Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth
Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails.
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Japan to open bank data to researchers in evidence-based policy push
TOKYO -- Japan plans to open detailed banking-sector data to outside researchers as early as this fiscal year, Nikkei has learned, allowing them to an
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min read
Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.
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OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex
An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the…
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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide.
The Verge - AI3 min read
Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more…
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Sen. Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump one more time
Today, I’m talking with Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there.
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The messy bargain that could bring down your power bill
There’s no place like Kansas, a state whose howling winds are so fierce that in the 1800s, the roaring soundscape drove local farmers into madness. It is so windy in Kansas that every so often, trains get swept off their tracks or trampolines get hurled into the air and flung into neighbors’ trees.
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NJ’s lieutenant governor told PBS, AI says he didn’t commit sexual harassment
New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name.
The Verge - All Posts2 min read
Takaichi policy speech, Malaysia budget, Pacific islands climate summit
Welcome to Your Week in Asia.Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will kick off the reopening of parliament having conducted her first cabinet reshu
Nikkei Asia Tech4 min read
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Ars Technica1 min read
Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
California’s attorney general and three city attorneys announced a $272.5 million settlement with Lyft after allegations that the company “committed wage theft by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees” between 2016 and 2020, according to a Thursday statement.
Ars Technica1 min read
US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
Ars Technica AI1 min read
Japan's Katayama: Government united in view that reflation policy is over
TOKYO -- The government of Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is unified in its view that reflationary policy is over, Finance Minister Satsuki Kat
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min read
Japan's Takaichi disavows reflation as US pushes for policy change
TOKYO -- As U.S. pressure on Japan widens beyond trade to encompass fiscal and monetary policy, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government is emphasiz
Nikkei Asia Tech1 min read
Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it's not an antitrust issue.
Ars Technica1 min read
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