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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 …
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 …
Reuters:
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation  —  The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
MicroStrategy, Palantir, and Axon will join the Nasdaq 100 index, effective before the market open on December 23; Super Micro will be removed from the index  —  MicroStrategy, the preferred high beta play on the price of bitcoin, will join the Nasdaq 100 index, a move that could further increase demand …
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Justin Sun's BiT Global, which became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product  —  - Justin Sun's BiT Global is suing Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product.  — In August, BitGo named BiT Global …
Jacky Wong / Wall Street Journal:
Japanese chipmaker Kioxia's dramatic valuation drop from $18B in 2018 to $5.1B in its upcoming IPO is due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals  —  Kioxia is going for a discount due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals  —  Japan's last blockbuster initial public offering …
Yuji Nitta / Nikkei Asia:
Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries  —  HANOI — Southeast Asian nations are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries.

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the DOJ is probing whether the NFL uses anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers; regulators and others have raised concerns about streaming deals

Tom Jones / Poynter:
MS NOW announces financial backing for the Pulitzer Center, and collaborations with The Marshall Project on ICE and States Newsroom to feature state reporting

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks rebrands as AMC Global Media, filing new articles of incorporation in Nevada; CEO Kristin Dolan says streaming is its top domestic revenue source

More News

Louise Matsakis / Wired:
Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian, who was allegedly dismissed for “serious misconduct”, is a co-author of one of two papers chosen for the NeurIPS Best Paper Award
More: The Verge.  Bluesky: @timnitgebru and @jasonkoebler
X: @lmatsakis and @lmatsakis
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Tinder warns of declining to flat direct revenue through 2026, below estimates, and says it plans to prioritize improving its user experience over monetization
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Cantor Fitzgerald settles US SEC charges for $6.75M over disclosures before its SPACs merged with smart glass maker View and geospatial data company Satellogic
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at 2024's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect
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
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