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December 13, 2024, 8:05 PM

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Ina Fried / Axios:
In a blog post, OpenAI says “You can't sue your way to AGI”, and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit  —  Musk is also the founder of xAI, an OpenAI rival.  — The current suit, filed in August, is the successor …
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Elon Musk says the US SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after its Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or face numerous charges  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing “numerous counts” against Elon Musk, according to a letter …
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Kristen Altus / Fox Business:
OpenAI confirms that Sam Altman plans to personally donate $1M to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, as opposed to having OpenAI send the gift  —  The tech titan says he's ‘eager to support’ Trump's efforts to lead US into ‘the age of AI’  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining …
Graham Fraser / BBC:
The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely suggested the BBC had published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself  —  The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant's new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United States.
Eric Hal Schwartz / TechRadar:
OpenAI launches Projects, a ChatGPT feature to organize files and chats into folders, now available to Plus, Pro, and Team users and “soon” to free users  —  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. … - This new ChatGPT feature helps organize interactions with the AI chatbot.
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly making $88M+ via fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from April 2017 to March 2023  —  Fourteen North Korean nationals have been indicted for their role in a long-running scam where they stole the identities …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at Anthropic's Clio, an internal AI tool to identify new threats, disrupt coordinated abuse of the company's systems, and generate Claude usage insights  —  PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic's chatbot  —  The company didn't know it yet, but Anthropic had a spam problem.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Broadcom's stock closes up 24.43%+ a day after the company reported Q4 results with strong AI revenue growth, pushing its market cap over $1T for the first time  —  Shares of Broadcom closed up more than 24% Friday, pushing the company's market cap beyond $1 trillion for the first time.
Bloomberg:
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says Klarna's investment in AI let it stop hiring a year ago and its headcount fell 22% to 3,500, mostly due to attrition  —  - Company has promised workers higher salaries in age of AI  — Klarna would like to become a bank in the US one day, CEO says
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Bloomberg:
Liquid, which is building “liquid foundation models” inspired by the architecture of worm brains, raised a $250M Series A led by AMD at a $2.3B valuation  —  The funding round values the startup at more than $2 billion.  —  Liquid AI, a startup designing artificial intelligence systems inspired …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will begin producing AirPods in India for the first time around Q1 2025; a Foxconn unit is already making AirPods on a trial basis in Hyderabad  —  - Partner Foxconn to begin making the product near Hyderabad  — Apple is diversifying its manufacturing network beyond China
Leslie Picker / CNBC:
Private-credit firm Sixth Street commits $4B in capital upfront for Affirm to underwrite four- to six-month installment loans, a source says starting in 2025  —  Two trendy areas in finance - fintech and private credit — are coming together in a new multi-billion dollar joint venture.

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