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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sources: Nintendo told game publishers the Switch 2's launch is delayed from late 2024 to Q1 2025; source: Nintendo needs more time to prepare its own games — That's according to Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe, who claims in a new OX do Controle video that he received the information from five separate sources.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI completed a deal valuing the startup at $80B or more, planning to let employees cash out their 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 …
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| 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 …
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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.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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| 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.
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Two professional gamers sue Activision Blizzard in the US, alleging the company is unlawfully monopolizing the market for Call of Duty leagues and tournaments — Video game maker Activision Blizzard has been hit with a U.S. lawsuit claiming it restricts competition for organized gaming involving its flagship franchise “Call of Duty.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors — - SoftBank has $41 billion cash pile and finances helped by Arm — Undertaking code-named Izanagi after Japanese god of creation| Susan Lazaruk / Vancouver Sun: |
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada must give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airline's chatbot — A B.C. man booked an Air Canada flight to Toronto for his grandmother's funeral using the website's chatbot …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Google stopped notifying publishers of “right to be forgotten” removals, after a Swedish court ruled that informing webmasters is a breach of privacy — Move after Swedish court rules that informing webmasters about delisted content is breach of privacy
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta is matching existing fact checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, and says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads — Threads, Meta's Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn't mean …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's reversal on RCS wasn't forced by the EU, but likely by China, whose government began codifying in 2023 a requirement for new 5G devices to support RCS — We've had pretty obvious hints since early September that iMessage and Bing would be considered exempt from “gatekeeper” status, and thus exempt from the DMA.
| 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 …
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X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @appleinsider, and @epicnewsroom. LinkedIn: Bill Young
| 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 …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Apple's Vision Pro could become a valuable multiuser device, but it undermines that fantasy at every turn through its single-user setup and more — Shortly before The Verge published its review of the Apple Vision Pro, I put it on to sit for some photos. The review unit had been fitted … | 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.
More: Yuga Labs News, Decrypt, CoinGape, The Defiant, Crypto Briefing, ARTnews, and NFTgators
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, and more — The platform will feature deeper analytics and lower fees than the digital bank's app.
More: Cryptonews, crypto.news, Milk Road, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, CryptoSlate, and Bitcoin Insider. Forums: r/ethtrader
| 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
| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content — - Social media firm agrees $60 million deal with AI company — Reddit advised to seek at least $5 billion IPO valuation
More: Reuters. X: @lukebk, @josourcing, @chrisamccoy, @privacymatters, @natarajsindam, @awwstn, @jason, @jennifercobbe, and @quinnypig. Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration is in talks to confer more than $10B in subsidies to Intel, in what would be the largest award yet under the CHIPS Act — - Money to come from $39 billion grant and $75 billion loan pool — Award to be announced in the coming weeks, people familiar say
More: Reuters
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