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The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive attempt to limit the use of the technology; the law still needs to go through a few steps for approval — The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world's first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of artificial intelligence.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Sources: complaints from some senior OpenAI leaders that Sam Altman had been psychologically abusive were a major factor in the board's decision to fire Altman — The senior employees described Altman as psychologically abusive, creating chaos at the artificial-intelligence start-up …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Source: the US FTC is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and potentially antitrust law violations but hasn't opened a formal investigation — - The agency hasn't opened a formal probe into Microsoft-OpenAI — Microsoft didn't report deal to FTC due to non-profit status| Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA is considering an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and is taking comments until January 3 before making a decision — - CMA seeking views on whether the relationship should be probed — Move is less than two months since watchdog cleared Activision
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How author Steven Johnson, now a Google employee for over a year, helped create NotebookLM, which lets writers extract key themes from their research material — Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer's research material and help them extract and explore the key themes.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app's ability to function — Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: X has held preliminary talks with Amazon to make ads available via Amazon's ad-buying software, and PubMatic, seeking to attract more small advertisers — Social-media platform has had preliminary talks with Amazon to sell ads through e-commerce giant's ad-buying software
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is reorganizing its hardware engineering group as Tang Tan, its VP in charge of iPhone and Watch product design, plans to leave in February 2024 — - Tang Tan is set to leave the tech company in February — Departure will spur changes at hardware engineering group| Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days — Days after a data breach allowed hackers to steal 6.9 million 23andMe users' personal details, the genetic testing company changed …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's Lightspeed LA studio reveals Last Sentinel, an ambitious console game by GTA veteran Steve Martin and part of Tencent's push to create IP from scratch — - Lightspeed LA reveals ‘Last Sentinel’ at The Game Awards — AAA game sets the stage in a futuristic, cyberpunk Tokyo| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An untitled countdown timer viewable only on the Threads.net homepage in EU countries suggests that the service will be expanded to EU users on December 14 — Following its rollout in countries like the US and UK this past July, Threads will finally be expanded to users in the European Union on December 14th.
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| Reuters: |
Malaysia's YTL Power partners with Nvidia in a $4.3B investment deal to create AI infrastructure in the country, including building a supercomputer in Malaysia — Malaysian conglomerate YTL's utilities unit (YTLP.KL) will partner with U.S technology giant Nvidia (NVDA.O) …
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
a16z-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere, is shutting down; D2iQ raised $250M and was valued at $775M in 2018 — Andreessen Horowitz-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere and which was once popular with software developers, is shutting down.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple and its suppliers aim to make 50M+ iPhones annually in India in two to three years, which would account for a quarter of global iPhone production — Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China
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X: @markgurman and @abhi_banarasi
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