Sources: Sam Altman's move to Microsoft is not a done deal; he and Brockman are open to returning to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him resign
Sam Altman's surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn't a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman …
Ilya Sutskever and over 700 out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman
- Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories
Satya Nadella says “it's very clear that something has to change around the governance” of OpenAI no matter where Sam Altman ends up
These are fundamentally incompatible and it was bound to lead to hard tradeoffs eventually. … X: Emily Chang / @emilychangtv : The more I watch this interview - the wilder this story seems. Satya insi...
Texas' AG, “troubled” by Elon Musk's claims, probes Media Matters, which calls X's suit “frivolous”; X avoids anti-SLAPP statutes by filing in the 5th Circuit
X, formerly Twitter, has followed through with owner Elon Musk's threat to sue the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters.
Source: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about a potential merger as part of an effort to persuade Amodei to replace Sam Altman as CEO
OpenAI's board of directors approached Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of rival large-language model developer Anthropic …
Sources: 97%+ of OpenAI staff have signed the letter threatening to quit in board standoff; investors explore legal measures to force board to reverse course
More than 95% of employees have threatened to quit and join Microsoft if board refuses to resign
Epic v. Google: a Google exec confirms that Spotify pays no commission when users buy subscriptions via Spotify's payment system and 4% when they pay via Google
Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments …
X files a defamation lawsuit against Media Matters, claiming the outlet “knowingly and maliciously” misrepresented the amount of antisemitic content on X
I wonder which advertisers she expects to be gullible enough to fall for this? — [image] Bluesky: Danilo / @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com : Cannot WAIT for the discovery on this one [embedded post] X: ...
Microsoft isn't a clear winner in OpenAI chaos, as its ~$11B investment is in danger, building AI systems has reputational risks, and talent might not stay
Matthew Prince / @eastdakota :
In a lawsuit, the US SEC accuses Kraken of commingling customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency, and dealer
The U.S. crypto exchange is the latest targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a series of similar actions being fought in court by other companies.
OpenAI's new interim CEO Emmett Shear has made some head-turning posts on X, from slowing down AI development to theories about women having rape fantasies
and likened working for Microsoft to selling his soul Matthew Loh / Business Insider : Both the CEO of OpenAI and the biggest investor of OpenAI still don't seem to know why Sam Altman was fired CoinG...
Media Matters' claims that some companies' ads appeared next to antisemitic content do not seem to be “manufactured”, contrary to what X alleges in its suit
including Texas — anti-SLAPP statutes do not apply in federal court even to state claims. The Ninth Circuit — where X has its principal place of business - applies anti-SLAPP statutes. … X: Joan Dono...
Sources: OpenAI's board offered the interim CEO role to former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Scale AI CEO Alex Wang, before Emmett Shear accepted
Before Emmett Shear accepted the Interim CEO role at OpenAI, the board offered it to Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub …
YouTube confirms that “users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing”, after users reported five-second delays on non-Chrome browsers
- Users are reportedly seeing a five-second delay when loading YouTube videos in non-Chrome browsers …
Filings: Tether deposited $1B+ with Britannia Financial, founded by a Tory donor later charged by the US with bribery, a rare look at its banking relationships
Funds from the world's largest stablecoin issuer are at the centre of a High Court battle — Tether deposited more than $1bn …
A profile of Sam Altman, the AI industry's de facto ambassador despite lacking a scientific background; a source says “his superpower is getting people on side”
Financial Times :
Epic v. Google: Tim Sweeney says Android is a “fake open platform”; under cross-examination, Sweeney admitted to paying a 30% cut to Sony, Xbox, and Nintendo
- Fortnite maker's CEO testifies at high-stakes antitrust trial — Google has denied abusing power in app distribution market
Palantir and Accenture win a £480M NHS contract to overhaul the UK's patient data system; some worry about privacy as patients can't opt out of data sharing
- Platform will help hospitals detect patterns in medical data — Palantir's software managed UK's Covid vaccine rollout
Q&A with Del Harvey, who led Twitter's trust and safety team for 13 years until 2021, on the X rebrand, her role, Gamergate, Donald Trump, January 6, and more
From Israel vs. Hamas threats to Donald Trump's “wild” posts, Del Harvey helped make the platform's hardest content moderation calls for 13 years. Mastodon: @anildash@me.dm , @aulia@octodon.social , @...
