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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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Tweets: @rstephens, @shivon, @startupljackson, @haldaume3 and @lanceulanoff
| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
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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Tweets: @om, @counternotions, @om, @om, @om, @ross and @srivatsanlaxman
| Rebecca Greenfield / Bloomberg Business: |
Harvard Business School study finds Airbnb hosts accepted guests with stereotypically black names 42% of the time versus 50% for white names — Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts — Renters with names that seemed African American had a harder time booking reservations …
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benedelman.org, VatorNews, The Huffington Post, CNNMoney, BBC, New York Times, HBS Working Knowledge, Quartz, Tech Times, Engadget, Forbes, SFist, bizjournals, Fusion, Fast Company, Business Insider, CBS Boston and The Verge. Tweets: @kashhill
| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
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 … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple advertising iPhone 6s to older iPhone owners through App Store popups — Apple has begun advertising the iPhone 6s to older iPhone users through the App Store, as spotted by @Dirk_Gently on Twitter. If a user browses the App Store, perhaps updating apps, with an iPhone 5s or earlier device … | 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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Tweets: @brianstelter, @nytimesbusiness, @tomgrundy, @nytimesbusiness, @tomgrundy and @bbgbillionaires
See also Mediagazer| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Analytics firm Factual raises $35M to analyze streams of app user location data to build profiles for ads — Startup Factual Knows Your Commute, and Much More... Company, which announced a $35 million funding round, analyzes streaming location data — Researchers earlier this year found …
| 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 … | 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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ESPN, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Reuters, The Next Web, USA Today, Forbes, The Verge and Engadget. Tweets: @mccannsportslaw. See also Mediagazer
| 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? — Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are betting that the junior devs we train today will be the senior engineers of tomorrow.
What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? — Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are betting that the junior devs we train today will be the senior engineers of tomorrow.
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Zoho:
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books — The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
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