Apple announces contingent pricing for subscriptions, letting developers give users a discounted price if they're actively subscribed to another subscription
Apple has announced a new “contingent pricing” feature for subscriptions in the App Store. According to the company …
Experts and lawmakers say Tesla's recall is unlikely to solve the fundamental flaw of Tesla failing to limit where drivers can use Autopilot in the first place
Tesla's software update adds warnings to improve driver attention while using Autopilot — but doesn't limit where drivers can engage the technology
SenseTime says co-founder Tang Xiao'ou, who was also a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness on December 15 at age 55
Tang Xiao'ou, who also taught information engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, died of an unspecified illness, according to SenseTime.
Vera Molnar, considered the godmother of generative art for her computer-aided paintings and drawings that started in the 1960s, died on December 7 at age 99
in partnership with @martingrasser — released a series of 500 pieces entitled “Themes and Variations,” which would turn out to be some of her last work. https://deca.art/... @hellometaversal : Today, ...
A look at the race for wearable AI as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed adding GPT-4 with Vision to Snap devices
Next year's artificial intelligence battle is coming into focus—and it's all about glasses.
An interview with Tim Sweeney about Epic's win over Google and his concerns that Google will “get away with continuing their scheme” through “fake” remedies
‘Fortnite’ maker's boss Tim Sweeney hopes court will avoid ‘fake’ remedies following landmark legal win over tech giant
Tesla's Autopilot recall threatens to hurt the company's defense in six high-profile lawsuits set for 2024 over crashes linked to the driver-assistance program
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Ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleads guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3M from Nirvana Finance and an unnamed crypto exchange in July 2022
Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022.
OpenAI says ByteDance's use of its API was minimal, suspends ByteDance's account while it investigates a report that ByteDance used OpenAI's API for its own LLM
After my report was published, OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix sent the following statement confirming that ByteDance's account has been suspended:
A profile of Dr. Shih Chin-tay, who led Taiwan's foray into chip production in the 1970s after joining the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu
When 23-year-old Shih Chin-tay boarded a plane for the United States in the summer of 1969, he was flying to a different world. X: @wingcommander1 , @sarthakgh , @viv_chand , and @basuashis X: Rupert ...
Disney, WBD, and other studios are licensing more content to Netflix in return for much-needed cash, but are holding back their most popular movies and shows
When building their own streaming companies, many entertainment studios ended lucrative licensing deals with Netflix.
Just three US states enacted laws in 2023 related to the use of AI and deepfakes in political campaigns, as the federal government fails to address the issue
Amid tepid federal involvement on the issue, just three states enacted laws this year attempting to address AI's effects on political campaigns.
California drops its 2021 sexual harassment case against Activision Blizzard saying investigations haven't substantiated allegations; Activision will pay ~$54M
New York Times :
The US SEC rejects Coinbase's petition for formal digital asset rules, because the “existing securities regime appropriately governs crypto asset securities”
Exchange Responds by Taking the Regulator to Court Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel / crypto.news : SEC chair, lawmakers are ‘gaslighting,’ CryptoLaw founder says Maxwell Mutuma / CoinGape : Coinbase CEO Sees S...
Robinhood received ~$1.1B in account transfers since it began offering a 1% match on transferred brokerage accounts on October 23, with 150+ transfers of $1M+
Trading app receives $1.1 billion in account transfers since offering 1% match — Robinhood Markets , known for a clientele …
Researchers: Microsoft Copilot answers some political queries in the US and other countries with conspiracies, misinformation, and out-of-date or incorrect info
David Gilbert / Wired :
How Spamouflage Dragon, China's largest disinformation campaign per Google and Meta, infiltrates platforms to promote Chinese policies and criticize dissidents
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As TikTok rolls out its new Creativity Program Beta, some creators say they're frustrated by its push to become a “mini YouTube” with videos of up to 15 minutes
New York CNN — — When TikTok took off in 2020 — with short dancing or comedy clips providing much-needed entertainment … See also Mediagazer
Polygon Labs discontinues contributions to Edge, the OSS used for Dogechain, and shifts towards the Polygon CDK, which is powered by zero-knowledge cryptography
Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk :
CGIGC: China's video games market returned to growth in 2023 with domestic revenue up 13% YoY to ~$42.6B and the number of gamers up 0.61% YoY to a record 668M
Josh Ye / Reuters :
An interview with Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on the lack of resources for academic AI, Silicon Valley's “bro” culture, keeping AI safe for humanity, and more
George Hammond / Financial Times : X: @shawncp92 , @pdh_metaverse , @broadreachltd , @pdh_metaverse , @professorfengli , and @anastasiabekt X: Shawn Pasternak / @shawncp92 : “It was humbling to reali...
Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability
including by trying every obvious solution out there— on several occasions. If the problem were easy to solve, it would have been solved by now. The reason we bring up the problem in a public forum ...
Memo: Weibo sent notices warning users to “avoid expressing pessimism about the economy” and “avoid crossing the red lines” around economic or financial topics
Bloomberg : X: @haifeng_huang and @wexler . LinkedIn: Ethan Tan X: H. Huang / @haifeng_huang : From the global coordination games' perspective, such a policy signals stress without raising the agents...
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