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Letter: Meta urges California's AG to stop OpenAI's for-profit transition, says Musk is “qualified” to “represent the interests of Californians in this matter” — Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit Mark Zuckerberg's company …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
In a blog post, OpenAI says “You can't sue your way to AGI”, and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit — Musk is also the founder of xAI, an OpenAI rival. — The current suit, filed in August, is the successor …
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Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation — The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla …
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Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who accused the company of copyright violations in October, was found dead by suicide on November 26 in San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO — A former OpenAI researcher known for whistleblowing the blockbuster artificial intelligence company facing …
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| Devan Cole / CNN: |
A US appeals court declines to temporarily block a ban on TikTok; TikTok had indicated it would ask SCOTUS to step in on an emergency basis to block the law — A federal appeals court on Friday declined to temporarily block a ban on TikTok, teeing up a showdown at the Supreme Court over whether … | Financial Times: |
Duolingo has bucked the post-pandemic blues in edtech, with its stock price up over 300% from its 2021 IPO price of $102, giving the company a ~$15B market cap — The language learning app sees big growth opportunities ahead — Education technology companies became sought after properties during …
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
During his NeurIPS talk, Ilya Sutskever says “Pre-training as we know it will end”, as “we've achieved peak data and there'll be no more” — OpenAI's cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left start …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
MicroStrategy, Palantir, and Axon will join the Nasdaq 100 index, effective before the market open on December 23; Super Micro will be removed from the index — MicroStrategy, the preferred high beta play on the price of bitcoin, will join the Nasdaq 100 index, a move that could further increase demand …
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Justin Sun's BiT Global, which became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product — - Justin Sun's BiT Global is suing Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product. — In August, BitGo named BiT Global … | Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
How Viam, founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz, helps companies make anything “smart”, including pizza buffets and bathroom lines — Entrepreneur Eliot Horowitz, who founded $22 billion database company MongoDB, is betting on artificial intelligence in the physical world
LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Evinced, which helps companies build accessible websites and apps, raised a $55M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $112M — Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen.
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| Jacky Wong / Wall Street Journal: |
Japanese chipmaker Kioxia's dramatic valuation drop from $18B in 2018 to $5.1B in its upcoming IPO is due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals — Kioxia is going for a discount due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals — Japan's last blockbuster initial public offering … | Yuji Nitta / Nikkei Asia: |
Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries — HANOI — Southeast Asian nations are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
xAI begins rolling out an upgraded version of Grok-2 that is “three times faster” to all X users, adds a “Grok button” to X posts, and reduces API pricing — XAI, Elon Musk's AI company, may be embroiled in an escalating lawsuit with OpenAI.
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X: @chatgpt21, @autismcapital, and @nickadobos
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Dell's evolution under Michael Dell, who has transitioned the company from a nostalgic mid-90s PC maker into a leading AI infrastructure provider — The man who founded Dell in a Texas dorm room has transformed his company. It's not just about PCs anymore.
LinkedIn: Nicolai Tangen
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
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