Filing: Microsoft puts an “assessment of investing in bitcoin” as a voting item for its December 10 shareholder meeting; its board recommends voting against it
☒ — No fee required — ☐ — Fee paid previously with preliminary materials Jez Corden / Windows Central : Is Microsoft about to jump on the bitcoin train? Microsoft will give shareholders a vote ...
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic partnership, sets a December 19 deadline; Google planned to invest $2B in 2023 and signed a cloud deal
Introducing SAIF Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : CMA Begins Probe Into Alphabet Partnership With Anthropic Associated Press : Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces a UK competition investigat...
X updates its Privacy Policy to allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X user data, unless the user opts out, effective November 15, 2024
and any disputes must be heard in a Trump-friendly court Christianna Silva / Mashable : X to allow third parties to train AI on your posts James Bentley / PC Gamer : The AI opt-out models Meta, Musk's...
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”
It's super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Edward Targett / The Stack : Wordpress Wars: Forking crazy nuclear takeover triggers fury Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : WordPress Forcefully Take...
eMarketer expects Google's share of the US search ad market to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, Apple, and others make gains
Biggest US antitrust victory since Microsoft could still be too little … Yahoo Finance : Google's grip on search slips as TikTok and AI startup mount challenge Radhika Saraogi / TipRanks Financial : A...
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find that UltraAV was installed remotely to replace Kaspersky on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV owner Pango
switchover caught many users by surprise Ernestas Naprys / Cybernews.com : Kaspersky users shocked by automatic antivirus replacement without explicit permission Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / Bet...
Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a ~$920K daily fine after an update made X accessible; X says service restoration was “inadvertent”
Usually when we talk about ban evasion, we're referring … Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Cloudflare helps Brazil block Elon Musk's X after platform briefly evaded ban Tiago Rogero / The Guardian : Brazi...
OpenAI should've stuck with the name Strawberry for o1, avoiding user confusion between models named 4o and o1, and helping humanize the tech
5 prompts to try it out Hindustan Times : OpenAI's new o1 model can solve 83% of International Mathematics Olympiad problems Krishi Chowdhary / The Tech Report : OpenAI o1: a New AI Model That “Thinks...
OpenAI claims that in a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, o1 correctly solved 83.3% of the problems, while GPT-4o solved only 13.4%
Sam Altman says it “doesn't constitute AGI” Poulami Saha / Financial Express : OpenAI makes big AI breakthrough, ChatGPT can now think and reason: Details Emilia David / VentureBeat : How to prompt on...
The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services
and an existential crisis Verdict : Apple and Google lose EU court battles over combined $17bn Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : Google Must Pay €2.4bn Fine, EU Court Rules Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Google Fai...