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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
ChatGPT refuses to state some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling bug; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue  —  Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Intel's board gave CEO Pat Gelsinger the option to retire or be removed after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn the company around  —  - Gelsinger was given the option to retire or be removed  — Company's CFO and product CEO will serve as interim leaders
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches by “After date,” “Before date,” and “From profile”  —  Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches …
More: TechCrunch, Neowin, and MobileSyrup
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Nico Grant / New York Times:
Internal docs: in early 2021, Google's lawyers, policy team, and more worried that its $1.2B Project Nimbus deal with Israel may enable human rights violations  —  The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel's military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
An email and documents show Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't subject to Google's general TOS, but an “adjusted” TOS drafted by Google and Israel  —  When questioned about its controversial cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, Google has repeatedly claimed …
John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:
The NCSC says the UK faces a “widening gap” in its ability to fight cyber threats, and “severe” incidents handled by the agency tripled to 12 in the past year  —  Number of incidents at top end of scale of severity tripled last year, including attack that took down London hospitals
Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times:
European defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection  —  Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems

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CNN:
Source: UFC CEO Dana White has declined Trump's offer to become press secretary

Washington Post:
Sources: Trump ally Laura Loomer was paid, including via wire transfers worth ~$60K, for political social media posts without publicly disclosing the payments

Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Valnet agrees to a $2M settlement to end a 2023 suit accusing it of misclassifying some workers as contractors rather than full-time employees to deny them pay

More News

Associated Press:
Delivery Hero's food delivery app Glovo says it will move to an employment-based model for its drivers in Spain, and anticipates a €100M earnings hit in 2025
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin shuts down and plans to move accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March 2025, after a $300M+ hack in May 2024

Earlier Picks

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS details updates to its data centers, including liquid cooling for AI servers, more simplified electrical and mechanical designs for server racks, and more
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in nearly $50M in earnings
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
How generative AI may bridge current computing paradigms to future innovations, especially in wearables, which will benefit from context-aware user interfaces
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, gives an “early preview” of its first project, an AI system that can generate game-like, 3D scenes from an image
Bloomberg:
Super Micro says an external review found no evidence of wrongdoing, and plans to hire a new CFO, chief compliance officer, and general counsel; SMCI jumps 28%+
Bloomberg:
Toronto-based AI chip designer Tenstorrent raised a $700M Series D from Jeff Bezos, Samsung, and more at a ~$2.6B valuation and claims nearly $150M in contracts
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