CISA debuts a pilot program offering “cybersecurity shared services” to non-federal critical infrastructure entities in healthcare, education, and other sectors
The U.S. government is offering “cutting-edge cybersecurity shared services” to critical infrastructure organizations that need it most.
Broadcom plans to close its $69B VMware acquisition on November 22, after receiving approval from Chinese regulators, which added new restrictions
Broadcom (AVGO.O) said it planned to close its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing firm VMWare (VMW.N) on Wednesday …
Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP
MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @anujbhuwania , @vakash...
The White House launches accounts on Threads for Joe Biden, his campaign, Kamala Harris, FLOTUS, and others; the White House says the move is not related to X
Maria Curi / Axios :
Sources: the US DOJ seeks $4B+ from Binance as part of a proposed resolution of a years-long probe; CZ would still potentially face criminal charges in the US
The US Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenas the CEOs of X, Discord, and Snap to testify at a hearing on children's online safety on December 6
expects their CEOs will agree to testify voluntarily. Senator Dick Durbin / @senatordurbin : We promised Big Tech that they'd have their chance to explain their failures to protect kids. Now's that ch...
Both the US and China see advanced chip packaging, once an afterthought, as a path to higher performance; Intel says the US has just 3% of global capacity
The emerging field of advanced packaging is being hailed as an inflection point for the semiconductor industry. China is moving in on the same arena.
Amazon Prime Video plans “shoppable ads” where viewers can scan QR codes for instant purchases, during NFL's first-ever “Black Friday” game, which it's carrying
E-commerce giant to feature exclusive deals, QR codes during NFL game to spur more purchases
The UK Supreme Court says Deliveroo riders aren't entitled to collective bargaining, rejecting a claim by the IWGB, which has lodged multiple appeals since 2017
Sam Tobin / Reuters :
Source: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao may step down from Binance as part of a $4B settlement between Binance, the DOJ, and the CFTC; the SEC is not participating
David Jeans / Forbes :
Analysis: X's Community Notes operate slowly and inconsistently during the Israel-Hamas war; across nearly 400 posts, a typical Note took seven hours to appear
In late September, Elon Musk wrote on X that he hoped “people around the world engage in citizen journalism …
Marc Benioff says Salesforce will provide matching compensation to any researcher who has quit OpenAI and joins Salesforce's Einstein Trusted AI research team
Ben Purvis / Bloomberg :
Meta releases its Content Library and an API, letting select researchers more easily access non-downloadable data via a virtual “clean room”, after a beta
Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review :
Cruise co-founder and Chief Product Officer Daniel Kan resigns, a day after CEO Kyle Vogt quit
Sources: TSMC plans to build a manufacturing plant in the Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, its third in the country, to develop advanced 3nm chips
Bloomberg :
Tel Aviv-based generative AI startup AI21 raised a $53M Series C extension from Intel, Comcast, and others, taking the round to $208M and total raised to $336M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series review: vastly superior to the 3000 series, and the 7980X is better and cheaper than Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeon W9-3495X
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech :
Baidu reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$4.8B and a ~$940M net income, both above est., as its new AI tools shield the company from China's economic downturn
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Amazon launches AI Ready, a program with free AI classes that aims to train at least 2M people by 2025 on basic to advanced AI skills
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.12B est., enterprise revenue up 7.5% to $661M, above estimates, and enterprise customers up 5% to 219,700
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
IVC: in October 2023, VCs invested ~$325M in Israel across 120 deals, down from $1B across 232 deals in September 2023; sources blame the Israel-Hamas war
Financial Times :
Chinese game streaming firm DouYu says police arrested founder Chen Shaojie on unspecified charges on or around November 16, confirming reports; DOYU drops 7%+
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Trump Media & Technology sues 20 media outlets, demanding $1.5B in damages, for reporting that Truth Social lost $73M, calling the number “an utter fabrication”
Robert Burnson / Bloomberg : Mastodon: @xerophile@union.place See also Mediagazer Mastodon: @xerophile@union.place : @Techmeme Big day for rich SLAPPers! See also Mediagazer
An interview with Carl Pei and lead designers at Nothing, which marked its third anniversary in October, on the design process, US' smartphone market, and more
James Pero / Inverse : Forums: r/NothingTech Forums: r/NothingTech : Nothing's Carl Pei Explains Why Your Phone Is So Boring and Why Innovating Is Damn Near Impossible
Lyon-based Indy, which offers freelancers an all-in-one platform for accounting, business creation, and more, raised a €40M Series C led by BlackFin Capital
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
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