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One year after Sam Altman was dramatically ousted and reinstated, OpenAI remains dominant as it continues to push ahead on impressive new products (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Palantir stock jumps 9% after announcing a move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq; its stock is up 50%+ since reporting better-than-expected earnings on November 4 (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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Bluesky says it has "no intention" of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of SBF (Luc Cohen/Reuters)

A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devo...

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Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

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Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Facebook makes Views its primary metric for conten...

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Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom fee...

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UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated "scambaiter" tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time (Jibin Joseph/PCMag)

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UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated "scambaiter" tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time (Jibin Joseph/PCMag)

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X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)

X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at cur...

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Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+ (Financial Times)

Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almos...

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Ant Group's profit grew ~193% YoY in the June quarter to $1.05B, reversing a year-long decline as it regains its footing from the Chinese government crackdown (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

Ant Group's profit grew ~193% YoY in the June quar...

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Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$32.4B, below ~$32.7B est., and net income up 58% YoY to ~$6.07B due to the performance of its equity investments (Ruxandra Iordache/CNBC)

Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$32.4B, b...

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A profile of Klarna and its CEO Sebastian Siemiatk...

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Biden admin finalizes its $6.6B CHIPS Act grant to TSMC; money will be disbursed in stages and TSMC is expected to receive at least $1B by the end of 2024 (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)

Biden admin finalizes its $6.6B CHIPS Act grant to...

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Filing: Samsung plans to buy back about $7.2B of its own stock in stages over the next year, in one of the larger shareholder return programs in its history (Bloomberg)

Filing: Samsung plans to buy back about $7.2B of i...

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How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots a humanlike understanding of the physical world by feeding data from robots doing tasks into its AI model (Will Knight/Wired)

How Physical Intelligence is trying to give robots...

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Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney says he led an effort to buy Grubhub for $1B+ around the start of 2024 and in 2022; Wonder bought Grubhub for $650M on Nov. 13 (Financial Times)

Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney says he led an eff...

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