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Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:

Musk v. Altman: email shows Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman in 2017, Musk claims Altman proposed OpenAI sell its own cryptocurrency, and more — New emails released as part of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI reveal that the company's fondness of drama is hardly new.

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Forums: r/RealTesla, r/AnythingGoesNews, and r/AmericanPolitics

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

One year after Sam Altman was dramatically ousted and reinstated, OpenAI remains dominant as it continues to push ahead on impressive new products

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised — Carrier joins growing list of known victims, including AT&T and Verizon, of the major Chinese spying operation

More: Reuters and Tom's Guide

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Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia:

Biden admin finalizes its $6.6B CHIPS Act grant to TSMC; money will be disbursed in stages and TSMC is expected to receive at least $1B by the end of 2024 — LIMA, Peru — The Biden administration has finalized its $6.6 billion CHIPS Act grant to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …

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Jay Peters / The Verge:

Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content — ‘We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.’

Financial Times:

Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+ — Billionaire's rocket builder plots huge share sale while AI start-up closes in on $5bn funding round

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Ari Levy / CNBC:

Palantir stock jumps 9% after announcing a move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq; its stock is up 50%+ since reporting better-than-expected earnings on November 4 — Palantir shares continued their torrid run on Friday, soaring 11% to a record, after the developer of software for the military announced plans …

More: Yahoo Finance, Motley Fool, Proactive, Reuters, Barron's Online, and Quartz

X: @asifsuria, @howardlindzon, @buccocapital, @buccocapital, @investorslive, and @levynews

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others — U.S. technology giant Apple has notified RFE/RL that it has removed several of its apps following a request from Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor.

More: Reuters, Meduza, Meduza, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews

Mastodon: @glynmoody@mastodon.social. X: @cpj_eurasia, @timsweeneyepic, and @kevinrothrock. Forums: r/apple

Luc Cohen / Reuters:

A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of SBF — The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan will devote fewer resources to policing cryptocurrency crimes after securing several major convictions …

More: PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, CryptoSlate, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, Gothamist, and New York Times

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds — Threads is testing a way to create custom feeds for certain profiles or topics, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday.

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:

X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech — Elon Musk's social media platform X sued to block a California law aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media …

More: Breitbart, The Record, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, TechCrunch, and Engadget. Threads: @mathewi

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

A Paramount shareholder lawsuit claims David and Larry Ellison made an illegal deal with Trump in trade for approval of the WBD merger, promising to revamp CNN

Ted Johnson / Deadline:

Brendan Carr proposes repealing the national ownership cap, which restricts amassing TV stations that cover more than 39% of households, and sets an Aug. 6 vote

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Jonathan Greig / The Record:

An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+

More: The Register, Bloomberg, US Department of Justice, Cointelegraph, and crypto.news

Mia Sato / The Verge:

Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

More: Facebook for Creators, Search Engine Land, and Social Media Today. Bluesky: @adrianng.bsky.social

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:

UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time

More: O2 on YouTube, Virgin Media O2, Forbes, Cryptopolitan, TechCrunch, Neowin, Telecoms Tech News, BGR, MSPoweruser, PhoneArena, Shelly Palmer, PetaPixel, BetaNews, Total Telecom, Computerworld, Mashable, The Register, Infosecurity, Telegraph, Gizmodo, The Fast Mode, MobileSyrup, Decrypt, The Mirror, GovTech, and MakeUseOf

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Financial Times:

A profile of Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski amid hopes Klarna can achieve a $15B-$20B valuation in its US IPO, a redemption for the fintech poster child

More: The Information, FinTech Futures, and Sifted

Will Knight / Wired:

How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots a humanlike understanding of the physical world by feeding data from robots doing tasks into its AI model

Mastodon: @glynmoody@mastodon.social. X: @evankirstel and @willknight

Financial Times:

Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney says he led an effort to buy Grubhub for $1B+ around the start of 2024 and in 2022; Wonder bought Grubhub for $650M on Nov. 13

More: Eater, Chain Store Age, and Retail TouchPoints. LinkedIn: Brandt Kucharski

Decrypt:

Eighteen GOP state AGs sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Gary Gensler, alleging crypto regulatory overreach without Congressional authorization

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David Shepardson / Reuters:

The US DOJ says Cruise admits to submitting a false report to influence an investigation into an October 2023 crash with a pedestrian and will pay a $500K fine

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Emma Roth / The Verge:

NASA and Microsoft unveil Earth Copilot, an AI chatbot that answers questions about the Earth using NASA's data, available to NASA scientists and researchers

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Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg:

Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack

Michael Kan / PCMag:

OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a company with a friend, but doesn't offer details

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David Pierce / The Verge:

Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live