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Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms — We will appeal the Court's decision but the process requires that we first file proposed remedies. This is a case about contracts.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
As part of its remedies proposal, Google says it won't require device makers and other partners to distribute Gemini to US users for three years — Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
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Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November — Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency — But there's a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data.
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| Financial Times: |
Report: hedge funds employing crypto strategies posted 46% gains in November, bringing their YTD returns to 76%, outpacing the industry average of 10% YTD gains — Crypto strategies made more than 30 per cent in November following Donald Trump's election victory
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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024 and expects to invest $2.5B to $3B in 2025 across AI, finance, biotech, education, and mining — Exit Content Preview … - Ardoino says the company is tracking toward a record $10 billion in net profits this year.| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data — OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion
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| Bloomberg: |
The US awards a $4.75B CHIPS Act grant to Samsung and $1.6B to Texas Instruments for new factories in Texas and Utah, rounding out the program's largest grants — - Incentives will go toward new factories in Texas and Utah — Biden administration is racing to complete federal grants| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
A look at a lawsuit from 64 families against Snap that alleges Snapchat's design is responsible for connecting teens to dealers selling counterfeit drugs — “I'm a survivor, and that's bad for you, CEO of Snapchat, because, uh, uh, uh ...” Michael Brewer can't finish his sentence.
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities — New research from Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies and the developer of the Claude family of Large Language Models …
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
A profile of AWS CEO Matt Garman, including his first few months on the job, what his stewardship means for the business, and his opportunities and challenges — Matt Garman joined Amazon Web Services as an intern nearly two decades ago. But his appearance earlier this month … | Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says safety researchers can sign up for o3 preview today and that it decided not to name the new model o2 “out of respect” for the UK telecom company — The new AI system, called o3, is expected to launch early next year. — OpenAI is preparing to launch …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
Sensor Tower: Indian quick commerce startup Zepto had 31M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 6M in May 2022; Blinkit had 30M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 28M in May 2022 — Quick-commerce rivals Zomato-owned Blinkit and Zepto are neck-and-neck in India's instant delivery market … Sponsor Posts
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