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Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relationship, OpenAI renegotiating its deal for more computing power, Microsoft's own LLM efforts, and more — The “best bromance in tech” has had a reality check as OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft and the software maker has tried to hedge its bet on the start-up.
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Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much equity Microsoft gets when OpenAI becomes a for-profit company, for which OpenAI has two years — The two companies have hired investment banks to help negotiate how much equity Microsoft gets when OpenAI becomes a for-profit company
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Bluesky says it added 500K new users in a day this week after X announced plans for controversial changes, including basically getting rid of the block feature — A handful of changes coming to X may be pushing users to its competitor. Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, says it added 500,000 new users in a day this week.
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X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, whose judges often favor conservative litigants — Elon Musk's X has updated its terms of service to steer any disputes by users of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter …
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Sources: Samsung has postponed taking deliveries of ASML chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Taylor, Texas as it has yet to win any major customers — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) has postponed taking deliveries of ASML (ASML.AS) chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory …
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| Todd Feathers / Gizmodo: |
The US Treasury says its enhanced detection tools, including AI, helped in the prevention and recovery of $4B+ in fraudulent payments in FY 2024, up over 6x YoY — The Treasury says it identified or recovered $4 billion in fraudulent payments last fiscal year, a sixfold increase over the previous year.
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Perplexity launches Internal Knowledge Search, to search the web or internal files, and Spaces, a way to organize research, for its Pro and Enterprise customers — Enterprises can use their Perplexity dashboards to search for internal information and combine it with knowledge from the internet … | Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.83B, vs. $9.76B est., paid memberships up 14% to 282.72M, vs. 282.15M est., and net income of $2.4B; NFLX jumps 7%+ — LOS ANGELES — Netflix reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results. — Earnings per share: $5.40.
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Sources: the US is probing if TSMC has been making AI or smartphone chips for Huawei in breach of US sanctions, including Huawei buying chips via intermediaries — The U.S. Commerce Department is investigating whether Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has been making artificial intelligence …
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Sources: Intel is looking to sell at least a minority stake, or possibly a majority stake, worth billions in its Altera subsidiary at a valuation of around $17B — Intel is looking to sell at least a minority stake in its Altera subsidiary that would raise several billion dollars in cash …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's founder Byju Raveendran says his edtech startup, valued at $22B in 2022, is effectively “worth zero”, and that he made mistakes and mistimed the market — Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled edtech group Byju's, acknowledged on Thursday afternoon that he made mistakes …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as World, unveils a new Orb powered by Nvidia's Jetson chipset, plans to integrate its ID verification into other software, more — - It also is updating its mobile app to support “mini apps” from various third parties. — World said the new version … | Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
The FCC issues new rules that will require all mobile phones sold in the US to be compatible with hearing aids, “after a transition period” — With the number of Americans 65 and older expected to balloon by nearly 50 percent by 2050, the rules will ensure those with hearing loss …
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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
LinkedIn woos publishers, testing a “News Banner” on its mobile app feed and a video ad program that sources say will earn Bloomberg and WSJ $2M+ each in 2024 — As Facebook owner Meta Platforms has backed away from news, Microsoft's LinkedIn has leaned into it.
More: Broadband TV News and AdExchanger
LinkedIn: Rodrigo Brancatelli, Catherine Taibi Autorino, Dan Horowitz, and Glenn Gabe
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's Full Self-Driving, covering 2.4M vehicles, after four reported crashes in low-visibility situations, including one fatal crash — The U.S. auto safety regulator said on Friday it has opened an investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after reports …
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