Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system — How fake music targets real artists. … I first noticed something weird when a HEALTH album dropped on my Spotify new release radar.
Applied Materials reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.05B, vs. $6.95B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; AMAT drops 5%+ after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Applied Materials reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.05B, vs. $6.95B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; AMAT drops 5%+ after hours — Applied Materials (AMAT.O) forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Thursday, a sign of sluggish demand …
Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $17.85B, above est., and net income up 44% YoY to $358.5M, vs. $343.3M est.; IDC: Lenovo’s PC shipments grew 3% YoY (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $17.85B, above est., and net income up 44% YoY to $358.5M, vs. $343.3M est.; IDC: Lenovo’s PC shipments grew 3% YoY — – Quarterly profit, revenue both increased at double-digit pace — Company grew PC shipments despite overall market decline
TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool — TikTok will let advertisers pull in content from Getty Images when using the platform’s AI ad creation tool.
Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 (Dag Spicer/CHM)
Dag Spicer / CHM:
Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 — 2023 CHM FELLOW — With deep sadness, we say goodbye to computer pioneer Thomas Kurtz. — Thomas Eugene Kurtz (Feb. 22 1928-Nov. 12 …
Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg:
Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack — – Ilya Lichtenstein tried to launder proceeds of Bitfinex hack — His rapper wife ‘Razzlekahn’ is set to be sentenced on Monday
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Michael Kan / PCMag:
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers — Previously limited to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, the app opens a ‘companion window’ on your PC, allowing you to easily use the AI chatbot alongside any other Windows programs.
Sources: the US House Select Committee on China summoned Amazon staffers in September to discuss concerns about Amazon’s shopping partnership with TikTok (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US House Select Committee on China summoned Amazon staffers in September to discuss concerns about Amazon’s shopping partnership with TikTok — Retail giant was summoned to Washington in September to speak to House Committee on China … The meeting has not been previously reported.
Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B — Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony AI said on Thursday it was targeting a valuation of up to $4.48 billion in its initial public offering in the United States.
Anthropic is working with the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure Claude models don’t share dangerous information about nuclear energy (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Anthropic is working with the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure Claude models don’t share dangerous information about nuclear energy — – In red-teaming exercises, experts test systems by trying to break them. — NNSA has been testing Anthropic’s models …
