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Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms — We will appeal the Court's decision but the process requires that we first file proposed remedies. This is a case about contracts.
More: The Mozilla Blog, Google, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and New York Times
Threads: @timothybucksf and @carnage4life
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Android
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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 …
More: OpenAI on YouTube, OpenAI, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Quartz, Engadget, The Verge, Axios, and CNBC
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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 …
More: Analytics India Magazine, Interconnects, New Scientist, Simon Willison's Weblog, Ken Yeung, Fortune, Neowin, The Verge, Mashable, The Decoder, Maginative, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @simonwillison.net, @garymarcus, @julianharris, @zachweinersmith, and @stevenheidel.com
Threads: @moskov, @mergesort, and @crumbler
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LinkedIn: Rama Vasudevan and Sébastien Riopel-Murray
Forums: Hacker News, r/mlscaling, r/MachineLearning, and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
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Bluesky: @justicar.xyz and @quinnypig.com
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO — Israel-based maker of Pegasus program loses five-year-old landmark case. — Messaging giant WhatsApp won a landmark ruling Friday …
More: Reuters, The Record, The Verge, Northern District of California, The Indian Express, CNN, The Guardian, and Bloomberg Law
Threads: @wcathcart and @zuck
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm prevails at trial against Arm's claim that it breached a chip tech license acquired in the $1.4B Nuvia purchase in 2021; Arm plans to seek a retrial — - US jury finds Qualcomm didn't violate terms of agreement — Delaware jurors were unable to agree on Nuvia's alleged breach
More: Reuters, CRN, Wall Street Journal, Wccftech, Qualcomm, Windows Central, Android Central, Computerworld, The Verge, VentureBeat, Barron's Online, Financial Times, Thurrott, XDA Developers, The Information, CNBC, Forbes, and Benzinga
Bluesky: @chernandburn. X: @donnymac, @danielnewmanuv, @markhachman, @mytechmusings, @markosdv87, @anshelsag, @tekstrategist, @mikefeibus, @danielnewmanuv, @mytechmusings, @mytechmusings, @beth_kindig, @mytechmusings, @daniel_rubino, and @dylanonchips. LinkedIn: Anshel Sag. Forums: Hacker News
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data — OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion| 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.
More: The Honest Broker, AV Club, Android Police, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Boing Boing, and Pixel Envy
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Mastodon: @caitp@mstdn.social, @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, @trashpandaqc@mastodon.online, @dante@masto.posting.haus, @paco@infosec.exchange, and @lardmotel@mastodon.sdf.org. Threads: @mossbergwalt
X: @briancrain, @zervel, @elcharlemagne2, @jimmyjacktoth, @big_keez, @diemkay, @rulesdisobeyer, @teakagee, @harpers, @jackantonoff, @iliasalami, @98migrocha, @philosopher70, @mrsimonraymonde, @kennytorrella, @jgrayatua, @larrypareigis, @calsthoughts, @sr_lazarus, @jhv85, @niurn_writes, @roneilr, @glenn_mcdonald, @umaw_, @harpers, @future_of_music, @lawrencedonegan, @sandiptodg, @joeyquits, @1000timesyes, @umaw_, @karonliu, @joeyquits, @alias_eitel, and @phoneswithchrds
LinkedIn: Owen Grover, Jacob Sanders, Cole Davis, and Ethan Holben
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/redscarepod, r/TIdaL, r/truespotify, r/hiphopheads, r/Longreads, r/musicindustry, and r/popheads
| 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| Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Sources: David Sacks' role as WH AI and crypto czar will be limited to an adviser role, overseen by Michael Kratsios, partly because he won't divest from Craft — David Sacks may already be getting a taste of how difficult it can be to get things done in Washington D.C.
More: CoinGape
| 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 …
More: Consumer Financial …, NBC News, The Verge, Zelle, JURIST, Forbes, WTTG-TV, ABA Banking Journal, The Daily Hodl, Orange County Register, Legal Dive, Android Authority, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, CBS News, Yahoo Finance, CNN, New York Times, Engadget, The Information, Barron's Online, Axios, and Payments Dive
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @ryneismean, @nicetopatrick, and @caseynewton. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @chopracfpb, @aarondklein, @amacker, @roguecfpb, @amacker, @yaeloss, @cfpb, @amacker, and @noyesclt
| Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: |
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours — YouTube competitor Rumble (RUM) is in a deal for a $775 million strategic investment from stablecoin giant Tether.
More: Rumble, Inc., Tether, Reuters, The Information, The Block, Decrypt, Wall Street Journal, Coinpedia Fintech News, Fortune, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Reclaim The Net, Bloomberg, Benzinga, The Hollywood Reporter, and Crypto Briefing
Bluesky: @jeffgreco.com. X: @rumblevideo, @theoneandomsy, @autismcapital, @parrotcapital, @chrispavlovski, and @autismcapital
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Google hired 100+ staffers of Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work on its new Android XR OS, raising questions about the future of Magic Leap — Google has hired more than 100 staffers at augmented reality firm Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work …
More: SamMobile
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A study by Waymo and insurer Swiss Re finds Waymo's vehicles were safer than those driven by humans, with a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims and more — Waymo's autonomous vehicles cause less property damage and fewer bodily injuries when they crash than human-driven vehicles …
More: Engadget. Bluesky: @caseynewton. X: @techtekedra, @erikbryn, @waymo, @dmitri_dolgov, @karlpfleger, @jeffdean, @saswat101, and @espricewright
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/OptimistsUnite, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity — Bankers expect global deal volumes to surpass $4 trillion next year, the highest in four years, buoyed … Sponsor Posts
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