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Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
OpenAI's Sora announcement sparks awe and horror, as the startup continues to be frustratingly secretive about the data used to train the text-to-video model  —  Sam Altman is being secretive in all the wrong places as he barrels toward superintelligent AI.  —  Every new OpenAI announcement sparks some measure of awe and terror.
Steven Levy / Wired:
OpenAI unveils Sora, its first text-to-video model, which can create up to a minute of 1080p video, as a research product for some creators and security experts
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New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI has completed a deal that values the company at $80B or more; OpenAI would sell existing shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital  —  The A.I. start-up's valuation tripled in less than 10 months.  —  OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco artificial …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google releases Android 15's first developer preview, with updates related to Android's Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, the camera experience, and more  —  Our first official glimpse of Android 15 is here.  It includes a lot of under-the-hood tweaks to strengthen communication between hardware …
Susan Lazaruk / Vancouver Sun:
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada should give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airlines' chatbot  —  A B.C. man booked an Air Canada flight to Toronto for his grandmother's funeral using the website's chatbot …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Sam Altman is working to get US approval for his chip project, as involving the UAE and others risks raising national security and antitrust concerns  —  - Middle East investors, factories may prompt security concerns  — Potential new company could trigger antitrust review
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim  —  The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe's, in a legal filing while fighting a case.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
PitchBook: VC investment in crypto rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first rise since Q1 2022; Q4 2023 saw 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020  —  - PitchBook said in a fourth-quarter update that the level of investment for crypto-related companies in the fourth quarter totaled $1.9 billion …
Washington Post:
Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to influence US elections are flourishing on X, which no longer attends biweekly info-sharing meetings with social platforms  —  X hasn't sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies
More: Ars Technica.  Threads: @renee.diresta.  Mastodon: @w7voa@journa.host and @aaronjschaffer@mastodon ….  X: @thedragonfeeder.  LinkedIn: Yael Eisenstat.  Forums: r/Twitter
William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Epic plans to “start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon” and launch the store in 2024, thanks to the DMA, after Apple approved its developer account  —  Three years after Apple kicked Epic Games off the App Store for breaking terms of business, it has allowed the firm …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature, which calls a business on the user's behalf and holds until a human becomes available  —  Google Search Labs is testing a “Talk to a Live Representative” feature where it will “help you place the call …
RT Watson / The Block:
Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof's NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside  —  - Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs announced it has acquired Proof, which created the Moonbirds non-fungible token collection.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Clubhouse adds texting to group voice chats, letting users train a custom voice and send asynchronous texts that the app will read out in the sender's voice  —  Clubhouse, the once-popular live audio app, announced today that users can now text their friends and they'll hear those texts in the sender's custom voice.
Associated Press:
Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok, X, and 11 other companies sign a voluntary accord to fight deepfakes that deliberately trick voters  —  Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools …

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CNN:
Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, dies at 58

Alexandra Canal / Yahoo Finance:
Analysts say Neflix's NFL deal marks a “natural evolution” of the company, which had avoided traditional live sports investments, helping boost its ad business

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
The CAA partners with Veritone to build a storage system for A-list artists to store their digital assets and get compensated for the use of their AI likeness

More News

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
The US FTC proposes rules that would make companies liable if they “know or have reason to know” their AI tech is being used to harm consumers via impersonation
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg:
The US and its allies disrupt access by Russia-backed hacking group APT28, or Fancy Bear, to 1,000+ home and small business routers used for criminal purposes

Earlier Picks

Davey Winder / Forbes:
Google announces the AI Cyber Defense Initiative, which includes launching new AI security training and open sourcing Magika, a tool used to protect Gmail users
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
Meta releases V-JEPA, an AI model trained by predicting missing or masked parts of unlabeled video to develop an internal conceptual understanding of the world
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
Ukrainian Vyacheslav Penchukov pleads guilty in the US for his role in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups, which stole millions from victims for over a decade
Bloomberg:
Coinbase reports Q4 revenue up 51% YoY to $953.8M, vs. $826M est., net income of $273M, its first profit in two years, vs. a loss of $557M YoY; COIN jumps 10%+
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google makes Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Ultra generally available, adds support for adapter-based tuning in Vertex, and rolls out new developer tools
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta plans to start charging a 30% fee for boosting Facebook and Instagram posts on iOS later in February, after Apple extended its 30% cut to boosting in 2022
Jon Porter / The Verge:
TikTok debuts a native Apple Vision Pro app with a similar UI to its mobile apps; in January, an executive said TikTok “redesigned the entire TikTok experience”
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