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Source: the US ordered TSMC to halt shipments of AI chips, of 7nm or more advanced designs, to Chinese customers starting on November 11 — The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers that are often used …
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| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M — The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement — Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools — Chegg's stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT — Most companies are starting to figure …
More: Gizmodo. Bluesky: @joshphillips.bsky.social. X: @scottlincicome. LinkedIn: Bart Epstein and Mike Grandinetti
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| Washington Post: |
Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters — Artificial intelligence was predicted to disrupt the 2024 election. It ended up shaking people's faith in truth rather than changing minds.
Source: ISD. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @alexandrosm, @jaredlholt, and @john_sipher. LinkedIn: ISD
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Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller than the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4; Orion may not outperform predecessors in tasks like coding — The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring. The rate of improvement … | Bloomberg: |
FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Zuckerberg's FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF's “investments” as part of his “campaign of influence-buying” in 2022 — - Lawsuit says $67 million was invested into Skybridge endeavors — FTX Says investments conveyed ‘little to no benefit’
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies create their own internal benchmarks as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on existing public tests — Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language models| Newcomer: |
San Francisco's next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi's heir with no political experience, wasn't tech leaders' top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them — San Francisco venture capitalists didn't get all the results they'd hoped for in this week's local elections.
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| James Zou / Nature: |
A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs — Since the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was released in late 2022, computer scientists have noticed a troubling trend …
| Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US — Agency accused of vast cyberattacks on U.S. has grown more powerful with trusted protégé of Chinese leader at the helm| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury as of Oct. 31, down from $1.6B in March 2022; ~80% of holdings in ETH, which declined 20%+ since 2022 — The foundation has spent roughly $240 million since March 2022, and holds most of its treasury in ether, which has slid roughly 22% since the last financial report.
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