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Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit — Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
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| The Hill: |
In response to Elon Musk's $97.4B OpenAI bid, Sam Altman says on X “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”; Musk replies “swindler” — OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman appeared to shut down a reported offer from an investor group led … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sam Altman says “OpenAI is not for sale” and “OpenAI's mission is not for sale”, especially to “a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market” — - “OpenAI is not for sale. … - Altman said the board has not determined a valuation for OpenAI's operations yet … | CNBC: |
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Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship” — U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Europeans on Tuesday that what he called their excessive regulation … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Paris AI summit takeaways: Europe has regulation regrets, AI doomsayers have lost ground, and policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive — At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.
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| Liv McMahon / BBC: |
The US and the UK refuse to join France, China, India, and 57 other countries in signing the international agreement in Paris promoting “transparent”, “safe” AI — The UK and US have not signed an international agreement on artificial intelligence (AI) at a global summit in Paris.
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AI Action Summit in Paris: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU plans to mobilize €200B to invest in AI to catch the US and China — The announcement underscores efforts from the EU to position itself as a key player in the AI race
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says it removed Calendar's Pride Month, Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, and more events in mid-2024 for not being “scalable or sustainable” — Google says it switched to only showing default entries for public holidays and national observances last year.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names — Google has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico for US users.
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| Gloria Li / Financial Times: |
Chinese EV maker BYD unveils a “God's Eye” self-driving system and aims to install it on its entire lineup, including its ~$9,600 Seagull hatchback — Tesla rival will equip hatchback on sale for less than $10,000 with features usually found only on upscale vehicles| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's Supercell reports 2024 revenue up 77% YoY to almost $3B from its six titles and EBITDA up ~77% to $900M+; Squad Busters made $100M+ in revenue — Supercell Oy, the Finnish video-game company behind such hits as Brawl Stars and Clash of Clans, is delivering big gains …
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| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture — Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its AI research assistant tier with higher usage limits, to Google One AI Premium subscribers, and debuts a 50% student discount — Google has expanded NotebookLM Plus, a paid version of its AI-based note-taking and research assistant, to individual users subscribed …
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| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
How TSMC and Taiwan are rushing to avoid Trump's tariffs, as TSMC's board meets in Arizona for the first time; Trump has said TSMC “stole” the US' chip business — US president's complaints threaten top chipmaker's business model and east Asian country's security
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| Rishi Kant / Reuters: |
Boston-based QuEra Computing, which is developing neutral-atom quantum computing to help scale systems, raised $230M+ from Google's Quantum AI unit and others — QuEra Computing said on Tuesday the neutral-atom quantum firm has completed a funding round in excess of $230 million … | Wall Street Journal: |
After the UK ordered Apple to build an encryption backdoor, Congress must enact a law prohibiting US tech companies from providing such backdoors to any country — Beijing would quickly exploit the British order to allow access to encrypted data. — The U.K. has ordered Apple to build … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV” — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan released his annual letter Tuesday morning, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US, the UK, and Australia sanction Russia-based bulletproof hosting provider Zservers and two Russian nationals for supplying the LockBit ransomware gang — The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom have sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) …
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| Reuters: |
SMIC reports Q4 profit down 38% YoY to $107.6M, below $193.5 est., revenue up 32% YoY to $2.2B, above $2.18B est., and $7.33B capex in 2024, vs. $4.5B in 2021 — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (0981.HK), China's largest contract chipmaker, reported a 38.4% year-on-year fall in fourth-quarter profit.
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