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OpenAI, a new nonprofit for AI research, gets $1B commitment from SV leaders including Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, also AWS, Infosys, YC Research — Introducing OpenAI — OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence …
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Q&A with Elon Musk and Sam Altman on the challenges and benefits of guiding AI research with OpenAI — How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Their new organization, OpenAI, wants to pursue the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence—and give the results to the public
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Microsoft backtracks on some OneDrive storage changes after user complaints, lets users opt-in to keep 15GB of free storage, doesn't reinstate unlimited storage — Microsoft apologizes for offending OneDrive fans, but won't restore unlimited storage — Customers of Microsoft's OneDrive … | Andrii Degeler / Ars Technica UK: |
France won't block public Wi-Fi or ban Tor, PM says — Public Wi-Fi networks and Tor won't be blocked or forbidden in France in the near future, even during a state of emergency, despite the country's Ministry of Interior reportedly considering it. — Days after the reports on the proposal surfaced …
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| David Barboza / New York Times: |
Alibaba Buying South China Morning Post, Aiming to Influence Media — The Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, is making an ambitious play to reshape media coverage of its home country, taking aim at what company executives call the “negative” portrayal of China in the Western media.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Attorney in Uber class action case files motion to block Uber from enforcing new driver agreement, alleging it aims to bypass recent arbitration ruling — Uber Class-Action Attorney Wants To Stop Uber From Enforcing New Driver Agreement — Early Friday morning, just two days … | Harry Davies / Guardian: |
Ted Cruz using UK behavioral targeting firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvests psychological profiles of millions of unwitting US Facebook users — Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users — Exclusive: Documents reveal donor-funded US startup embedded … | Bloomberg Business: |
Appeals court judge allows FanDuel, DraftKings to continue to operate in New York state while waiting on another ruling — Daily Fantasy Sites Back in Business in N.Y. After Appeal — DraftKings and FanDuel can continue doing business in New York for now, after an appeals court halted …
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| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
Dan Pfeiffer, former communications director and senior adviser to President Obama, joins GoFundMe as VP of communications and policy — Former White House Adviser Dan Pfeiffer Joins GoFundMe — Former White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer has joined the crowdfunding website GoFundMe … | Windows Blog: |
Microsoft updates Band with music controls, activity reminders, and improved exercise tracking — Stay on top of it all during the holidays and have fun too, with the new Microsoft Band — Today, we are excited to announce several new features exclusively for the new Microsoft Band … | Karl Bode / DSLreports: |
T-Mobile Giving Verizon Users Free Year of Hulu to Switch — T-Mobile continues to dole out Christmas promotions, and this time is taking direct aim at Verizon Wireless. The company today announced that it's giving customers that switch from Verizon Wireless to T-Mobile a free year of Hulu.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google launches 2nd generation of its Cloud SQL service, with up to 10TB per instance — Google is today announcing the beta availability of the second generation of the Google Cloud SQL service, a hosted version of the MySQL database. The second generation offers greater performance … Sponsor Posts
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