The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft relies on a false belief that copyright can limit the right to read and process data
This week the NY Times somehow broke the story of... well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft. I wonder who tipped them off.
Filing: Google agrees to settle a 2020 class-action lawsuit accusing the company of tracking and tying activity in Chrome's incognito mode to users' profiles
2020 lawsuit accused Google of tracking incognito activity, tying it to users' profiles. — Google has indicated that it is ready …
Vitalik Buterin proposes requiring only 8,192 validator signatures per slot, down from 28K per slot, to make Ethereum's proof-of-stake “simpler and lighter”
The Ethereum co-founder suggested reducing validator signatures to lighten the load and make predicting future loads more accurate.
LG debuts new LG Gram and Gram Pro laptops with NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050; the Pro includes Intel's AI Boost NPU for on-device AI tasks
If you're in the market for OLED displays and better graphics, take a look at the 2024 LG Gram Pro lineup.
Microsoft disables Windows App Installer's MSIX protocol handler after it was used to spread malware, after previously disabling it in 2022 and re-enabling it
Microsoft has disabled the ms-appinstaller URI scheme handler by default in the latest version of App Installer due to a rise in cyberattacks.
A US judge sides with the SEC, ruling that Terraform broke the law by not registering four cryptocurrencies, but dismisses the SEC's security-based swap claims
A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on claims that Terraform Labs …
India seeks to block the URLs of nine offshore crypto exchanges, including Binance, Kraken, KuCoin, and Huobi, for not complying with anti-money laundering laws
The Indian Express :
Sources: for months, OpenAI has held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC about the price and terms of licensing their content
Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.
Microsoft's AI Image Creator, part of Bing and Paint, can generate realistic, violent images; Microsoft says some use the tech “in ways that were not intended”
The AI Image Creator, part of Microsoft's Bing and Windows Paint, makes extremely violent images of Joe Biden, the pope and others.
Apple stock jumped 54% in 2023 but underperformed tech peers after Apple suffered four straight quarters of declining revenue, its longest such slide since 2001
- In 2023, Apple suffered its longest revenue slide in 22 years, reporting four straight quarters of declining sales.
Filing: FirstCry, India's biggest e-commerce platform for mother and baby products, aims to raise $218M in its IPO; source: the startup wants a ~$4B valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Nvidia launches the GeForce RTX 4090 D in China, featuring ~10% fewer processing cores than the 4090 sold in other countries, to comply with US export controls
Xiaomi unveils the SU7, its first EV, saying its aim is to become a top global carmaker in 15 to 20 years, which CEO Lei Jun calls his final entrepreneurial bet
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive
There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple. Threads: @eshumarneedi , @lscottspe...
Sources: Microsoft readies a Surface Pro 10 and a Surface Laptop 6 for spring 2024, with Intel and ARM variants, improved designs, and next-gen AI PC marketing
https://www.windowscentral.com/ ... [image] Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @epro.social : Microsoft is going to hurt the Surface brand with AI gimmicks. I understand the desire to hype up a device's ne...
Seattle-based online retailer Zulily, which had a ~$7B market cap in 2014, winds down; in a December 11 lawsuit, Zulily accused Amazon of stifling its business
Weeks after laying off 800+ employees and suing Amazon … TechRadar : Former ecommerce giant Zulily shuts down PYMNTS.com : Zulily's Last Checkout: The Retail Road to Its Online Closure Pamela N. Danzi...
A look at Apple's renewed interest in Mac gaming, powered by Apple silicon, and an interview with Apple executives about Dynamic Caching, Game Mode, and more
Apple submitted a software workaround that could let the company sell non-infringing Apple Watch versions as soon as January 12, while appealing the US ITC ban
Source: Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones and other military tech, raised $300M in equity and debt at a $2.8B valuation, bringing its Series F to $500M
Defense tech startup Shield AI has expanded its latest funding round with another $300 million in equity and debt …
A Beijing court fined Alibaba ~$141M in a lawsuit brought by JD.com that alleged Alibaba's Tmall adopted monopolistic practices known as “choosing one from two”
Chinese online retailer JD.com (9618.HK) said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba (9988.HK) …
Sources: India's decision to seek the blocking of the URLs of nine foreign crypto exchanges followed a request from the Indian crypto and Web3 advocacy body
Bharat Web3 Association's (BWA) Chairman wrote the letter to the Indian government on Dec. 16. — Unmute — Register Now
Huawei says its full-year sales will be more than $99B in 2023, up 9% YoY but down 20% from a 2020 peak; Chairman Ken Hu says “we're pretty much back on track”
Edward White / Financial Times :
Immunefi: crypto users lost $1.8B in hacks and scams in 2023, down 54% YoY, as single incidents grew 90% YoY to 319; Lazarus remained the most prolific attacker
Binance CEO Richard Teng says the crypto exchange's user base grew 30% to 170M accounts in 2023; Binance Pay, Binance Earn, and Binance's P2P platform all grew
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
IVC: Israeli startups raised ~$1.5B in Q4 2023, down 15% QoQ, despite increased foreign investor participation, and ~$7B in all of 2023, vs. nearly $16B in 2022
Steven Scheer / Reuters :
Q&A with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod on selling the startup to Match Group, AI's potential, making the app less addictive, expanding to Europe, and more
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
A US judge rejects X's bid to block California's AB 587, which seeks to control toxic social media posts by requiring companies to disclose moderation policies
Bloomberg :
Margrethe Vestager says the EU's AI Act will “not harm innovation and research, but actually enhance it” as the law “creates predictability and legal certainty”
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times :
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