Salesforce says online Black Friday sales hit $74.4B globally, up 5% YoY, and $17.5B in the US, up 7% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $10.8B, up 10.2% YoY
The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $33.6 billion spent globally online on the day — looks like it continued into Black Friday, with a bang.
Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's for-profit transition, alleging that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, and more
Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders …
Ethereum is grappling with uncertainties as its reliance on Layer-2 blockchains grows, leading to lower fee collection, while rivals like Solana gain ground
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Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has now raised $750M+ in crowdfunding, and its single-player spin-off Squadron 42 won't be out until 2026
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Bluesky now requires parody or fan accounts to label themselves as such after a researcher found 44% of its 100 most-followed accounts have a doppelganger
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Salesforce says global online Thanksgiving day sales hit $33.6B, up 6% YoY, and $8.1B in the US, up 8% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $6.1B, up ~9% YoY
Do Not Buy From These Websites Nick Wingfield / The Information : Black Friday Sales Jump Over 10% China.org.cn : Salesforce says 33.6 bln USD spent online globally on Thanksgiving Day KXAN-TV : Small...
Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill”
For reasons you can guess at, debanking has been the topic du jour in my Twitter feed. Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News : FinTech CEOs Expose How Feds Colluded In ‘Debanking’ Schemes After Andreessen ‘Op...
OpenAI says it plans to build data centers in parts of the US Midwest and Southwest; sources: OpenAI is spending $5B+ a year and is “not close to breaking even”
ChatGPT-maker aims for big boost from new AI products, Apple partnership and infrastructure investment
A look at Death Clock, an app that claims to predict a user's likely date of death by using an AI model trained on a dataset of 1,200+ life expectancy studies
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Some UK policymakers worry about Elon Musk complicating UK-US ties, as his diatribes against the Labour government extend well beyond tech and free speech
A London-based VC has connected Boris Johnson and the Tesla chief, who Tony Blair has praised as ‘an extraordinary innovator’ Bluesky: @edwardluce , @pickardje , and @bondhack X: @xdaily , @maxtempers...
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages
Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists. Bluesky: @paulallison . LinkedIn: Michael Running Wolf Bluesky: Paul Allison / @p...
A look at AI-enabled dashcam tech being developed by Samsara, Motive, Nauto, and others to detect fatigue and deliver real-time audio alerts to drowsy drivers
Innovative tech detects driver fatigue and signals them to take a break — Willie Jones covers transportation for IEEE Spectrum … Mastodon: @qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social . X: @brainify78 . LinkedIn: Ev...
Baidu receives a license to test its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Hong Kong, Baidu's first known permit for autonomous vehicle testing outside mainland China
A profile of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, who made a highly risky bet to acquire debt-ridden Hynix in 2012 to form SK Hynix, which is now valued at ~$80B
The race to win the AI chip market is akin to Squid Game, quipped an industry insider during a lunch meeting recently. It's intense. X: @business X: @business : SK Group Chairman Tony Chey bet big on...
A look at the DOJ's proposed remedies in the Google Search antitrust case, and why forcing a sale of Chrome might not be biggest threat to Google's power
Similarly, Apple's anticompetitive behavior has been obvious for years. Eventually, the wheels of justice will catch up with them too. Mastodon: Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe@mas.to : If you're interested ...
Report: Russia arrested notorious cybercriminal Mikhail Matveev for developing malware and running hacking groups; US DOJ filed charges against him in 2023
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Data shows India's UPI recorded 10B+ merchant transactions in October 2024, up 53% YoY, while credit cards saw a 35% YoY increase in transactions to 433M
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How Tony Sayegh, head of public affairs at a major TikTok investor and an official in the first Trump admin, led the effort to win Trump's support for TikTok
A profile of Tony Sayegh and How TikTok's Trump Whisperer Changed Minds in Washington www.wsj.com/business/how... X: @wsjbusiness : Tony Sayegh, the head of public affairs at one of TikTok's biggest i...
How the UK, Australia, the US, South Korea, and the EU are dealing with explicit AI deepfakes, as legislation around the world remains largely untested
Omny Miranda Martone was not surprised when computer-generated images and videos purporting to show their naked body started to appear on social media in January. X: @postdiscipline and @ft X: Rakesh ...
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia says generative AI tools have helped it lower frauds by 30% and reduce call center customer wait times by 40% in 2024
“The technology helped lower frauds by 30% and its AI messaging app trimmed call center customer wait times by 40% this year.” — AI Cuts Scam Losses, Speeds Up Home Loans at Top Australia Bank — w...
Google, which joined the Open Cloud Coalition, denies its offer of €100M+ in incentives to CISPE was linked to CISPE's antitrust complaint against Microsoft
Paul Kunert / The Register : Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft
MicroStrategy is now the largest corporate holder of bitcoins, owning ~2% of them, and its stock is up 450%+ this year, as its risky bitcoin strategy continues
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