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Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the chat function, AI-powered age estimation via face scans, accusations of compromising child safety for growth, and more — This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform.
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Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk and @stephentotilo. Threads: @karissabe. Mastodon: @caseynewton@mastodon.social
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform — Google has confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack.| Bloomberg: |
Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout — Meta Platforms Inc. is venturing into the complex world of electricity trading, betting it can accelerate the construction of new US power plants …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached — American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.
More: PCMag, TechCrunch, Breached Company, and The Cyber Express
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances — US officials are having early discussions on whether to let Nvidia Corp. sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand — Google 's AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its compute capacity every six months in order to meet demand for artificial intelligence services.
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| Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft delayed reporting its Q2 results after auditors found it improperly booked sales from a partnership as revenue, forcing it to restate its accounts — Ubisoft Entertainment SA said it will use money from a Tencent Holdings Ltd. investment to pay off debt after the video-game publisher breached …
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF — Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized, AI-powered briefing of information relevant to their daily lives.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage — Investigators have sought to assess whether Bitmain Technologies' products pose risks of espionage or sabotage, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| The Information: |
Internal memo: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees last month that Google's recent progress in AI could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google's recent progress in artificial intelligence could …
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| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Google says ads that some users are seeing in AI Mode are part of a test; the ads have a “sponsored” label and appear at the bottom of the page — Google has started rolling out ads in AI mode, which is the company's “answer engine,” not a search engine.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances and aim to provide a proof-of-concept by 2030, potentially paving the way for quantum internet — IBM (IBM.N) and Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) on Thursday said they plan to link quantum computers over long distances …
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue — For 15 years, Goldman Sachs' private tech conference in Las Vegas has been the event for taking the pulse of startup dealmaking.| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year — A new trend has quickly emerged for AI startups that want to stand out from the rest: brag about revenue. — Take Sierra, Bret Taylor …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia — AMD's Lisa Su has a new chip and a new goal: to grab a big chunk of an AI business that could reach $1 trillion a year
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting” — Elon Musk is as smart as da Vinci, fitter than LeBron James, and really good at drinking piss.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing — Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is on the clock. — The federal judge, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia … | Katherine Davis / Axios: |
Sorcero, which makes AI agents for pharmaceutical companies to market new medications, raised a $42.5M Series B, bringing its total funding to $59M — Sorcero, an agentic AI platform for the pharmaceutical industry, raised a $42.5 million Series B, CEO Dipanwita Das tells Axios Pro.
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| Renju Jose / Reuters: |
Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban; Twitch plans to deactivate accounts for 16-and-under users from Jan. 9 and bar new underage users from Dec. 10 — Australia's internet watchdog on Friday said it would include Amazon.com-owned (AMZN.O) live streaming service Twitch … | Heekyong Yang / Reuters: |
Samsung names mobile chief TM Roh as co-CEO and DX division head; Roh was serving as consumer business acting head since April after co-CEO Han Jong-Hee's death — - TM Roh named co-CEO, heads device experience division — Roh previously served as acting head of consumer business since April
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December — Airbnb Inc. Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh plans to step aside from his role in December, the company said in an exchange filing on Friday. — Balogh, who joined … Sponsor Posts
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