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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 …
More: OpenAI, TechCrunch, Engadget, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, The Verge, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, Washington Post, Crypto Briefing, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, The Information, TechCrunch, and CNBC
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @brijsingh, @marypcbuk, @laurengoode, and @quinnypig.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Letter: Meta urges California's AG to stop OpenAI's for-profit transition, says Musk is “qualified” to “represent the interests of Californians in this matter” — Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit Mark Zuckerberg's company …
More: The Verge, Livemint, The Information, Reuters, Business Insider, Fox Business, and CryptoSlate
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| 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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out interactive Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, an “experimental feature” that lets users talk to the AI “hosts” of the podcast-like overviews — Google's NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews have been a surprise hit this year …
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| Devan Cole / CNN: |
A US appeals court declines to temporarily block a ban on TikTok; TikTok had indicated it would ask SCOTUS to step in on an emergency basis to block the law — A federal appeals court on Friday declined to temporarily block a ban on TikTok, teeing up a showdown at the Supreme Court over whether … | 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.
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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 …
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| 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.
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| Jakob Rodgers / Mercury News: |
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who accused the company of copyright violations in October, was found dead by suicide on November 26 in San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO — A former OpenAI researcher known for whistleblowing the blockbuster artificial intelligence company facing …
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
During his NeurIPS talk, Ilya Sutskever says “Pre-training as we know it will end”, as “we've achieved peak data and there'll be no more” — OpenAI's cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left start …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Bluesky: @mattr644, @jaredm.dev, @andrewhinton, and @edzitron.com. X: @kevinroose. LinkedIn: Elizabeth Bowling Aldorsson. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ServiceTitan's IPO brought big windfalls for early investors, including returns of $1B+ for Iconiq Growth and $800M+ for Bessemer Venture Partners — - Venture firms are celebrating reprieve from IPO drought — Bessemer also said to reap over $800 million on the bet
More: PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Los Angeles Business Journal, TechCrunch, The Information, and Axios
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| 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: |
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: |
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
More: RetailWire. Bluesky: @ohiohawkeye. Threads: @carnage4life, @pkedrosky, and @parkert. X: @chris_ciaccia
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into BlackRock's acquisition of UK data provider Preqin over concerns that the £2.55B deal could stifle competition in the UK — A decision is due by Feb. 12 on whether the deal warrants an in-depth investigation — U.K. antitrust officials …
More: Silicon Republic and Reuters
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT's three-hour outage on December 11 was caused by a new telemetry service configuration deployed to collect Kubernetes control plane metrics — OpenAI is blaming one of the longest outages in its history on a “new telemetry service” gone awry.
More: OpenAI, PYMNTS.com, and 9to5Mac
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