Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton — Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI accusing the company of abandoning its nonprofit mission was withdrawn in July, only to be revived in August.
SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures — With the advent of flexible workspaces, companies are increasingly adopting smartphone-based authentication to let employees enter and leave.
Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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.
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
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.
