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OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation — A stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit's success. — OpenAI's Board of Directors is evaluating our corporate structure …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations, and the nonprofit will hire staff to pursue charitable activities in health care, education, and science — OpenAI said Friday that in moving toward a new for-profit structure in 2025, the company will create a public benefit corporation …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
OpenAI says its non-profit arm would receive shares in the new public benefit corporation at a valuation determined by independent financial advisors — OpenAI said it will be restructured as a public benefit corporation, and the nonprofit that controls the organization would receive shares in the new company.| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
Trump asks SCOTUS to pause a law that could ban TikTok on January 19, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute — - Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat — TikTok says law infringes rights of 170 million Americans| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Eight free-speech groups, including the EFF, and three members of Congress file briefs with SCOTUS in support of TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law — Groups alleging China's government has engaged in human-rights violations argue U.S. Constitution does not protect TikTok as “an unregistered foreign agent”
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| Bloomberg: |
Montenegro says Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to the US, potentially ending a standoff over competing demands by the US and South Korea — “Most criteria envisaged by the law are in favor of the extradition demands from the institutions of the United States of America …
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| Reuters: |
Experts say hackers compromised several companies' Chrome browser extensions, including Cyberhaven's, in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December — Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December …
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TSMC says it has started mass production at its first factory in Japan, located in Kumamoto, producing 12nm to 28nm chips for use in cars and image sensors — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Friday it has started mass production at its first factory in Japan …
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| Financial Times: |
Meta expects AI-generated characters to “generate and share content” and “over time, exist on our platforms”, similarly to regular accounts — US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement
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| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
The US says it has identified a ninth telecom company impacted by the Salt Typhoon hacks, and the number of individuals directly impacted is “less than 100” — In an update Friday, the White House says nine telecom companies were impacted by the Chinese espionage effort. — Learn more.
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| Mohar Chatterjee / Politico: |
OpenAI is tripling the size of its DC policy team to 12 and beefing up its lobbying as it tries to promote a sweeping plan for cheaper energy to data centers — The AI industry wants Trump's Washington to embrace it as a bulwark against China. OpenAI is trying to lead the pack.
Bluesky: @brianckeegan.com
| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
Video game executives say making cinematic games is getting so expensive and time-consuming that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns — The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
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Forums: r/Games, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepSeek-V3 sometimes identifies itself as ChatGPT when asked which model it is; some speculate that its training datasets may contain text generated by ChatGPT — Earlier this week, DeepSeek, a well-funded Chinese AI lab, released an “open” AI model that beats many rivals on popular benchmarks.
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
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