Amazon Prime Video plans to start showing ads starting on January 29, with an option for customers to pay an additional $2.99 per month to avoid the ads
Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service …
How Apple hiring Stanford PhD Marcelo Lamego, who was CTO of Masimo sister Cercacor, in 2013 to add Watch health features sparked a fight that led to the US ban
Apple's hiring of a key engineer 10 years ago helped spark a fight that led its watch to be banned from the US.
Sources: outgoing Apple executive Tang Tan plans to join Jony Ive's LoveFrom to work on AI hardware; Sam Altman plans to provide the software underpinnings
- Design executive Tang Tan is set to leave Apple in February — Tan will join Ive's LoveFrom design studio, work on AI project
Integris Health, Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health network, confirms a November cyberattack resulting in stolen data, after patients get extortion emails
Integris Health patients in Oklahoma are receiving blackmail emails stating that their data was stolen in a cyberattack …
The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
Biden's administration declines to veto the ITC's Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 import ban over Masimo's patents; Apple asks an appeals court to halt the ban
A US appeals court pauses the ITC's ban on Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 imports due to the Masimo patent dispute, after Biden declined to veto the ban
Apple (AAPL.O) scored a victory on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission's import ban …
Filing: MicroStrategy acquired 14,620 BTC for $616M in cash, taking its total holdings to 189,150 BTC, worth $8B+, or almost 1% of the 19.58M BTC outstanding
- MicroStrategy's total Bitcoin holdings is now 189,150 coins … The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company run …
Sources: Japan is preparing regulations requiring Apple, Google, and others to allow third-party app stores and payment systems on their mobile platforms
Antitrust curbs to require tech giants to allow third-party app platforms and billing — Google and Apple both require apps …
PitchBook: Microsoft, Google, and Amazon made investments amounting to 66% of the $27B raised by generative AI startups in 2023, vastly outspending VC firms
Microsoft, Google and Amazon crowd out traditional Silicon Valley investors in blockbuster deals with AI start-ups in 2023
Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for Android, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3; sources say an iOS version should arrive soon
What's the strategy here... make OpenAI the default base AI layer, regardless of the costs? [embedded post] X: Parker Ortolani / @parkerortolani : rare instance of an app coming to Android before iOS ...
Investigation: China's Ministry of State Security intel agency uses AI and other tech to challenge the CIA; US officials describe an AI system to track US spies
The ambitious Ministry of State Security is deploying A.I. and other advanced technology to go toe-to-toe with the United States …
Researchers propose a protocol to secure AirTag against stalking while maintaining privacy; Apple revised its system to rotate device identifiers every 24 hours
Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy.
Filing: Grayscale Investments, which runs the world's largest BTC trust, says Barry Silbert resigned as chair, succeeded by Mark Shifke, and doesn't explain why
SoftBank tells T-Mobile US to issue 48.75M shares, worth ~$7.59B, to the conglomerate after the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, taking its stake from 3.75% to 7.64%
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Hollywood unions resisting AI being used to recreate actors' performances sets a precedent for future labor movements on how to push back against automation
I think this foreshadows two trends that seem inevitable — 1. An increasing trend of unionization as a worker tool to prevent job displacement by AI while fields that lack unions will see more rapid...
Microsoft tests a feature that lets Windows 11 users reinstall the OS using Windows Update, a method that preserves files, settings, and installed apps
Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest :
A look at the challenges Amazon faces in selling cars in the US: only 11% of its customers report buying $1,000+ items, dealerships sell most new cars, and more
Company aims to make online car purchases as seamless as getting everyday essentials — Willie Hall loves to browse and buy cars online, but he wants more options. Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / S...
After over a year of testing, South Korean internet giant Naver plans to let companies use its Rookie office helper robots that can deliver meals and parcels
called Rookies—wander around the offices, carrying out simple tasks such as delivering meals and parcels and testing the boundaries of human interaction with machines in one of the first examples of a...
Researchers are increasingly using the Harry Potter books to experiment with generative AI, citing the series' wide range of language data and complex wordplay
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
China's gaming regulator plans to study stakeholders' concerns to “further modify and improve” the draft rules for curbing excessive online gaming and spending
Clement Tan / CNBC :
As more high-performance computing chips pushed past 1 kW in 2023, like Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, many manufacturers adopted direct liquid cooling
Tobias Mann / The Register : Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot Forums: Hacker News : How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip Msmash / Slashdot : How Thermal Management is Ch...
Opensignal: UK 5G download speeds averaged 118.2M Mbps between August 1 and October 29, down 13% YoY, the slowest in the G7 in 2023; France averaged 221.1 Mbps
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times :
Sources: Anthropic projects $850M+ in annualized revenue by 2024's end, or $70M+/month, an increase of over 8x from its monthly revenue around September 2023
3 months ago, that estimate was $500MM. And for the ongoing raise, Menlo is using an SPV with a fee for other investors to join. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Stephen Loynd / @loyndsview : “The ...
Nielsen: YouTube's share of US viewership by 2- to 11-year-olds jumped from 29.4% in September 2021 to 33% in September 2023, while Netflix fell from 25% to 21%
Filing: xAI incorporated as a for-profit benefit corporation in November, letting the startup prioritize a positive societal impact over shareholder obligations
One of xAI's training platforms is X which he's quickly turned into a cesspool. I'm genuinely more concerned and even terrified that Musk's AI will do more damage than good. … X: James Ball / @jamesr...
China struggles to contain a shadow market for business data, as most companies shun the 48 official exchanges set up by local governments to tighten control
Financial Times :
An NHS scheme to use AI sensors in kettles and fridges to monitor ~140 discharged patients' drinking and eating patterns reduced unplanned readmissions by 77%
Laura Hughes / Financial Times :
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