Norwayâs sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Teslaâs proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was âconcerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.â The ... Read more âș
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Blue Origin said it successfully conducted a key test of its New Glenn rocket, a precursor to a first launch of the rocket likely to occur in the coming weeks. The âhot fireâ test of New Glenn, in which the rocketâs engines were ignited for 24 seconds to simulate a launch, took place in Cape ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą Lists: 20 great books to read over the holidays.âą Artificial intelligence: A marketplace for solving AIâs copyright woes? ⹠Plus: The crust czar; a go-to travel shoe; and birds with bullets.Elon Musk really has reached a remarkable place within our lives, a type of ubiquity few other business titans have ever enjoyed. Sure, each decade always has its cast of famous, well-followed facesâMilken in the... Read more âș
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Nearly a century ago, Isaac Asimov laid out his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of commandments imagining how artificial beings should interact with humans. The tenets underpin much of modern science fiction, and they tend to knock around in the minds of the people developing modern technology, too. Trip Adler, a co-founder of Scribdâwhich has sites for storing documents online and e-book subscriptionsâis one of those people. And in... Read more âș
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The sleepy Friday between Christmas and New Yearâs turned out to be not so sleepy after all. President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon asking to delay the effective date of a law banning TikTok. The law will ban TikTok on Jan. 19âone day before Trump takes officeâunless it can find a buyer that satisfies U.S. national security concerns about the app.Trumpâs brief wasnât... Read more âș
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Lawyers for president-elect Donald Trump told the Supreme Court Friday that Trump opposes banning TikTok in the U.S. âat this junctureâ and would like to âresolve the issues at handâ once he takes office. The brief by Trumpâs lawyers was one of several filed Friday about the law, which bans the ... Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs lawsuit to stop OpenAI from moving to a fully for-profit structure has gained another supporter. Encode, a youth organization that advocates for issues related to artificial intelligence, submitted an amicus curiae brief on Friday, effectively arguing that OpenAI and its technologies ... Read more âș
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Do Kwon, 33, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, will be extradited to the U.S. for prosecution rather than his home country South Korea, according to the government of Montenegro. Kwon faces criminal charges of fraud over the 2022 collapse of TerraUSD and Luna cryptocurrencies and is wanted by ... Read more âș
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One of Neal Stephensonâs favorite texting buddies is Seamus Blackley, a creator of the Xbox when he was at Microsoft and a former agent at Creative Artists Agency. Their friendship extends back years, and they often trade notes and thoughts on whatever technology has come to fascinate them. A while ago, they got to talking about radiation and nuclear power, and they settled on a challenge: Theyâd each build a... Read more âș
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Bench, a Vancouver, Canada-based bookkeeping startup that had raised more than $100 million from well-known venture capital firms, has cut off its service to customers, effectively immediately, according to a message posted to its website and an e-mail sent to customers. The company also laid ... Read more âș
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OpenAI on Friday revealed more details about its plan to get its for-profit arm out from under its nonprofitâs control, changes which The Information first reported on in June. In a blog post, the ChatGPT maker said it planned to convert its existing for-profit entity into a public benefit ... Read more âș
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To train artificial intelligenceâpowered robots to pick a book off a shelf a decade ago, researchers had to direct the robots to perform the task roughly 500 times before the robots learned to imitate the motion, recalls Brad Porter, founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, which is developing robots to work in hospitals and warehouses. These days the robots can successfully grab a book after only 20 trialsâwhich is âmuch... Read more âș
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has agreed to create a joint venture with South Korean retailer E-Mart. The new South Korean e-commerce joint venture could be valued at about $4 billion, Bloomberg reported. The companies plan to launch the joint venture next year, according to a ... Read more âș
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A lot of eyes were on Netflix on Christmas Dayânot just to see whether the Kansas City Chiefs could clinch their home-field advantage in the playoffs by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers (they did), or if BeyoncĂ© could put on a Super Bowlâworthy halftime show during a regular-season game in Houston (she did). Those eyes were also scrutinizing the event to see whether Netflix could successfully stream NFL games a month... Read more âș
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Netflix said its exclusive live streams of two Christmas Day NFL games on Wednesday drew more than 24 million viewers, on averageâa high point in live sports streaming but typical for what NFL games attract on broadcast TV. In total, Netflix said its two NFL telecasts reached nearly 65 million ... Read more âș
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Leaders of Microsoft and OpenAI have talked a lot publicly about artificial general intelligence, a term that has been defined as when artificial intelligence can surpass human performance in a variety of tasks. But behind the scenes, the companies last year agreed that AGI would be achieved ... Read more âș
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To sell more artificial intelligence, Microsoft has bundled its Copilot AI assistantâwhich is similar to ChatGPTâwith its Office 365 productivity apps in Australia and Southeast Asia for individual customers. Itâs also charging them a higher subscription for the new bundle, prompting at least ... Read more âș
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Dealmakers, itâs been a history-making year. OpenAI raised $6.6 billion, the largest venture capital fundraise in historyâonly to have Databricks beat that record with its $10 billion haul in December. Then there were the acqui-hires, topped by Google paying $2.7 billion for the talent and technology behind Character AI.But the year wasnât just up and to the right. Several well-known startups shut down, including fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy... Read more âș
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Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!Whether AGI has or hasnât been âachievedâ by AI developers has been a hotly debated topic due to its fuzzy and subjective definition. OpenAI has publicly described AGI as automated systems that outperform people at âmost economically valuable work,â but nobody can agree on what that means.Now we have clarity, thanks to this story Amir and I published this morning.... Read more âș
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation. His biggest hurdle is Microsoft, which has outsize influence on the process after having committed more than $13 billion to OpenAI. The companies have been negotiating potential changes in OpenAIâs structure since around October. Those talks have focused on four areas: Microsoftâs equity stake in the for-profit entity; whether... Read more âș
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As the Teamsters union ramps up an organizing push aimed at Amazon, the owners of the thousands of independent companies that deliver orders for the e-commerce titan are growing increasingly jittery about their future. In a private chat group for owners of those businessesâsubcontractors whom Amazon says are the legal employers of the hundreds of thousands of drivers that wear Amazon uniforms and drive Amazon vansâthe mood is dark. Some... Read more âș
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