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OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025 — OpenAI announced its new o3 models on Friday. — In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its …
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| ARC Prize: |
o3, trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 87.5% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation in a high-compute configuration; GPT-4o scored 5% in 2024 — OpenAI's new o3 system - trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set - has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the Semi-Private Evaluation set …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Experts say Apple's spyware notifications for victims are a game changer for research; the notifications direct the victims to nonprofit security lab Access Now — Before the elections, the cybersecurity team of U.S. vice president and then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris reached …
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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
The US charges dual Russian and Israeli national Rostislav Panev for allegedly working with the LockBit ransomware group and seeks his extradition from Israel — - Extortion group targeted Boeing, Royal Mail and thousands more — Israeli-Russian national allegedly hired via Telegram chat app
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The US CFPB sues Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, alleging that customers lost $870M+ to fraud since Zelle's launch in 2017 — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday sued the operator of the Zelle payments network and the three U.S. banks …
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| Reuters: |
Italy's data regulator fines OpenAI €15M after its investigation found OpenAI processed users' personal data to train ChatGPT without an adequate legal basis — Italy's data protection agency said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) …
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| Fortune: |
Sam Altman says Elon Musk is “clearly a bully” who is suing OpenAI because the startup is doing really well and calls the lawsuits “a little bit of a sideshow” — - Sam Altman called Elon Musk a “bully” for his continued criticism of and several lawsuits against OpenAI, the organization they cofounded in 2015.
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| The Information: |
Shivakumar Venkataraman, a longtime Google executive who joined OpenAI earlier in 2024 to help lead the development of search and AI for enterprise, has left — Shivakumar Venkataraman, OpenAI's search chief, has departed, seven months after joining the company to help lead the development …
| Liz Pelly / Harper's: |
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts — I first heard about ghost artists in the summer of 2017. At the time, I was new to the music-streaming beat.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life, which debuted in 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has a ~$650M-pear-year economy — Linden Lab has spent $1.3 billion building the Second Life virtual world, which debuted back in 2003 in the first era of the metaverse.
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| Kelsey Butler / Bloomberg: |
Grindr will cover 80% in fertility, surrogacy, and adoption costs, up to $300K, for employees who have been at the company for 18+ months, starting in 2025 — - Few companies cover all costs associated with family building — Dating app will grow headcount ‘moderately’ in 2025, CEO says| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Crypto executives say the EU's MiCA crypto regulation may drain liquidity from markets without achieving the EU's goals, like helping prevent money laundering — - Executives are concerned that removing USDT will sap liquidity — European Union cryptoasset regulations set to take full force … | Bloomberg: |
Sony's shares surged 50%+ from an August 2024 low to hit an all-time high last week, as investors are bullish on 2025 gaming growth; its prior ATH was in 2000 — - Next year ‘one of the greatest’ for video games: Smithers — M&A and good management boost stock's appeal: Janus Henderson| Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
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