Letter: Meta urges California's AG to stop OpenAI's for-profit transition, says Musk is “qualified” to “represent the interests of Californians in this matter”
Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit Mark Zuckerberg's company …
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who accused the company of copyright violations in October, was found dead by suicide on November 26 in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — A former OpenAI researcher known for whistleblowing the blockbuster artificial intelligence company facing …
A US appeals court declines to temporarily block a ban on TikTok; TikTok had indicated it would ask SCOTUS to step in on an emergency basis to block the law
A federal appeals court on Friday declined to temporarily block a ban on TikTok, teeing up a showdown at the Supreme Court over whether …
MicroStrategy, Palantir, and Axon will join the Nasdaq 100 index, effective before the market open on December 23; Super Micro will be removed from the index
MicroStrategy, the preferred high beta play on the price of bitcoin, will join the Nasdaq 100 index, a move that could further increase demand …
In a blog post, OpenAI says “You can't sue your way to AGI”, and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit
Musk is also the founder of xAI, an OpenAI rival. — The current suit, filed in August, is the successor …
During his NeurIPS talk, Ilya Sutskever says “Pre-training as we know it will end”, as “we've achieved peak data and there'll be no more”
OpenAI's cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left start …
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla …
Justin Sun's BiT Global, which became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product
- Justin Sun's BiT Global is suing Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product. — In August, BitGo named BiT Global …
Evinced, which helps companies build accessible websites and apps, raised a $55M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $112M
Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen.
OpenAI launches Projects, a ChatGPT feature to organize files and chats into folders, now available to Plus, Pro, and Team users and “soon” to free users
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 7 Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI adds project organization features to ChatGPT Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : OpenAI Expands ChatGPT with Projects for Smarter AI Ta...
Report: Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at 2024's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect
That's because the USB type C port will be required by law and those two versions don't have one. — https://9to5mac.com/... … X: Benjamin Mayo / @bzamayo : This is doing unsuspecting EU consumers a ...
The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely suggested the BBC had published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself
The search engine's AI-generated responses also said geologists recommend humans eat one rock per day. Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : ‘Luigi Mangione shoots himself’ — ‘Netanyahu arrested’ — These...
xAI begins rolling out an upgraded version of Grok-2 that is “three times faster” to all X users, adds a “Grok button” to X posts, and reduces API pricing
XAI, Elon Musk's AI company, may be embroiled in an escalating lawsuit with OpenAI.
A look at opposing VC models of Benchmark, which maintains its traditional small-scale approach, and Andreessen Horowitz, which pursues aggressive expansion
Three decades ago, five men formed a venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley with a simple pitch: Small is beautiful.
How Viam, founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz, helps companies make anything “smart”, including pizza buffets and bathroom lines
Entrepreneur Eliot Horowitz, who founded $22 billion database company MongoDB, is betting on artificial intelligence in the physical world LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette :...
Elon Musk says the US SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after its Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or face numerous charges
www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/ 2... Elizabeth Lopatto / @lopatto : Musk also asked his AI, Grok, to draw a picture of Gensler. The image depicted a snail in a business suit, seemingly a reference to Ga...
Duolingo has bucked the post-pandemic blues in edtech, with its stock price up over 300% from its 2021 IPO price of $102, giving the company a ~$15B market cap
The language learning app sees big growth opportunities ahead — Education technology companies became sought after properties during …
The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly making $88M+ via fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from April 2017 to March 2023
Jonathan Greig / The Record :
Cantor Fitzgerald settles US SEC charges for $6.75M over disclosures before its SPACs merged with smart glass maker View and geospatial data company Satellogic
Cantor's CEO, Howard Lutnick, is Cheesus' nominee for the Commerce Dept, because crooks stick together. David Lazarus / @davidlaz : Yet another Trump associate in trouble with the law www.cnbc.com/202...
Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries
HANOI — Southeast Asian nations are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries.
A look at Dell's evolution under Michael Dell, who has transitioned the company from a nostalgic mid-90s PC maker into a leading AI infrastructure provider
The man who founded Dell in a Texas dorm room has transformed his company. It's not just about PCs anymore. LinkedIn: Nicolai Tangen LinkedIn: Nicolai Tangen : Great article about Michael Dell in tod...
Tinder warns of declining to flat direct revenue through 2026, below estimates, and says it plans to prioritize improving its user experience over monetization
now it's trying everything, including AI, to hold onto its paying users Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : tech company has crazy idea. Analysts say “company is insane” and “they demand the app cos...
Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian, who was allegedly dismissed for “serious misconduct”, is a co-author of one of two papers chosen for the NeurIPS Best Paper Award
And then a friend sent me this article. Fitting. — www.wired.com/story/byteda... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler : lol: TikTok intern sabotages colleagues' use of an AI computing cluster at Bytedance...
Japanese chipmaker Kioxia's dramatic valuation drop from $18B in 2018 to $5.1B in its upcoming IPO is due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals
Kioxia is going for a discount due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals — Japan's last blockbuster initial public offering …
Sources: ServiceTitan's IPO brought big windfalls for early investors, including returns of $1B+ for Iconiq Growth and $800M+ for Bessemer Venture Partners
ServiceTitan, which develops software for tradespeople … Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Software maker ServiceTitan rockets 42% in stock market debut Steve Gelsi / MarketWatch : ServiceTitan's IPO g...
Malaysia, which has secured billions in AI and cloud infrastructure investments over the past year, launches a national AI office for policy and regulation
Ashley Tang / Reuters :
As Nvidia's stock price growth slows to just 3% over the past six months, experts say investor attention is likely to spread to companies actually using AI
Jennifer Hughes / Financial Times :
Hikvision terminates five contracts with local governments in China's Xinjiang, a move that could shield the company from pressure from the Trump administration
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
Sources: the US is preparing rules restricting the sale of GPUs to some countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, to limit China's ability to access them
new regulations include national quotas on GPU exports and a global licensing system Reuters : Exclusive: Major cloud providers could get key role in AI chip access outside the US, sources say Martin ...
Sources: Walmart is leading a $300M+ round alongside Ribbit Capital for Walmart-majority-owned fintech venture, One, giving it a $2.5B pre-money valuation
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OpenAI says ChatGPT's three-hour outage on December 11 was caused by a new telemetry service configuration deployed to collect Kubernetes control plane metrics
Can Blockchain Offer More Security? OpenAI : API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues PYMNTS.com : OpenAI Says Deployment of Telemetry Service Caused 3-Hour Outage Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's postmort...
Shutterstock launches a “research license” for AI companies, starting with Lightricks, which will train its video model LTXV on Shutterstock's video library
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat :
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