Journals

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI has completed a deal that values the company at $80B or more; OpenAI would sell existing shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital  —  The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10… Read More »Sources: OpenAI has completed a deal that values the company at $80B or more; OpenAI would sell existing shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital (New York Times)

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim  —  The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX… Read More »Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta is matching existing fact-checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, but says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads  —  Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from… Read More »Meta is matching existing fact-checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, but says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

RT Watson / The Block: Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose’s NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof’s NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside  —  – Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs announced it has acquired… Read More »Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose’s NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof’s NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside (RT Watson/The Block)

Susan Lazaruk / Vancouver Sun: Canada’s Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada should give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airlines’ chatbot  —  A B.C. man booked an Air Canada flight to Toronto for… Read More »Canada’s Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada should give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airlines’ chatbot (Susan Lazaruk/Vancouver Sun)

Bloomberg: Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors  —  – SoftBank has $41 billion cash pile and finances helped by… Read More »Sources: Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100B for an AI chip venture to rival Nvidia; one scenario involves $30B from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern investors (Bloomberg)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google releases the first developer preview of Android 15, with updates related to Android’s Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, and more  —  Our first official glimpse of Android 15 is here.  It includes a lot of… Read More »Google releases the first developer preview of Android 15, with updates related to Android’s Dynamic Performance Framework, privacy, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, more  —  The platform will feature deeper analytics and lower fees than the digital… Read More »Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, more (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Epic says it “will start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon thanks to the new Digital Markets Act”, after Apple approved its developer account  —  Three years after Apple kicked Epic Games off the… Read More »Epic says it “will start developing the Epic Games Store on iOS soon thanks to the new Digital Markets Act”, after Apple approved its developer account (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

Associated Press: OpenAI, Google, Meta, TikTok, X, and others sign a voluntary accord at the Munich Security Conference to fight AI-generated deepfakes designed to mislead voters  —  Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to… Read More »OpenAI, Google, Meta, TikTok, X, and others sign a voluntary accord at the Munich Security Conference to fight AI-generated deepfakes designed to mislead voters (Associated Press)