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Microsoft releases a Windows 11 2023 Update that replaces Chat with Microsoft Teams (Free); big features like Copilot and AI-powered Paint arrived in September — Microsoft is releasing its Windows 11 2023 Update today, which was originally supposed to be one of the biggest updates to Windows 11.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube says it “launched a global effort” to encourage users with ad blockers to allow ads or try YouTube Premium, after a “small experiment” earlier this year — YouTube is broadening its efforts to crack down on ad blockers. The platform has “launched a global effort” … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bungie cut ~100 jobs after executives said the company's revenue was 45% below projections for the year, citing a drop in Destiny 2's popularity — - Sales at studio were running 45% below projections for year — Layoffs are part of a bigger revamp at Sony PlayStation unit
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: WeWork plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as next week; WE drops 40%+ after hours — Once a venture capital-backed star with an astronomical valuation, the flexible-office-space provider is now preparing for chapter 11 protection — WeWork is planning to file …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta's Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture — - Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis told CNBC that the company wasn't trying to achieve “regulatory capture” when it came to the discussion on how best to approach AI.| John Davidson / Australian Financial Review: |
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
AMD Q3: revenue up 4% YoY to $5.8B, vs. $5.7B est., net income up 353% YoY to $299M, Data Center revenue flat at $1.6B, and Q4 revenue forecast below estimates — Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday … | Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The Guardian says its reputation was damaged after Microsoft Start placed an AI-generated poll about a woman's death next to the outlet's article about her — Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman's death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’
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| AI Snake Oil: |
What Biden's EO means for AI openness, and why a compute threshold is unlikely to effectively anticipate individual models' riskiness, but may work in aggregate — Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details — The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind says its latest AlphaFold model can generate predictions for nearly all molecules in the Protein Data Bank and for ligands, nucleic acids, and more — Nearly five years ago, DeepMind, one of Google's more prolific AI-centered research labs, debuted AlphaFold, an AI system …
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| New York Times: |
On his final day of testimony, SBF denied knowing that billions of dollars in customer money had been misappropriated until shortly before FTX collapsed — The founder of the FTX crypto exchange was grilled by a federal prosecutor for a second day, just before both sides rested their case in the criminal fraud trial.
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| New York Times: |
Check Point details a monthslong espionage campaign by Iranian hackers targeting countries, including Israel, underscoring Iran's improved hacking capabilities — A monthslong hacking campaign targeted the governments of regional rivals, including Israel, and marked a turn, a new report says …
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| Reuters: |
Tesla wins its first US trial over allegations that Autopilot led to a death, in a jury trial in a California court, but faces more lawsuits and investigations — Tesla (TSLA.O) on Tuesday won the first U.S. trial over allegations that its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and Match Group say they've reached a settlement in an app store antitrust case, letting Match implement third-party billing options by March 31, 2024 — Google and Match announced today they've reached a settlement in the antitrust battle Match waged against the tech giant …
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Infoblox discovers a threat actor that has provided link shortening services to cybercriminals for over four years, registering ~75K domains since April 2022 — An actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Doc: a Dutch regulator ruled in July that Apple's fees on some app subscriptions violate EU antitrust laws, after Apple offered to drop its cut from 30% to 27% — - Watchdog issued confidential July decision on App Store abuses — Regulator previously warned Apple over in-app payment rules
More: Silicon UK, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, and Reuters
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Chrome on iOS, but not Chrome on Android, with the option to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, like Safari — Visually, Chrome on iOS is pretty different from the Android version. That disparity continues to grow today with the new ability to move … | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to over $950M; CEO Hosam Arab says Tabby is profitable — The past year and a half have witnessed multiple startups facing valuation cuts as funding from VCs waned in an environment of rising interest rates.
More: Bloomberg
| Financial Times: |
Ahead of the UK's AI summit, Chinese scientists warn of AI's “existential risk to humanity”; sources: the UK plans to announce South Korea as Summit's 2024 host — Attendees of Bletchley Park gathering convened by UK premier Rishi Sunak warn of ‘existential risk to humanity’
More: Telegraph
| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google internally declared “Code Yellow” emergency in February 2019 for seven weeks to figure out why user search queries have slowed down — - Search executive said team was ‘getting too involved with ads’ — Company declared emergency in 2019 over slow query growth
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| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
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