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| 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, CNBC, The Verge, Axios, Gizmodo, Quartz, Engadget, Digital Trends, and Ars Technica
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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 …
More: New Scientist, TechRadar, Ken Yeung, Mashable, The Verge, WinBuzzer, Fortune, Interconnects, The Decoder, Neowin, Maginative, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Threads: @mergesort, @moskov, and @crumbler
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LinkedIn: Rama Vasudevan and Sébastien Riopel-Murray
Forums: Hacker News, r/mlscaling, r/singularity, and r/MachineLearning
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says safety researchers can sign up for o3 preview today and that it decided not to name the new model o2 “out of respect” for the UK telecom company — The new AI system, called o3, is expected to launch early next year. — OpenAI is preparing to launch … | Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: |
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, 9to5Google, New York Times, New York Times, Google, and Business Insider
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| 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: The Record, CNN, The Guardian, Reuters, The Verge, Northern District of California, and Bloomberg Law
Threads: @wcathcart and @zuck
| 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
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| 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| 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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| 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: TechRadar, Boing Boing, AV Club, Android Police, Tom's Guide, The Honest Broker, 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
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LinkedIn: Cole Davis, Ethan Holben, Owen Grover, and Jacob Sanders
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/redscarepod, r/TIdaL, r/truespotify, r/hiphopheads, r/Longreads, r/musicindustry, r/popheads, and r/Jazz
| 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: Decrypt, Tether, Bloomberg, Rumble, Inc., Reclaim The Net, The Information, Cointelegraph, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Block, Reuters, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, and The Hollywood Reporter
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
| 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.| 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
More: US Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, CyberScoop, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Hackread, Cryptopolitan, Nextgov/FCW, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Verge, and The Record. LinkedIn: Matt Suiche
| 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: The Robot Report, Engadget, and Waymo
Bluesky: @caseynewton. X: @techtekedra, @erikbryn, @waymo, @dmitri_dolgov, @karlpfleger, @jeffdean, @saswat101, and @espricewright
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/OptimistsUnite, and Slashdot
| TrendForce: |
Global shipments of VR and MR headsets are expected to reach ~9.6M units in 2024, up 8.8% YoY; Meta remains the global leader with a 73% market share — TrendForce's latest report estimates that global shipments of VR and MR headsets are expected to reach approximately 9.6 million units in 2024, representing a YoY increase of 8.8%.
More: KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Wccftech, Display Daily, Seeking Alpha, IDC, iClarified, Neowin, 9to5Mac, and Forbes
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel shortlists buyout firms for the next round of bidding for its Altera unit, including Francisco Partners, Silver Lake, and Lattice Semiconductor — - Company asks suitors to submit formalized bids by late January — Intel is without a permanent CEO after Pat Gelsinger oustedSponsor Posts
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