OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets”
A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora. They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.
Sony says it has sold 160M+ PlayStation 2 units globally since its 2000 launch, the highest-selling console of all time, followed by the Nintendo DS and Switch
It's the highest-selling console of all time. — In honor of the PlayStation's 30th anniversary, Sony has launched …
Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed mobile OS that reportedly doesn't use open-source Android code
Huawei on Tuesday launched the Mate 70 series of smartphones that can run on the company's latest self-developed operating system …
A group published a Hugging Face project that let anyone generate videos using OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls the company's duplicity and “art washing”
non-beta testers could try it for three hours Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / Silicon Republic : OpenAI's Sora reportedly leaked by protesting artists Stefanie Schappert / Cybernews.com : Creative artists...
Bluesky says it's up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a 1M-post dataset from Bluesky's API for ML research
Update: Following the publication of this article on Tuesday evening, van Strien removed the dataset.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 review: the new $45+ module is a compact Pi 5 with more power than a CM4, but whose cooling fan doesn't work with a passive cooler
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US appeals court: the OFAC exceeded its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts, as they aren't property because they cannot be owned
A US appeals court ruled the Treasury's OFAC “overstepped” when it sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash's smart contracts.
IDC expects global smartphone shipments to grow 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, due to Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 6.2% year-over-year in 2024 to 1.24 billion units, according …
TikTok plans to block under-18s from using beauty filters, amid mental health concerns, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13s from the app
Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up
Sources: Elon Musk's xAI plans to debut a consumer app as soon as December; the startup built its Colossus data center, which uses 100K Nvidia GPUs, in 122 days
The Tesla CEO is racing to make xAI, which launched after its competitors, the world's most advanced AI company
A look at the evolution of China's chip industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs have become the new focal point of US-China tech competition
Paul Triolo / American Affairs Journal :
Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles for tone and length, aiming to personalize its replies, following similar ChatGPT and Gemini features
Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks.
Cloudflare says it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug on November 14; Cloudflare sends ~4.5T logs to customers daily
Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug …
Sources: Elon Musk has given investors who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation
Investors hit by losses following billionaire's takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up
Samsung names Jun Young-hyun as its co-CEO as well as head of its memory chip business and appoints Han Jin-man as president and head of its foundry business
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Wednesday announced new heads of its memory and foundry chip units, as it scrambles to catch up with SK Hynix …
Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of RSUs until December 24 in a tender offer to SoftBank, a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son
OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.
Investigation: a third suspect behind the Snowflake client hacks, hacker Kiberphant0m, may be a US Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea
Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake …
Sources: investigators suspect Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 dragged its anchor for 100+ miles to sever two Baltic internet cables, possibly at the behest of Russia
NATO warships surround Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier at the center of an international probe into suspected sabotage Bluesky: @martinsfp.bsky.social . X: @auonsson , @airassets , @brianhioe , @tho...
Singapore is deploying more self-driving buses, freight vehicles, and street sweepers to address labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently
The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently.
Amsterdam-based Just Eat plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange on December 27, due to its shares' low liquidity, shifting to just an Amsterdam listing
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg :
Analysis: Elon Musk posted about Trump's cabinet picks 70+ times from November 7 to 20 to promote his preferred candidates; Trump picked others in several cases
Billionaire Elon Musk has been using his social media platform X to go to bat for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks …
Chinese self-driving company Pony.AI raised $413.4B in its US IPO, after pricing shares at $13, which rose 19% at open, giving it a nearly $5.4B market cap
- IPO priced at top of marketed range raised $260 million — Firm also agreed private placements worth $153.4 million
Italy, Europol, and others say they dismantled a pirate streaming service that redistributed IPTV, Sky, DAZN, and more to 22M+ users, making €250M+ per month
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide …
The FCC approves a license for SpaceX and T-Mobile to use Starlink for supplemental telco coverage from space in a bid to extend internet access to remote areas
Federal Communications Commission DA 24-1193 Before the Federal Communications … Mariella Moon / Engadget : T-Mobile and SpaceX's satellite-to-phone service gets FCC approval Ayomide Sadiq / TalkAndro...
X files an objection to including X accounts belonging or related to Infowars in the outlet's bankruptcy auction, arguing it has ownership of all X accounts
including in bankruptcy—without his leave. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/ gov.us... [image] @fraying.bsky.social : Stipulated that Musk and Jones are the fucking worst, but yeah, you have never own...
A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A
and What Trump Must Do About It James Morales / CCN.com : UK Competition Watchdog Vows no ‘Blanket Rules’ for Big Tech Regulation X: Casey Handmer, PhD / @cjhandmer : Hard to believe that any serious ...
US police in California, Colorado, and Indiana are testing Draft One, Axon's AI tool that generates police reports from Axon's bodycam audio, with 75 officers
With law enforcement focused on reducing crime rates and budget pressures, while recruiting and retaining staff …
Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company expects any impact of Trump's new tariffs to hit it less than its rivals, citing its global manufacturing footprint
Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters :
Game console makers rethink selling more powerful machines, as performance improvements become less dramatic and consumers can't tell between 4K and 8K graphics
Bloomberg :
Roblox now offers 25% more Robux when users buy on the web or via gift cards than when they make an in-app purchase via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Kraken says it is shutting down its NFT marketplace almost two years after launching the service
The NFT fad was definitely an “emperor is wearing no clothes” moment in tech. X: @roundtablespace : KRAKEN'S NFT MARKETPLACE FADEOUT Kraken's ditching its NFT marketplace, starting Nov. 27, 2024, no m...
An analysis finds over 54% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated; LinkedIn says it doesn't track how many posts are created by AI
Scathing review of LinkedIn, imo. [embedded post] @gohor.se : I suspect an analysis will eventually find that 95%+ of “longer English-language posts” on LinkedIn are only used to train AI models. [e...
HP reports Q4 revenue up 1.7% YoY to $14.1B, Personal Systems revenue up 2% to $9.59B vs. $9.74B est., forecasts Q1 profit below est.; HPQ drops 7%+
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $1.01B, above $982.8M est., a $16.8M net loss, vs. a $26.7M net income in Q3 2023, and raises its FY 2025 outlook
They were right—higher-than-expected revenue, an improved Q4 outlook, and a 97% retention rate. That's true market power. X: Beth Kindig / @beth_kindig : CrowdStrike $CRWD topped the $1 billion quart...
Evolv reaches an agreement to resolve an FTC inquiry alleging the company made false claims about its AI-powered security system's ability to screen for weapons
Stephen Nakrosis / Wall Street Journal :
Wherobots, which offers a cloud-based platform to process and analyze geospatial data from satellites and other sources, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune :
South Korea says it will bolster its domestic chipmakers in 2025 with $10.2B in support including loans, citing potential economic uncertainty under Trump
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
Study: ~85% of US unicorn startups that have gone public were unprofitable in 2023, despite most having been founded 15+ years ago, as cumulative losses balloon
Jeffrey Funk / American Affairs Journal :
Luma Partners: in Q3, M&A volume in ad tech rose 118% YoY and 26% QoQ and has continued to heat up in Q4 with Samba TV-Semasio, Zeta-LiveIntent, and other deals
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