Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms
blog.google/outreach-ini... #google #seo #legal [image] Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange : Okay, having read Google's proposed remedies in its antitrust case, they seem to me deeply unserious. ...
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 …
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy
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.
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
Investment, more than export controls, will keep the U.S. ahead of Beijing, Commerce secretary says
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks
Also: Company ramps up work on turning AirPods into a health device.
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
@techmeme.com [embedded post] @jimobx : Trump will take credit. @gtjr : This is a program that the incoming administration wants to kill Dr. Steven Buckley / @stevenjcbuckley : Ted Cruz voted against ...
A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers
A recent visit to the company's overhauled drone delivery program in Arizona left me impressed by the drones, but skeptical that the public will welcome them.
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems
Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short words are represented by a single token …
The US NHTSA suggests easing rules allowing for fully driverless cars and urges companies operating driverless cars to share more data for greater transparency
But there's a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data.
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
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12 Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : OpenAI unveils AI model for advanced reasoning Bojan Stojkovski / Interesting Engineering : OpenAI unveils o3 reasoning AI model to tackle compl...
Tesla's shares are up 73% since Election Day, as several analysts see the Trump administration easing rules for self-driving tech, benefiting Tesla's ambitions
- Stock was down 2% before election, gains 73% since Trump's win — ‘Hard to imagine an upside’ from here: Wisdomtree's Gannatti
How Britannica survived the Wikipedia era by changing itself into a maker of education software and AI agents, as it reportedly weighs an IPO at a $1B valuation
The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public. X: @britannica_edu . LinkedIn: Justin A...
A look at India's quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029
- Zomato, Swiggy among those who now have quick food delivery — Some social media users have voiced concerns on food quality
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
Snapchat is currently being sued by the families of teens who allegedly bought drugs from dealers who they were recommended to follow. … X: Brad Stone / @bradstone : Another remarkable story from @liv...
Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities
ABSTRACT We introduce Best-of-N (BoN) Jailbreaking … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : y0U hA5ε tU wR1tε l1Ke tHl5 to Break GPT-4o, Gemini Pro and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI Safety Measures Jose Antonio La...
Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region
- While global tech expands in the region, its startups languish — Its homegrown tech industry risks falling behind in AI
Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024 and expects to invest $2.5B to $3B in 2025 across AI, finance, biotech, education, and mining
Lucinda Shen / Axios :
Report: hedge funds employing crypto strategies posted 46% gains in November, bringing their YTD returns to 76%, outpacing the industry average of 10% YTD gains
Crypto strategies made more than 30 per cent in November following Donald Trump's election victory
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
It's true. I *can't* understand why he wouldn't take a selfie with me! — fortune.com/2024/12/19/a... Mastodon: Greg Linden / @glinden@sigmoid.social : @Techmeme It seems weird to me that this busin...
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
Manish Singh / India Dispatch : X: @refsrc and @refsrc X: Manish Singh / @refsrc : Swiggy, the unnamed FD+QC app in the picture, complicates all app analysis because it doesn't have a standalone app ...
Sources: Intel shortlists buyout firms for the next round of bidding for its Altera unit, including Francisco Partners, Silver Lake, and Lattice Semiconductor
Bloomberg :
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
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