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X says it's closing its operations in Brazil, claiming a judge threatened arrest if X didn't comply with “censorship orders”; the service remains available — X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it's ending operations in Brazil …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's work on its in-house modem chip, which may debut in some niche models next year, with the full rollout taking a few years to complete — Apple's move to drop Qualcomm modem chips won't have a payoff at the outset, but it could set the stage for bigger things later.
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| Financial Times: |
South Korea's plan to introduce tablets with AI features in schools faces backlash from parents and academics concerned about children's overexposure to devices — South Korea's plan to introduce artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks in schools has provoked a backlash from parents …
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| Jeremy Stern / Tablet: |
A profile of Palmer Luckey, who sold Oculus to Facebook, was fired after donating to a pro-Trump troll group, and now imagines a new age of warfare at Anduril — The facts of Palmer Luckey's life are so uniquely bizarre—combining elements of fantasy with lunacy and also world-altering change …
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
South Korean AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon agree to merge; Rebellions has raised $225M+ and Sapeon's shareholders include SK Telecom and SK Hynix — South Korean artificial-intelligence chip makers Rebellions Inc and Sapeon Korea Inc have signed a definitive merger agreement, the privately held companies said on Sunday.| Representative Nancy Pelosi: |
Nancy Pelosi issues a statement in opposition to California's AI safety bill, saying it's “well-intentioned but ill-informed” and “more harmful than helpful” — San Francisco - Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement in opposition to California Senate Bill 1047:
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| Edward Helmore / The Guardian: |
Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters — Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps
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| Marilen Martin / Bloomberg: |
A survey of 2,012 people in Germany finds ~50% wouldn't use the digital euro over privacy fears; the European Central Bank will decide on a rollout by 2025 end — - ECB officals to decide on rollout by end of next year — Half of people in Germany can't imagine using e-euro
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Runway debuts Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, a faster and cheaper model than Gen-3 Alpha, capable of generating 5- or 10-second-long video clips, available for all plans — After showing it off in preview late last month, Runway has officially released Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, the latest version …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
OpenAI removed a cluster of Iranian accounts using ChatGPT for an influence campaign targeting the US elections, and says the effort didn't gain much traction — The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction. — OpenAI said on Friday that it had discovered …
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| Jackson Ryan / New York Times: |
A profile of Anthony Tan, the solo developer of Way to the Woods, a game that received Epic Games funding and remains unreleased nine years after its conception — Anthony Tan was 16 when his idea for a video game about a deer caught the industry's eye. Nine years later, he's still working on it.
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| Justin Bachman / Legal Dive: |
A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI — A video creator alleges that the companies scraped his videos, and millions of others, without permission to help train their generative AI learning models.Sponsor Posts
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