Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Elon Musk's conflicts of interest and Verizon's $2B FAA contract in 2023
Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade …
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a DeepSeek-linked group obtained a large amount of data from OpenAI's API in an unauthorized manner
Microsoft's security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount …
OpenAI says it has seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
Sources: Chinese officials are evaluating an option involving Elon Musk acquiring TikTok US; X would take control of TikTok US and run the businesses together
- ByteDance's preferred strategy is to fight ban, people say — Trump has said he would like to delay ban to seek resolution
Sources: Chinese officials are evaluating an option involving Elon Musk acquiring TikTok US; X would take control of TikTok US and run the businesses together
- ByteDance's preferred strategy is to fight ban, people say — Trump has said he would like to delay ban to seek resolution
Sources: Chinese officials are evaluating an option involving Elon Musk acquiring TikTok US; X would take control of TikTok US and run the businesses together
- ByteDance's preferred strategy is to fight ban, people say — Trump has said he would like to delay ban to seek resolution
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
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 …
Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban
- Company increases investment proposal tenfold, sources say — Indonesia banned sales of iPhone 16 over local content rules
SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using Nvidia's DGX B200 platform, and a follow-up effort featuring the Grace Blackwell chip
Nvidia CEO regrets not taking the loan Brian Caulfield / NVIDIA : ‘Every Industry, Every Company, Every Country Must Produce a New Industrial Revolution,’ Says NVIDIA CEO Jensen Hu...
Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to ~$57.4B, net profit up 73% to ~$7.3B, operating profit of ~$6.7B, and chip unit operating profit down 40% QoQ to ~$2.8B
Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal :
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts
Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
The demand for the X100 series of point-and-shoot digital cameras has driven big profits for Fujifilm after the X100V went viral on TikTok in September 2022
Curtis Heinzl / Bloomberg : X: @newley and @business X: Newley Purnell / @newley : TikTok's love of the Fujifilm X100V has driven big profits for the Japanese company, which initi...
A look at voice bots from Indian startups Sarvam AI, CoRover, and Gnani.ai; Samsung-backed Gnani now handles millions of voice conversations daily for companies
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : X: @saritharai and @newley . Forums: r/artificial X: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : $0.01 per minute AI voice bots have made their debut! Sarvam, India's Op...
Memo: Microsoft tells staff in China they must use iPhones for work from September, saying that Google services like the Play Store are not available in China
- Company will block corporate access from Android in China — Microsoft has been tightening cybersecurity following attacks
Internal memo: Microsoft tells staff in China that from September 2024 they can only use iPhones for work, including to verify identities, affecting hundreds
- Windows software maker is standardizing employee cybersecurity — Company will block corporate access from Android in China
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US
- Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024
India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves …
Some TikTok fans in India still question the country's 2020 decision to ban the app, saying alternatives like YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels lack its allure
Wall Street Journal :
Some TikTok fans in India still question the country's 2020 decision to ban the app, saying alternatives like YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels lack its allure
Young adults in India who came of age on the app are still angry at their government — NEW DELHI—Gayatari Mohanty always wanted to be a dancer.