Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the “benefit of humanity” over profits
OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries
Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news feature in the US and Australia, part of a broader shift away from the category for the social media giant.
Source: Embracer plans to sell its subsidiary Saber Interactive to private investors in a $500M deal, making Saber a privately-owned company with ~3,500 staff
Saber will continue developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB will sell …
Filing: Elon Musk says OpenAI is “not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft” and claims GPT-4 constitutes an AGI
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers …
After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU, which will continue to be built on WebKit and its security architecture
Last month, Apple confirmed that iOS 17.4 would remove support for Home Screen web apps in the European Union.
Google confirms it is blocking rooted Android phones from using RCS, citing the need to abide by the RCS standard's “operating measures” to stop spam and abuse
In recent weeks, Android users with rooted or bootloader unlocked phones have found that RCS in Google Messages does not work.
Elon Musk might be suing OpenAI because he is a troll and has a grudge but his lawsuit puts a spotlight on the empty humanitarian posturing by AI businesses
Too many AI startups have seen their noble goals imperiled by Big Tech's gravitational pull. — Call it an epic troll by Elon Musk …
Australia's PM threatens action against Meta after it said it would stop paying media companies; News Corp says it threatens the viability of small media groups
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A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to Meta, as part of Meta's ongoing litigation to protect WhatsApp
Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta's messaging app of spying on 1,400 users over a two-week period
In a hearing, a federal judge sounded skeptical of X's claims in its lawsuit against CCDH; an expert says it is “a SLAPP suit disguised as a contractual suit”
X alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate cost it millions by showing that hate speech was spreading on the platform.
Google pulls 12+ popular apps from the Play Store in India for persistently not complying with billing policies, escalating a three-year dispute in the country
Google pulled more than a dozen popular apps including recruitment platform Naukri, matrimony service Shaadi …
Apple says users and a number of government agencies in the EU raised concerns about the security risks of allowing app sideloading on iOS to comply with DMA
A number of government agencies in the European Union and elsewhere have voiced concerns about security risks as Apple (AAPL.O) …
Microsoft launches Copilot for Finance in public preview, helping users reconcile data in Excel, speed up the collections process in Outlook, and more
https://www.cnbc.com/... X: Yusuf Mehdi / @yusuf_i_mehdi : Starting today, we introduce plugins from your favorite apps like @OpenTable, @Shopify, and @KAYAK, as well as new skills to simplify your ta...
An investigation into ClothOff, an app being used to make deepfake porn images of underage girls, finds a brother and sister in Belarus are linked to the app
Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated nonconsensual images of underage girls around the world
Dell reports Q4 revenue down 11% YoY to $22.3B, vs. $22.2B est., Client revenue down 12% to $11.7B, and Infrastructure revenue down 6% to $9.3B; DELL jumps 15%+
and lifting Nvidia, AMD shares O'Ryan Johnson / CRN : Dell COO Jeff Clarke Says 2024 'Didn't Go As Planned' But Expects AI-Fueled Rebound Thurrott : Dell Records Double-Digit Revenue Declines in Lates...
Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month for $9.99 per month
After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 per month option …
Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that creates a realistic talking or singing video from a portrait photo and an audio file
https://lnkd.in/... EMO is a framework for generating expressive portrait videos from a single reference image and vocal audio under weak conditions. … Bohdan Zabawskyj : The Institute for Intelligen...
Robotics startup Figure AI confirms raising $675M at a $2.6B valuation and is partnering with OpenAI to “develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots”
we're collaborating with @Figure_robot to expand our multimodal models to robotic perception, reasoning, and interaction. https://www.prnewswire.com/... Adam Cochran / @adamscochran : ChatGPT with arm...
HPE reports Q1 revenue down 14% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $7.1B est., Server revenue down 23% YoY to $3.4B, and reduces its FY 2024 outlook for sales growth and profit
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Change Healthcare confirms that the ransomware group BlackCat is behind the ongoing attack that has caused widespread disruptions to pharmacies across the US
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
BBC Studios buys British broadcaster ITV's 50% stake in streamer BritBox International for £255M, as ITV focuses on its ad-funded streaming service ITVX
Naman Ramachandran / Variety :
The data center industry is struggling to meet its self-imposed sustainability goals as AI's booming growth increases electricity demand and strains power grids
https://www.nytimes.com/... … X: @nagasravika : Insightful. As applications of AI increase, so does the need for large capacity data centers. Keeping them always on with large volume of electricity is...
Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video doorbells sold by Chinese company Aiwit under various brand names on Amazon, Shein, Temu, and other sites
EA plans to cut 5% of its workforce, part of a plan that includes reducing office space and sunsetting some games; EA employed 13,400 workers as of March 2023
JFrog finds ~100 malicious PyTorch and Tensorflow Keras models on Hugging Face, some of which can execute code on users' machines to give attackers a backdoor
GitHub enables push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental leaks of secrets, like access tokens and API keys, when pushing code
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Google adds Photomath, which solves math problems after users take photos, to its Play Store and App Store publisher accounts, after buying the app in May 2022
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Source: late last year, Google suggested Meta partner on Android XR, a new software platform for VR and AR, but Meta executives decided against a partnership
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information :
Canada's antitrust watchdog expands its four-year probe into Google's online ad practices, with a focus on whether the company engages in predatory pricing
A eulogy for TinyLetter, as Mailchimp shuts down the newsletter tool acquired in 2011 that had a brief run nurturing great personal writing on the internet
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Email: GM told Cruise employees that a third party had estimated the self-driving unit's internal share price at $11.80, down from $24.27 just one quarter ago
Greg Bensinger / Reuters : Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars : GM's Cruise valuation slashed by more than half
A review of court records shows US federal investigators used push alert tokens in at least four cases to arrest suspects in cases related to CSAM and murder
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