Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board
The Emirati AI Giant That Just Got A $1.5 Billion Investment From Microsoft Chris McKay / Maginative : Microsoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE's G42 Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Microsoft invests $1...
Elon Musk says xAI plans to open source Grok this week; xAI released Grok in November 2023, offering access to “real-time” data via X's $16/month subscription
and takes another swipe at OpenAI Stefanie Schappert / Cybernews.com : Musk makes xAI's Grok open source in latest dig at OpenAI Inc.com : Elon Musk's Open-Source ‘Grok’ Takes on ChatGPT Brian Bushard...
A US judge sides with the SEC, ruling that Terraform broke the law by not registering four cryptocurrencies, but dismisses the SEC's security-based swap claims
In this case, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") … Cristian Lipciuc / CryptoPotato : Terraform Labs Sold Unregistered Securities, Says Judge Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Is the SEC trying t...
OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K-token context window, an April 2023 knowledge cutoff, a JSON mode, new modalities in the API, and 2x to 3x cheaper tokens
GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting text or image inputs … TechRadar : OpenAI promises to fund legal costs for ChatGPT business users sued over copyright Alex McFarland / Unite.AI : OpenAI Sp...
Elon Musk says that xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on November 4 and “in some important respects, it is the best that currently exists”
Here's What To Know About xAI Beatrice Nolan / Insider : Elon Musk says xAI is ready to release its first AI model to a ‘select group’ Amy Thomson / Bloomberg : Musk Says Mysterious xAI Product to Be ...
FTX co-founder Gary Wang testifies that Alameda Research had “special privileges” that afforded a $65B line of credit, of which the firm ultimately withdrew $8B
and then lied about it Owotunse Adebayo / Cryptopolitan : FTX co-founder makes shocking revelation at SBF's trial New York Times : New Details About FTX Emerge as Bankman-Fried's Trial Begins Chimaman...
Telegram merchants can now accept payments via the TON blockchain-based Wallet in tether, bitcoin, and toncoin, expanding on support for transfers between users
Here's How it Works Helen Partz / Cointelegraph : Telegram Wallet bot enables in-app payments in Bitcoin, USDT and TON James Hunt / The Block : Wallet Pay enables Bitcoin, Tether and Toncoin payments ...