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October 19, 2024, 12:45 PM

Top News

Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
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K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg:
DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it a Chinese military company, says the DOD didn't engage on the issue for over 16 months  —  - US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm  — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
The Verge:
A judge grants Google a temporary stay on the Epic ruling while Google appeals, which means Google might not have to change Play Store practices for years  —  Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle.  Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future  —  [Editor's Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant's past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.
Simon Willison's Weblog:
Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini  —  The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract  —  The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and …
Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller:
Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints  —  The world's biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors' intellectual property …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only  —  Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company's first open-source multimodal language model capable …

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