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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board” — The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …
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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati becomes the company's interim CEO, and co-founder Greg Brockman steps down as the board's chairman but will remain OpenAI's president — “Mr. Altman's departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and reports that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content — - The left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters for America published a report Thursday that highlighted Apple, IBM …
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| Nicholas Vinocur / Politico: |
Internal note: the European Commission plans to “temporarily suspend” X advertising over widespread disinformation concerns and to avoid “reputational damage” — Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Internal memo: Amazon plans to cut “several hundred roles” in its Alexa division as part of a broader shift in business priorities and a focus on generative AI — Amazon will eliminate several hundred roles in its Alexa division as part of a broader shift in priorities and a focus …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Microsoft blocks the term “Disney” from Bing Image Creator over copyright concerns raised by a viral trend where users created Disney film posters of their pets — Film company's logo was visible in mock-ups of movie illustrations featuring users' pets
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
A California jury convicts former VC Mike Rothenberg for defrauding investors on 21 counts of bank fraud, false statements, money laundering, and wire fraud — Mike Rothenberg, a former VC known for hosting lavish parties, was convicted today on 21 counts for defrauding investors
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| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
The EU Court of Justice says Apple filed a legal case contesting the European Commission's decisions under the DMA; Meta and TikTok separately filed cases too — Apple (AAPL.O) has filed a legal case contesting decisions taken by the European Commission under its recently-introduced Digital Markets Act …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to show green bubbles for RCS messages and keep iMessages blue to denote what the company considers is the most secure way for iPhone users to text — Earlier today, Apple announced its plans to bring RCS support to the iPhone in 2024. Since I published my story on the news this morning …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Coinbase updates Coinbase Commerce with its new open-source Onchain Payment Protocol, which offers instant settlement, low fees, and broad asset support — - Coinbase has built an open source “Onchain Payment Protocol” to improve its Commerce product. — The protocol currently supports Ethereum, Polygon and Base ecosystems.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord plans to shut down its ChatGPT-powered experimental chatbot Clyde on December 1; Discord started testing Clyde with its users in March 2023 — Discord is shutting down Clyde, its experimental AI chatbot. In a support note, Discord says the chatbot will be “deactivated” … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta unveils new AI tools to edit images and generate videos from text instructions, based on Emu, its model for image generation announced in September 2023 — Artificial intelligence researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. said today they have made significant advances in AI-powered image and video generation.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and the CISA release an advisory detailing the tactics used by Scattered Spider, a hacker group that now collaborates with the BlackCat ransomware group — The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an advisory …
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
US v. Google: the DOJ ended the trial's evidentiary phase on November 16, arguing that Google broke antitrust law; closing arguments are set for early May 2024 — The U.S. government hammered away at its main arguments against Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Thursday, wrapping up the evidentiary phase … | Giulia Petroni / Wall Street Journal: |
Italy's competition watchdog opens an investigation into whether Meta has failed to provide adequate information on how to mark branded content on Instagram — Italy's competition watchdog has opened an investigation into whether Meta Platforms has failed to provide adequate information …
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| Elias Leight / Billboard: |
Email: Apple added Apple Music fraud protections, like “financial adjustments” for repeat fraudsters, in 2022, resulting in a 30% drop in streaming manipulation — While Spotify is just now moving towards a penalty system, Apple quietly started making “financial adjustments” for repeat fraudsters more than a year ago.
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Current and former Snap staff say Evan Spiegel has spoken admiringly of some of Musk's ideas for X, as he promotes “hardcore” work to lift Snap from an ad slump — Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has lately taken to walking around his company's Santa Monica, Calif. … | Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
Game developer Scopely, citing data.ai, says Monopoly Go reached $1B+ in revenue in seven months, faster than any other casual game in mobile game history — Game company Scopely has announced that its mobile game Monopoly Go has now raked in more than $1 billion in revenue, becoming 2023's …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
MeridianLink confirms a cyberattack after a ransomware gang claimed to have reported the financial software company to the US SEC for not disclosing the breach — Financial software company MeridianLink confirmed that it is dealing with a cyberattack after the hackers behind …
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