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At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute — The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together … | Financial Times: |
Ahead of the UK's AI summit, Chinese scientists warn of AI's “existential risk to humanity”; the UK says the next AI Summit will be held in South Korea — Attendees of Bletchley Park gathering convened by UK premier Rishi Sunak warn of ‘existential risk to humanity’| 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.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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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.| 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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube “launched a global effort” to encourage users with ad blockers to allow ads or try YouTube Premium, after a “small experiment” earlier in 2023 — YouTube is broadening its efforts to crack down on ad blockers. The platform has “launched a global effort” … | Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's ambition to revolutionize health care: some breakthroughs marred by philosophical disagreements, a culture of conservatism, and tech realities — The company is working on big things, but employees disagree over whether they should be serving people who are healthy or sick.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans several new health features for 2024's Apple Watch, like an elevated blood pressure sensor, and a paid health service, possibly using AI — - AirPods will get hearing-aid capability and hearing tests — AI health coach in the works, as are Vision Pro health tools| 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 … | Shivangi Acharya / Reuters: |
Sources: India authorizes 110 companies, including Apple, HP, Samsung, Xiaomi, and Lenovo, to import laptops, tablets, and PCs under its new tech import rules — Apple (AAPL.O), Dell (DELL.N), HP (HPE.N), Samsung (005930.KS) and Lenovo (0992.HK) are among 110 firms authorised by India to import laptops … | Tim Wu / The Atlantic: |
Despite broad support by the US public and lawmakers for child internet laws, Congress has done nothing, even after holding 39 hearings on the topic since 2017 — Americans are broadly united in support of laws to make the internet safer for kids. So why doesn't Congress act?| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Shareholder letter: Netflix says its ad tier now has 15M MAUs globally, accounting for 30% of new sign-ups where its available, and plans new ad formats in 2024 — Netflix is ready to use “The Crown,” “Squid Game” and other signature series to take ad dollars from rival streamers.| Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post: |
After three hours of oral arguments, SCOTUS found no consensus on whether public officials can block social media critics, part of two First Amendment cases — The Supreme Court will decide several cases this term that impact the future of free speech on social media platforms| 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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 4% YoY to $5.8B, vs. $5.7B est., net income up 353% YoY to $299M, Data Center revenue of $1.6B, and Q4 sales forecast below estimates — Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday … | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Google, Temasek, and Bain report: Southeast Asia online spending will rise ~11% in 2023 to $218B, down from 20% in 2022, slowing to its lowest rate since 2017 — - Region's digital economy cools as consumers curb spending — Researchers cut near-term e-commerce growth estimate by 13%| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
LinkedIn announces a GPT-4-powered AI chatbot aimed at being a “job seeker coach”, available to Premium users, and says the platform now has 1B+ members — - LinkedIn said it surpassed 1 billion members and debuted an AI chatbot billed as a “job seeker coach” and other generative AI tools for Premium members.| Counterpoint Research: |
Apple shipped 2.5M iPhones in India in Q3, its highest quarterly shipments; Samsung remained top with a 17.2% share, followed by Xiaomi (16.6%) and Vivo (15.9%) — - With a 17.2% share, Samsung remained the market leader for the fourth consecutive quarter.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
FusionAuth, which offers developer authentication and user management tools, raised $65M led by Updata, its first outside funding in its five-year history — Funding for cybersecurity startups continues to look bleak. According to a recent Crunchbase survey, companies … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google and Match Group reach a settlement in their app store antitrust case: Google plans to let 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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