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Trump says David Sacks will be the “White House AI and crypto czar” to “work on a legal framework so the crypto industry has the clarity it has been asking for” — - New post will help Trump put imprint on developing industries — Venture capitalist Sacks helped Trump make inroads with tech
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro, a $200/month plan with unlimited access to o1, GPT-4o, and more, plus an o1 version that uses more compute for better responses — OpenAI is creating a new, more expensive tier for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT, and is bringing its “reasoning” model series out of preview with an update.
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| Marius Hobbhahn / Apollo Research: |
An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests — Paper: You can find the detailed paper here. — Transcripts: We provide a list of cherry-picked transcripts here.
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| CNN: |
Romania's top court annuls presidential election, after its security council revealed “hybrid Russian attacks”, like cyberattacks and TikTok influence campaigns — Romania's constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country's 2024 presidential election process …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung releases One UI 7 beta for Galaxy S24, with a huge visual overhaul, a “Now Bar”, a vertically scrolling app drawer, new security and AI tools, and more — Months later than expected, Samsung has officially unveiled its Android 15 update, One UI 7, and the company …
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| Financial Times: |
Industry insiders believe Pat Gelsinger's hasty exit could be a prelude to Intel moving away from manufacturing its chips altogether, in a blow to US ambitions — The Silicon Valley-based company could scale back its semiconductor manufacturing business in a blow to American ambitions
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
A Brazilian judge overturns an injunction that would have forced Apple to enable iOS sideloading in 20 days, calling the regulator's decision “disproportionate” — Following a report earlier today about Apple appealing a Brazilian antitrust regulator's ruling on the App Store …
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| Bill Allison / Bloomberg: |
FEC filing: Elon Musk poured at least $274M into US political groups in 2024, including $238.5M for his America PAC, making him the biggest US political donor — - Musk gave at least $274 million to elect Trump, GOP allies — Trump has tapped Musk to help reshape federal bureaucracy
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft ends production of its $4,500+ Surface Studio 2+, after announcing the all-in-one desktop in October 2022, with seemingly no plans to make a successor — Surface Studio 2+ is now out of stock in most markets, and there are seemingly no plans to make a new one.| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is discussing ditching a clause that cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, so that Microsoft can continue investing — Start-up discusses removing provision to protect powerful technology from being misused for commercial purposes
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta tests letting Threads users see metrics for their individual posts, including views, likes, and replies, as part of changes to Threads' Insights feature — Threads is testing the ability for users to see how well their individual posts performed on the social network.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on changing company culture to attract top engineers, fighting misinformation via open-source intelligence, and more — In what has become a bit of an annual tradition, I sat down with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at AWS re:Invent this week.| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Popular NFT project Pudgy Penguins plans to launch Solana-based token PENGU in 2024, with 23.5% of the 88B tokens reserved for holders of its 8,888 NFTs — Pudgy Penguins is among the most popular NFT collections, and its comic penguins have a big presence on X, YouTube and Instagram. — What to know:| Paul Ziobro / MarketWatch: |
GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij steps down as CEO to focus on his health, transitions to executive chair, and names former New Relic CEO Bill Staples as CEO — Gitlab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij is stepping down as chief executive due to focus on his health, including treatment for cancer.| Reuters: |
The US FCC proposes rules for carriers to submit an annual certification attesting they have a plan to protect against cyberattacks, after the Salt Typhoon hack — U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is proposing that communications service providers …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit — It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous — I.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google releases new Android features, including “expressive” video captions, improvements to the Pixel Screenshots app, a Spotify extension for Gemini, and more — If you're a Pixel user, you can look forward to even more enhancements. — If you're an Android user … | Jennifer McKiernan / BBC: |
When asked if Musk is a threat to democracy, Nick Clegg says Musk can be either an avid Trump supporter or can try to become “a sort of political puppet master” — Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk could become a “political puppet master” in the US, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.
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