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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
1,200+ Google employees and 1,500+ academic, industry, and civil supporters have signed a petition condemning the termination of AI scientist Timnit Gebru — More than 1,500 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A summary of the draft paper co-authored by Timnit Gebru, which outlined the main risks of large language AI models and provided suggestions for future research — The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business. — hide
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches a display module replacement program for iPhone 11 devices manufactured between November 2019 and May 2020 experiencing touch issues — Apple today launched a new display replacement program for iPhone 11 devices to address a problem that cases a “small percentage” of iPhone 11 displays to stop responding to touch.
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Inside WarnerMedia's transition to streaming: current and former execs say it was marred by rushed decision making, culture clashes, HBO brand confusion, more — - CNBC spoke with more than a dozen former and current WarnerMedia executives to gauge how John Stankey and Jason Kilar are progressing with HBO Max.
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US will not extend the December 4 deadline for TikTok's forced sale but will not enforce the order either, allowing the negotiations to continue — - No new deadline is expected while deal discussions progress — Administration wants to finalize deal before Trump's term ends
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Snowflake reported revenue of $159.6M in Q3, up 119% YoY, and an operating loss of $169.5M, in its first earnings report since going public in September — - Snowflake's revenue growth was roughly in line with the prior quarter. — The company's shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
DC-based FiscalNote, which makes software to help companies navigate government regulations and laws, raises $160M, bringing its total raised to $347M — A wave of populism has led many governments around the world to rule in an increasingly erratic fashion.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
OnlyFans says it will generate $2B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out $200M+ a month to its 1M+ creators — As Cardi B prepared the release for her new song “WAP,” she checked off all the usual components of her promotional plan …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
Moov Financial, which developed an open source platform for adding banking and payment functionality into apps, raises $27M Series A led by a16z — Startup's goal is to empower developers with developer-first code that's “modular, portable, and bank agnostic”
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| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Singapore issues digital bank licenses to Ant Group, Sea, and joint bidders Singtel and Grab, with operations likely to start in early 2022 — Alibaba's Ant Group and joint bidders Grab and Singtel are amongst bidders that have snagged licences to offer digital banking services in the country …
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Profile of Luminar's Austin Russell, one of the first billionaires to emerge from the autonomous vehicle world after Luminar went public via a SPAC on Thursday — I follow technology-driven changes reshaping transportation. — I cover young people doing big things.
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Amazon adds live and on-demand US local news to its news app on Fire TVs, starting with 12 major markets and expanding into 90 more during 2021 — At the end of a record-setting year of news consumption, Amazon Fire TV said local TV stations in 12 U.S. cities will be added to Amazon's news app, with another 90 on deck for 2021.
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