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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
OpenAI makes Sam Altman's return as CEO official and gives Microsoft a non-voting observer seat on the nonprofit board that controls the for-profit company — Sam Altman is officially OpenAI's CEO again. — Just before Thanksgiving, the company said it had reached a deal in principle for him to return, and now it's done.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that co-founder Ilya Sutskever won't be a board member, but that the company is “discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI” — - Sam Altman is officially back as CEO of the AI startup — Mira Murati will retain her post as chief technology officer
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on his firing, returning to OpenAI, improving its governance, Q*, lessons from the saga, and more; Altman declines to say why he was fired — “Clearly our governance structure had a problem,” according to Altman. … When OpenAI's board asked Sam Altman to return …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Elon Musk scoffs at advertisers leaving X because of his controversial posts: “If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising ... go fuck yourself” — - In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Elon Musk calls his November 15 X post a mistake that “handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic”, for which he's sorry — I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what i meant.
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| Kim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta plans to launch Threads in the EU in December, its largest expansion since its July 2023 debut, but only for consumption, no profiles or posting — Expansion is expected in December, a signal of company's commitment to microblogging service — Facebook parent Meta Platforms plans …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The BEUC and 18 others target Meta's €9.99+ Europe subscription in a complaint, two days after a similar noyb complaint, saying the option charges for privacy — Meta Platforms' (META.O) advertising-free subscription service, a fee-based offering rolled out in Europe this month …
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Meta officials say the US stopped proactively sharing information on foreign influence operations, as the company releases its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report — Russia, Iran and China are likely to conduct influence operations via fake social media accounts ahead of the 2024 election, a new Meta report says.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
ASML CEO Peter Wennink plans to step down in April 2024 after over 10 years at the chip equipment giant, replaced by industry veteran Christophe Fouquet — Dutch chip company appoints Christophe Fouquet as successor — Peter Wennink, chief executive of chipmaking equipment manufacturer ASML … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says Amkor will package some Apple silicon chips in its new Arizona facility; Amkor plans to invest $2B, employ 2,000, and start production in 2-3 years — As part of its efforts to expand its U.S. manufacturing, Apple today announced that Amkor will package some Apple silicon chips …
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| Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: |
Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times — Large language models, like ChatGPT, are trained on vast amounts of text data from books, websites, and other sources.
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Analysis: crypto mining used ~1,600 gigaliters of water in 2021 when bitcoin peaked at $65K, or 16K liters per transaction, around 6.2M times a credit card — Bitcoin mines aren't just energy-hungry, it turns out they're thirsty, too. The water consumption tied to a single Bitcoin transaction … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
At re:Invent, AWS unveils Model Evaluation on Bedrock in preview to help companies evaluate AI models before use, with human testers involved in the process — Amazon wants users to evaluate AI models better and encourage more humans to be involved in the process.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Dalvin Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
On December 1, Google will start deleting personal Google accounts that have been inactive for at least two years; once deleted, no data can be recovered — How to revive your Google account before it's too late — Google will start to sweep away cobweb-collecting Gmail accounts this week.
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| Anna Baydakova / The Block: |
A US court says FTX Trading and affiliated debtors can start selling $744M worth of Grayscale and Bitwise shares; GBTC accounts for 22.3M units worth $597M — - A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Wednesday that FTX debtors can start selling $744 million worth of Grayscale and Bitwise shares.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
At the NYT's DealBook event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US is 10 years to 20 years from chip independence and reaffirms Nvidia's commitment to China — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, who runs the semiconductor industry's most valuable company …
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| Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Interviews with dozens of industry insiders and experts reveal Huawei's and SMIC's efforts to build advanced chips and maintain marketshare despite US sanctions — The inside story of how the country's flagship tech company kept its edge in the semiconductor war despite sanctions
X: @jkynge and @eleanorolcott
| New York Times: |
Spotify Wrapped 2023's new Sound Town, for similar listeners in other cities, leaves users baffled and entertained after many were designated as Burlington, VT — The music streaming service released a new feature — Sound Towns — with its yearly summary of listener preferences and linked many people to an unexpected city.| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Substack rolls out video creation and editing tools to enable creators to publish video podcasts, create interactive AI-made transcripts, and customize clips — Content creators are launching original shows on Substack as the company introduces a suite of new video tools
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| Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
At an event, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart says Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation, Nintendo, and “every screen that can play games” — “It's a bit of a change of strategy,” Microsoft admits. — Microsoft wants to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation and Nintendo.
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Forums: r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, r/Games, r/gaming, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
WhatsApp begins letting users hide locked chats behind a secret code, after introducing locked chats in May 2023, rolling out globally in the coming months — WhatsApp is introducing a new way to keep your locked chats away from prying eyes. Instead of having your locked chats folder visible …
More: The Independent, The Mirror, Daily Mail, WhatsApp Blog, India Today, WABetaInfo, The Indian Express, and NewsBytes
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Local media: David Vincenzetti, who founded infamous spyware maker Hacking Team in 2003, was arrested for allegedly stabbing and attempting to murder a relative — The founder of the infamous and now-defunct spyware maker Hacking Team was arrested on Saturday after allegedly stabbing …
X: @lorenzofb, @juanandres_gs, @iblametom, and @lorenzofb
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Google TAG executive Kate Morgan says Google observed a “massive increase” in Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan in the last six months from over 100 groups — - Company has observed a ‘massive increase’ in China's attacks — Government-sponsored hackers targeting government and industry
More: DigiTimes and MarketWatch
| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
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