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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of co...

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As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see di...

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Google tightens its rules against "parasite SEO" content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on "reputation abuse" (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Google tightens its rules against "parasite SEO" c...

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SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push (Bloomberg)

SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a S...

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Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Eu...

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ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine next month, inks licensing deals with DMG Media and more; sources say DMG bought a stake that values it at $130M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine ne...

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An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany (Wired)

An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates...

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How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks (Financial Times)

How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision...

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How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI...

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AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public (Yoshua Bengio/Financial Times)

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's...

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TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply (Nikkei Asia)

TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate r...

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Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveillance drones that can serve as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised €70M (Bloomberg)

Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveill...

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The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer project warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the global top 50, risks falling behind rivals (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer ...

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The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia as Bhutan's BTC holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, increased trading activity in South Korea, and more (Bloomberg)

The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asi...

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A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

A US Government Accountability Office report says ...

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Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggli...

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SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tunin...

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Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user's Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)

Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-par...

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