LinkedIn: Christian M. Bucholdt
| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark on Nokia's mobile phone failure, moving from mobile and fixed networks into data centers and defense, fine-tuning 5G, and more — Pekka Lundmark sees opportunities for the Finnish communications company to grow in defense and data centers.
X: @business
| Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg: |
A look at Death Clock, an app that claims to predict the 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: TechCrunch and Cryptopolitan
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| Iris Kim / NBC News: |
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for 200+ endangered languages in North America — Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Meta says it will require advertisers globally to get verified before running financial service ads targeting Australian users, starting in early February 2025 — Exclusive: Businesses to require financial services license number to post Facebook ads, while individuals will need government-issued ID
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