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Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership — President, Global Affairs & Chief Legal Officer, Google & Alphabet — As part of its lawsuit over how we distribute Search …
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| Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: |
Filing: the US DOJ asks a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google Search, and ban default search deals on iOS and other Oses — U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through …
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Forcing Google to sell Chrome sounds good on paper but the reality of it happening is fairly small as it will be extremely messy, if not impossible to execute — The idea that Google would be broken up as a result of their loss in the antitrust trial against their Search monopoly was never going to happen.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Four former Google executives say innovation by rivals is key to breaking Google Search's dominance, and ChatGPT-like tools will one day supplant Google Search — Despite shared concerns about Google's power, critics of the company and former executives express little agreement on what …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources say the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M — Wiz, one of the most talked-about names in the world of cybersecurity, is making a significant acquisition to expand its product reach … | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
The CFPB will supervise tech companies with digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Venmo, with 50M+ annual transactions, treating them more like banks — The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will now treat those companies more like banks as long as they handle … | Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% YoY to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — Nvidia (NVDA) reported its Q3 earnings after the bell on Wednesday, beating analysts' expectations on the top and bottom lines …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How Satya Nadella put Microsoft back on top, including by cleaning up its toxic culture, embracing open source, and crafting the OpenAI deal, as it nears 50 — When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.
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| Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: |
Google Quantum AI and DeepMind researchers debut ML decoder AlphaQubit, which surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors — - Google researchers introduced AlphaQubit, an AI-powered decoder that improves quantum error correction, reducing errors …
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
A profile of Thrive Capital, whose biggest portfolio companies include OpenAI and Stripe, as rivals dismiss the VC firm's approach as closer to asset management — As OpenAI raced to raise almost $7bn last month, one investor was always on hand. Thrive Capital stayed close … | Michelle Conlin / Reuters: |
Nick Pickles, who left X as VP of Global Affairs in September, joins Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity, which is building World Network, as chief policy officer — Nick Pickles, the former head of global affairs at Elon Musk's social media platform X, is joining forces with one of Musk's rivals, his fellow OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman.
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| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
The Trump administration's promises of mass deportations may lead to increased use of spyware like Graphite; ICE has a $2M contract with Graphite maker Paragon — Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Wordware, which lets customers like Instacart and Runway create AI agents using natural language instead of code, raised a $30M seed led by Spark Capital — A San Francisco startup wants to make artificial intelligence development as easy as writing in a word processor.
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| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced AI chip, the Ascend 910C, in Q1 2025, even as it struggles to make enough chips due to US curbs — China's Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2025 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Lightning AI, which lets customers fine-tune and run AI models in their preferred cloud environments, raised $50M, taking its total funding to $103M — AI may be the hottest thing since sliced bread. But that doesn't mean it's getting easier to develop and run.| Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
Several media and tech executives say UK VC Matt Clifford, who has advised successive Tory and Labour governments, has an outsized influence over AI policy — British venture capitalist has advised successive Tory and Labour governments — Last year, as thousands of customers withdrew …
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| Catherine McGrath / Fortune: |
Las Vegas-based Monkey Tilt, which combines online gambling with a chat function and content made by influencers, raised a $30M Series A led by Pantera — Monkey Tilt launched just eight months ago and has amassed $200 million of monthly betting volume. — Online gambling used …
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| Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad software company Mediaocean acquires Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20 — The privately held company will merge Innovid with Flashtalking, which it bought in 2021 — Advertising software … | Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired: |
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response — A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.| Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: |
Streamlabs: Twitch accounted for 82.3% of Q3 total hours streamed, followed by YouTube Gaming at 5.6% and Steam at 4.6%; Kick grew ~204% from Q2 2023 to Q3 2024 — For years, the Logitech-owned creator dashboard Streamlabs and its data partner Stream Hatchet have compiled quarterly progress reports for the streaming industry.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy — Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle … | Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Colorado-based Enveda, which uses AI to find drug candidates, raised $130M, after raising $55M in June, and launches a clinical trial for an oral eczema drug — AI has so far failed to transform health care, but investors are betting on its potential. — Enveda Therapeutics Inc. … Sponsor Posts
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