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Memo: Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is leaving Microsoft on December 29; Activision's leadership remains and is being integrated into Microsoft Gaming — Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down officially December 29th. Microsoft has not appointed a direct replacement …
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| Bloomberg: |
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM — The dataset has been used to build popular AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion. — A massive public dataset used …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is ramping up Vision Pro production, aiming for customer-bound units to be ready by the end of January and a retail debut planned for February — - Overseas manufacturing of the headset is running at full speed — Vision Pro debut will vault Apple into new product category
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Filing: the US ITC denies Apple's motion to stay the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 import and sales ban while awaiting an appeal; Biden can veto the ban — Apple has lost its bid to delay an import and sales ban on the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2. In a filing on Wednesday … | Greg S. Fink / Car and Driver: |
Aston Martin and Porsche preview bespoke interfaces for the next generation of Apple CarPlay, which integrates into all the displays of upcoming vehicle models — Apple is working with automakers to make a brand-distinct CarPlay experience. — Apple's next-generation CarPlay environment arrives in 2024.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sony has sold 50M PS5 consoles in the three years since its November 2020 launch, almost as fast as the PS4 reached 50M, and outsold Xbox by almost 3:1 in 2023 — Sony outsells Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's Switch as sector recovers from post-pandemic slump
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
The UK Supreme Court rules that AI can't be a patent “inventor”, denying a US computer scientist's bid for two patents for an AI's creations, in a landmark case — A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created …
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| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
The US FTC proposes more data protections for kids, including making targeted ads for under-13s opt-in and banning using select data for kids push notifications — The agency proposes new limits on targeted advertising and push notifications directed at kids.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
After analyzing 7.14M miles driven, Waymo claims its autonomous driving system had an 85% reduction in injury-causing crash rates compared to human benchmarks — For years, Waymo has been claiming that its driverless vehicles have the potential to be safer than humans. Now the company says it has the data to back it up.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Interviews with 20 current and former Meta and Google staff say FTC consent decrees blocked some user data harvesting, but they are now outdated and inadequate — Google's doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Researchers say AI robot CyberRunner outmaneuvers humans in the game Labyrinth, one of the first instances of AI beating humans at direct physical applications — - Robot learned in record time to guide a ball through a maze — The AI robot used two knobs to manipulate playing surface| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The EU designates Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, facing stricter rules to verify ages and stop illegal content — Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on generative AI reshaping Meta, facial recognition, regulations, open source, Llama, AGI, recruiting, Mistral AI, and more — Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth, better known in the tech industry as “Boz,” was teaching a class …
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| ProPublica: |
Analysis of 2,000 misleading Israel-Hamas war X posts, viewed 500M times: verified users posting debunked claims are thriving and Community Notes isn't scaling — Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism … “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky.| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
Simple searches show that Etsy, despite its anti-porn policy, lists AI-generated porn for sale; Etsy removed deepfake porn of 55+ celebs after being notified — AI-generated pornographic images of at least 55 well known celebrities were available for purchase until Forbes notified Etsy.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $750M in a round led by Menlo Ventures at a $15B valuation, tripling from spring 2023; its final valuation may top $18B — Anthropic is in talks to raise $750 million in a venture round led by Menlo Ventures that values the two-year-old artificial intelligence startup …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Micron reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $4.73B, vs. $4.54B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above est., as strong data center demand makes up for device demand — - Company has been contending with sluggish phone and PC markets — CEO expects 2024 to be a rebound year for battered industry
More: SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Barron's Online, and Micron Technology
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