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Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Spotify lays off ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 staff, to “rightsize” its costs, citing slow economic growth and rising capital costs, its third cut in 2023 -
Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led it to reveal training data -
Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Disinformation scholar Joan Donovan claims in a whistleblower filing that her superiors dismissed her after Harvard got Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's $500M gift -
Louis Columbus / VentureBeat: Researchers scanned public repos and found 1,681 exposed Hugging Face API tokens belonging to Meta, Microsoft, Google, and others, many with write permissions -
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, after announcing the feature in September 2020 -
Peter Martin / Bloomberg: US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says her department needs more money to stop China's chip gains and calls out Nvidia for redesigning around the US' curbs -
Reuters: Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua says US officials plan to visit Taiwan to explain the complex China AI chip rules, as Taiwan needs “on site communication” -
WABetaInfo: WhatsApp updates its iOS app to let users send photos and videos in their original quality files, start voice chats without ringing in large groups, and more -
Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country's companies to meet AI chip demand -
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: NYC-based generative AI video startup Runway partners with Getty Images on an AI video model, shipping in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising -
Financial Times: IBM announces 10 quantum computing projects, focusing mainly on areas like simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science -
The Guardian: Investigation: Russia- and China-linked hackers targeted UK nuclear site Sellafield with sleeper malware as far back as 2015; data loss extent is still unknown -
20 minutes ago Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ArmorCode, which consolidates vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure for analysis, raised a $40M Series B led by HighlandX -
Bloomberg: Sources: cloud-based call center software maker Five9 is exploring a sale and held talks with Zoom; Zoom's $14.7B takeover of Five9 fell apart in September 2021