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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks  —  Apple researchers have developed new methods for training large language models on… Read More »Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Epic’s antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months  —  Maker of Fortnite says in… Read More »Epic’s antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Benjamin Shestakofsky / IEEE Spectrum: An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn’s push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering  —  For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself… Read More »An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn’s push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering (Benjamin Shestakofsky/IEEE Spectrum)

Miranda Bryant / The Guardian: Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram  —  Exclusive: Psychologist accuses Meta of ‘turning a blind eye’… Read More »Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn’t a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino’s thankless task of trying to assure brands  —  Unexpected split leaves X CEO Linda… Read More »How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn’t a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino’s thankless task of trying to assure brands (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees  —  LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name… Read More »LinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: US prosecutors in Virginia, with FDA’s help, are investigating whether Meta’s platforms are facilitating and profiting from the illegal sale of drugs  —  Federal prosecutors are looking into whether platforms including Facebook facilitate and profit from… Read More »Sources: US prosecutors in Virginia, with FDA’s help, are investigating whether Meta’s platforms are facilitating and profiting from the illegal sale of drugs (Wall Street Journal)

Axios: A look at a potential TikTok US sale, with an estimated valuation of $100B, or $40B without the algorithm, as Steven Mnuchin and others form investor groups  —  – TikTok’s U.S. revenue reportedly was between $16 billion and $20… Read More »A look at a potential TikTok US sale, with an estimated valuation of $100B, or $40B without the algorithm, as Steven Mnuchin and others form investor groups (Axios)

Reuters: Sources: SpaceX’s Starshield is building a network of spy satellites under a classified, $1.8B contract with the US spy agency National Reconnaissance Office  —  SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with… Read More »Sources: SpaceX’s Starshield is building a network of spy satellites under a classified, $1.8B contract with the US spy agency National Reconnaissance Office (Reuters)

Matt Novak / Gizmodo: Filing: SBF wrote a Google doc in which he floated “bad ideas” to improve his image, including going on Tucker Carlson and coming out “against the woke agenda”  —  SBF’s brainstorming notes included lines like “Come… Read More »Filing: SBF wrote a Google doc in which he floated “bad ideas” to improve his image, including going on Tucker Carlson and coming out “against the woke agenda” (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)