Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms
We will appeal the Court's decision but the process requires that we first file proposed remedies. This is a case about contracts.
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO
Israel-based maker of Pegasus program loses five-year-old landmark case. — Messaging giant WhatsApp won a landmark ruling Friday …
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025
OpenAI announced its new o3 models on Friday. — In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its …
o3, trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 87.5% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation in a high-compute configuration; GPT-4o scored 5% in 2024
This is “The AI Economy,” a weekly LinkedIn-first newsletter … Sharon Goldman / Fortune : Sam Altman says OpenAI's new o3 ‘reasoning’ models begin the ‘next phase’ of AI. Is this AGI? Pradeep Viswanat...
Qualcomm prevails at trial against Arm's claim that it breached a chip tech license acquired in the $1.4B Nuvia purchase in 2021; Arm plans to seek a retrial
- US jury finds Qualcomm didn't violate terms of agreement — Delaware jurors were unable to agree on Nuvia's alleged breach
The US awards a $4.75B CHIPS Act grant to Samsung and $1.6B to Texas Instruments for new factories in Texas and Utah, rounding out the program's largest grants
- Incentives will go toward new factories in Texas and Utah — Biden administration is racing to complete federal grants
OpenAI says safety researchers can sign up for o3 preview today and that it decided not to name the new model o2 “out of respect” for the UK telecom company
here's why these ‘reasoning’ models are a giant leap Jaspreet Singh / Reuters : OpenAI unveils ‘o3’ reasoning AI models in test phase Bluesky: Glenn White / @justicar.xyz : “Out of respect” for not ge...
Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities
New research from Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies and the developer of the Claude family of Large Language Models …
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month …
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data
OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion Bluesky: @allytibbitt.me , @tomashirstecon , @columnist , @madamehardy , @dawnnafus , @seed-corn-...
As part of its remedies proposal, Google would make its Android agreements with OEMs non-exclusive and allow them to unbundle Play Store from Chrome and Search
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The US charges dual Russian and Israeli national Rostislav Panev for allegedly working with the LockBit ransomware group and seeks his extradition from Israel
- Extortion group targeted Boeing, Royal Mail and thousands more — Israeli-Russian national allegedly hired via Telegram chat app
A look at a lawsuit from 64 families against Snap that alleges Snapchat's design is responsible for connecting teens to dealers selling counterfeit drugs
“I'm a survivor, and that's bad for you, CEO of Snapchat, because, uh, uh, uh ...” Michael Brewer can't finish his sentence. Bluesky: @rachaelmyrow . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @livcarville ,...
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake artist” issue appar...
Google calls DOJ's proposed Chrome sale “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging the judge to take caution to avoid stifling innovation and future investment
Bloomberg : Bluesky: @lilygreen , @quillmatiq.com , @scriptor , and @loeber Bluesky: @lilygreen : husb says it reminds him of Bell sys breakup. they'll make a deal. Anuj Ahooja / @quillmatiq.com : Go...
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours
Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk :
As part of its remedies proposal, Google says it won't require device makers and other partners to distribute Gemini to US users for three years
Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.
A study by Waymo and insurer Swiss Re finds Waymo's vehicles were safer than those driven by humans, with a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims and more
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A profile of AWS CEO Matt Garman, including his first few months on the job, what his stewardship means for the business, and his opportunities and challenges
Matt Garman joined Amazon Web Services as an intern nearly two decades ago. But his appearance earlier this month … Bluesky: @quinnypig.com . X: @delrey . LinkedIn: Jason Del Rey Bluesky: Corey Quinn...
Sensor Tower: Indian quick commerce startup Zepto had 31M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 6M in May 2022; Blinkit had 30M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 28M in May 2022
Quick-commerce rivals Zomato-owned Blinkit and Zepto are neck-and-neck in India's instant delivery market … X: @refsrc and @refsrc X: Manish Singh / @refsrc : Zepto has surpassed rival Blinkit in mont...
Global shipments of VR and MR headsets are expected to reach ~9.6M units in 2024, up 8.8% YoY; Meta remains the global leader with a 73% market share
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Tai Mo Shan, part of Jump Trading's crypto unit, agrees to pay $123M to settle SEC's claims it misled investors about the stability of TerraUSD
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US DOJ says a Romanian involved in Netwalker ransomware attacks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to computer fraud and wire fraud
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/ securit... LinkedIn: James Silver : Proud to be part of this team bringing ransomware actors to justice. — https://lnkd.in/... Forums: r/cybersecurity : Romanian Netwa...
Sam Altman says Elon Musk is “clearly a bully” who is suing OpenAI because the startup is doing really well and calls the lawsuits “a little bit of a sideshow”
and the Battle for AI's Future Danny D'Cruze / Business Today : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls Elon Musk a ‘bully,’ discusses ‘complicated’ relationship Will McCurdy / PCMag : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Calls...
Sources: David Sacks' role as WH AI and crypto czar will be limited to an adviser role, overseen by Michael Kratsios, partly because he won't divest from Craft
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Sources: Intel shortlists buyout firms for the next round of bidding for its Altera unit, including Francisco Partners, Silver Lake, and Lattice Semiconductor
Bloomberg : Bluesky: @cbrisson Bluesky: Chris Brisson / @cbrisson : Monopoly power is the order of the day, so I expect AMD to add Altera to its portfolio.
Report: Alibaba splits the team developing apps for its AI chatbot Qianwen from the team that builds its LLM, following similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu
Wency Chen / South China Morning Post :
Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity
Shivakumar Venkataraman, a longtime Google executive who joined OpenAI earlier in 2024 to help lead the development of search and AI for enterprise, has left
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Google hired 100+ staffers of Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work on its new Android XR OS, raising questions about the future of Magic Leap
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