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December 3, 2024, 4:45 AM

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Intel's board gave CEO Pat Gelsinger the option to retire or be removed after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn the company around  —  - Gelsinger was given the option to retire or be removed  — Company's CFO and product CEO will serve as interim leaders
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
ChatGPT refuses to state some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling bug; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue  —  Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches by “After date,” “Before date,” and “From profile”  —  Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches …
More: TechCrunch, Neowin, and MobileSyrup
Bluesky: @mickThreads: @threads, @chris, @alfredo_liberal, and @matthewfacciani
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in nearly $50M in earnings  —  - RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup acquired by Nike in 2021, is shutting down, according to an announcement on Monday.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, gives an “early preview” of its first project, an AI system that can generate game-like, 3D scenes from an image  —  World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled its first project: an AI system …
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin shuts down and plans to move accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March 2025, after a $300M+ hack in May 2024  —  DMM Bitcoin said on Monday that it planned to transfer all customer accounts and company assets to another crypto firm called SBI VC Trade …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
An email and documents show Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't subject to Google's general TOS, but an “adjusted” TOS drafted by Google and Israel  —  A previously undisclosed email and new documents show the Project Nimbus deal isn't covered by Google's general terms of service.

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