Journals

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: An interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Sora, set for release later in 2024, its training data, red-teaming Sora, working with the film industry, and more  —  In an exclusive interview with our… Read More »An interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Sora, set for release later in 2024, its training data, red-teaming Sora, working with the film industry, and more (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google paid out $10M to 632 bug bounty researchers in 2023 via its Vulnerability Reward Program, including $3.4M for Android bugs; the highest bounty was $113K  —  Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68… Read More »Google paid out $10M to 632 bug bounty researchers in 2023 via its Vulnerability Reward Program, including $3.4M for Android bugs; the highest bounty was $113K (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Patricia Hernandez / Polygon: How MrBeast dominates this ostentatious YouTube era, using a fast, frantic, and omnipresent editing style, as his videos slowly evolve to focus on storytelling  —  Jimmy Donaldson warped YouTube in his image — but YouTube is… Read More »How MrBeast dominates this ostentatious YouTube era, using a fast, frantic, and omnipresent editing style, as his videos slowly evolve to focus on storytelling (Patricia Hernandez/Polygon)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Filing: the NYT denies OpenAI’s claims that the NYT “hacked” ChatGPT to create misleading evidence of copyright infringement, calling the claims “grandstanding”  —  The New York Times (NYT.N) has denied claims by OpenAI that it “hacked”… Read More »Filing: the NYT denies OpenAI’s claims that the NYT “hacked” ChatGPT to create misleading evidence of copyright infringement, calling the claims “grandstanding” (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Washington Post: As the House votes on a TikTok bill, expected to pass, the Senate lacks a companion measure and the bill faces an uncertain path; Rand Paul may block the bill  —  The House vote, set for Wednesday, is… Read More »As the House votes on a TikTok bill, expected to pass, the Senate lacks a companion measure and the bill faces an uncertain path; Rand Paul may block the bill (Washington Post)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Spotify rolls out music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in beta in 11 markets, including Brazil, Italy, and the UK, available to Premium subscribers  —  Spotify is adding music videos to its mobile and… Read More »Spotify rolls out music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in beta in 11 markets, including Brazil, Italy, and the UK, available to Premium subscribers (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China’s Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn  —  Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually… Read More »Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China’s Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn (Caiwei Chen/Rest of World)

Timmy Shen / The Block: A study by the US Copyright Office and USPTO concludes that existing laws are sufficient to address NFT copyright concerns and there’s no need to change IP laws  —  – The intellectual property authorities in… Read More »A study by the US Copyright Office and USPTO concludes that existing laws are sufficient to address NFT copyright concerns and there’s no need to change IP laws (Timmy Shen/The Block)

Juro Osawa / The Information: Filings: ByteDance-owned entity Picoheart is now the third-largest shareholder in InnoStar, a Chinese state-backed ReRAM chips maker, with a 9.5% stake  —  As the Chinese government races to catch up in advanced computer chips, it… Read More »Filings: ByteDance-owned entity Picoheart is now the third-largest shareholder in InnoStar, a Chinese state-backed ReRAM chips maker, with a 9.5% stake (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Brave says after Apple added a default browser choice screen in the EU, daily installations of Brave on iOS jumped from ~8K to over 11K  —  Brave has seen a sharp increase in users installing its… Read More »Brave says after Apple added a default browser choice screen in the EU, daily installations of Brave on iOS jumped from ~8K to over 11K (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)