Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it” and that OpenAI is turning its focus to superintelligence
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning.
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit — Disney announced a deal …
Sam Altman says that OpenAI, which isn't profitable, is losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because “people use it much more than we expected”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because people are using it more than expected
Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world's largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections”
French president accuses world's richest man of intervening directly in continent's democratic processes
Microsoft is showing a Bing search result page that mimics Google Search UI when a user searches for “Google” on Bing while not signed into a Microsoft account
Microsoft seems to have rolled out a pretty interesting yet controversial change that spoofs Google.com UI when you try to find Google when using Bing.com.
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's and ChatGPT's first few years, his removal as CEO, OpenAI's structure, AGI, AI safety, nuclear fusion, Trump, Musk, and more
On Nov. 30, 2022, traffic to OpenAI's website peaked at a number a little north of zero. It was a startup so small and sleepy …
Samsung unveils a suite of AI experiences for its TVs, including Click to Search, Live Translate, and a way to recognize food on the screen and provide recipes
For this year's lineup, Samsung said that AI will come to life in more ways than just great picture quality.
Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft's Copilot+
everything you need to know Brad Linder / Liliputing : Intel Arrow Lake-U, H and HX chips for laptops are coming in Q1, 2025 Dwaipayan Roy / NewsBytes : AMD-rival Intel showcases newest chip line-up a...
Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025
Alphabet Inc.'s consumer team will give TV sets running its Google TV operating system an AI upgrade by adding Gemini to its Google Assistant voice-control system.
Sources: India plans ~$2.7B in fresh subsidies and import tariff cuts to help boost local manufacturing, especially of smartphones made by companies like Apple
- Proposed incentives will help smartphone makers like Apple — Final decision to be made by cabinet; details likely in budget
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X Platform, a chip to bring AI features to PCs starting at $600, with laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and others coming “early 2025”
Qualcomm Inc. introduced new chips designed to power personal computers capable of running the latest artificial …
Ring announces a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, launching for $54.97 and $74.97 in April 2025
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Sources: Italy is in advanced talks for a €1.5B, five-year SpaceX deal to provide the government with secure telecom services, Europe's largest such project
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Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn't say how it calculate MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable
Tubi continued to gain traction in 2024, surpassing 97 million monthly active users and 10 billion streaming hours.
Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders' personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don't pay, throwing China's funding ecosystem into crisis
Very interesting FT article on Chinese VC: “Chinese venture capitalists are hounding failed founders, pursuing personal assets and adding them to a national debtor blacklist when they fail to pay up, ...
Uber and Lyft are embracing autonomous vehicle operators like Waymo, May Mobility, and others, after abandoning developing their own driverless taxis years ago
Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal :
TiVo plans to launch TiVo OS in the US with a new Sharp TV, arriving as soon as February 2025, rivaling the likes of Roku, Google TV, and Amazon's Fire TV
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Comcast plans to launch Universal Ads in Q1 2025 to simplify ad buying and win over SMB advertisers from Big Tech, and signs deals with NBCUniversal and others
Universal Ads serves as the solution to a fragmented premium video marketplace. …
Singapore-based Digital Edge, which operates 21 data centers in Japan, South Korea, India, and others, raised $1.6B+, including ~$640M in equity and $1B in debt
Yantoultra Ngui / Reuters :
Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and says it can run models up to 200B parameters in size
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” …
A look at the rise of Watch Duty, a wildfire monitoring app active in 14 US states that has gained up to 7.2M active users in the three years since its launch
We personally owe it at least a week of good sleep in the past year alone. — Bonus: no more need to wade through Facebook, 😉. — https://www.theguardian.com/ ... …
Avataar debuts Velocity, an AI tool that generates product videos based on a product link, and says HP, Victoria's Secret, Lowe's, and others are using the tool
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Forums: r/artificial Forums: r/artificial : Avataar releases new tool to create AI-generated videos for products | TechCrunch
Advertising company Outfront, whose clients include Mercury, Brex, Klarna, and Venmo, says fintech ad spend is up 45%+ YoY on average over the past three years
Teresa Xie / Bloomberg :
A profile of headhunter Peterson Conway, who worked with Palantir and other Silicon Valley defense and hard tech firms and is now the talent head at VC firm A*
Margaux MacColl / TechCrunch :
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