Filing: US prosecutors have decided not to pursue a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, as much of the evidence was already presented at the first trial
U.S. prosecutors said on Friday they do not plan to proceed with a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted …
Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, three days after its Android launch
Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke … Threads: @carnage4life and @thebrianpenny Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop , @ar...
Sources: US intelligence determined that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US in January and February 2023 used a US ISP to communicate with China
An American intelligence assessment found that the balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.
Researchers: hackers are abusing Google OAuth endpoint “MultiLogin” to restore expired authentication cookies and log into accounts even after a password reset
Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named “MultiLogin” …
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen says he mistakenly used bogus legal citations from Google Bard in a motion seeking an early end to court supervision
“The revelation could have serious implications for the Manhattan criminal case against #Trump, in which #MichaelCohen is expected to serve as the star witness. The former president's lawyers have lo...
After a 33% plunge in 2022, the Nasdaq finished 2023 up 43%, its best year since 2020, led by Nvidia, which soared 239%, and Meta, which jumped almost 200%
up almost 200% in 2023 Zuckerberg's “year of efficiency” delivered [image] LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski : Tech stocks in 2023, sorted by market cap
Apple was up ~50% in 2023 but underperformed its tech peers after Apple suffered four straight quarters of declining revenue, its longest such slide since 2001
A look at Australia's maturing tech sector, which faces challenges like a shortage of late-stage capital and a scarcity of executives with scaling experience
The country has punched above its weight on a global scale for years. Can it attract the funding and talent, and become inclusive enough, to play at the top? X: @rebeccabellan , @rebeccabellan , and ...
How some authors are embracing ChatGPT and other chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit, a writer's “muse”
What happens to literature when writers embrace A.I. as their muse? — The robots of literature and movies usually present either an existential danger or an erotic frisson. Threads: @lalatellsastory...
The UK's NHS deploys an AI stethoscope from Mayo Clinic spinoff Eko in 200 GP surgeries to detect heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and valvular heart disease
Rollout of stethoscope with pioneering technology could save lives and ease the strain on the NHS X: @ft , @mihir_kelshiker , @subhaan_siddiq , @mihir_kelshiker , @mihir_kelshiker , and @mihir_kelshik...
Microsoft disables Windows App Installer's ms-appinstaller after the URI scheme was used to spread malware; Microsoft disabled and re-enabled the scheme in 2022
While I was there this was used to deliver malware and had no basic security thought put into it, so they disabled the feature. — After I left they reenabled it, it got misused for malware again (su...
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
what a shame! I swear, these companies — Meta, Spotify, and Epic come to mind — are the whiniest bastards ever. In a hypothetical situation where Meta made its own phone and Apple wanted to create a...
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
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
In this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") … Cristian Lipciuc / CryptoPotato : Terraform Labs Sold Unregistered Securities, Says Judge Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Is the SEC trying t...
GitHub launches GPT-4-powered Copilot Chat in general availability for all users, in the sidebar of Microsoft's IDEs, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
People's Bank of China lists Ant Group's Alipay as having no controller, as Ant finished removing controlling stakeholders almost a year after Jack Ma's promise
The bank now lists Ant's Alipay as a firm without an actual controller. — Ma, co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. …
A profile of Joe Kiani, whose company Masimo spent ~$100M suing Apple, as some say his aggressive use of the US patent system stymies the innovation of others
Joe Kiani has taken on Apple in a patent dispute that has cost his company millions of dollars to pursue. So far he is winning, but the fight isn't over.
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
Amrita Khalid / The Verge :
Sources: OpenAI recently topped $1.6B in annualized revenue, up from $1.3B in mid-October; some OpenAI leaders believe OpenAI can reach a $5B ARR by 2024's end
OpenAI recently topped $1.6 billion in annualized revenue on strong growth from its ChatGPT product, up from $1.3 billion as of mid-October … X: @amir X: Amir Efrati / @amir : News: OpenAI leaders hav...
How Figma is adding AI into its products, including launching FigJam AI in public beta in November to help improve meetings with summaries, next steps, and more
By now, we've all heard the worries about artificial intelligence replacing workers and laying siege to entire industries (if not the world at large). LinkedIn: Ryan J. McCarthy LinkedIn: Ryan J. McCa...
A look at Chinese startup SEIDA, which claims to be developing optical proximity correction chip design software to help China become self-reliant in chip tech
acronyms to know. Excellent investigative report that illustrates the dynamics of semiconductor technology competition. I'm proud of the substantive contribution that @datenna made to this article by ...
Sources: BuzzFeed is close to selling most of Complex Networks to livestream shopping startup Ntwrk for a little above $100M, far below Jonah Peretti's target
below the $150 million it was initially seeking. The deal won't solve all of BuzzFeed's financial problems. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ... See also Mediagazer
Lidar sensor tech is the latest flashpoint in the US-China trade war, as the US lidar industry mounts a lobbying offensive against Chinese companies like Hesai
Tanya Snyder / Politico : X: @tsnyderdc , @tsnyderdc , @dunne_insights , @tsnyderdc , and @tsnyderdc X: Tanya Snyder / @tsnyderdc : @ousterlidar @HesaiTech Ouster says lidar made by adversary nations...
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
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
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