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- OpenAI published more of Elon Musk’s emails if that’s something you want to read
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- Dispatch is a new narrative game from ex-Telltale developers
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- How Wall Street Billionaires Avoid Paying Medicare Taxes — ProPublica — How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
- “We’re Still Gonna Say No”: Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient — https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
- Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds: Embodied says it will try to refund recent purchases but makes no promises | Ars Technica
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- The devil and Luigi Mangione — Luigi Mangione appeared to try everything for chronic pain from a back injury that hampered his physical livelihood and dating life, and struggled to receive support even as he tried to provide it for others.
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- What Type of Guy is the alleged UHC shooter? — Assessing Luigi Mangione's media diet made me laugh: > The basic line is something like: The world is getting worse and phones are killing us; politics won’t save us but technology might; in the meantime, lift weights, take supplements, listen to podcasts.
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- Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros | WIRED
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TechMeme
- The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly making $88M+ via fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from April 2017 to March 2023 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
- The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely suggested the BBC had published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself (Graham Fraser/BBC)
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- Sources: the US is preparing rules restricting the sale of GPUs to some countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, to limit China's ability to access them (Wall Street Journal)
- In a blog post, OpenAI says "You can't sue your way to AGI", and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit (Ina Fried/Axios)
- Report: Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at 2024's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
- Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says Klarna's investment in AI let it stop hiring a year ago and its headcount fell 22% to 3,500, mostly due to attrition (Bloomberg)
- Private-credit firm Sixth Street commits $4B in capital upfront for Affirm to underwrite four- to six-month installment loans, a source says starting in 2025 (Leslie Picker/CNBC)
- Liquid, which is building "liquid foundation models" inspired by the architecture of worm brains, raised a $250M Series A led by AMD at a $2.3B valuation (Bloomberg)
- How Anthropic's Claude became the chatbot of choice for AI industry insiders, who say its responses feel more creative and empathetic and less gratingly robotic (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
- Google rolls out NotebookLM Plus, the enterprise version of NotebookLM with higher limits and added access and data management controls, as part of Agentspace (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Google Cloud launches Agentspace to let enterprises create and deploy AI agents for sales, marketing, HR, software development, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
- Google rolls out interactive Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, an "experimental feature" that lets users talk to the AI "hosts" of the podcast-like overviews (Jay Peters/The Verge)
- OpenAI says ChatGPT's three-hour outage on December 11 was caused by a new telemetry service configuration deployed to collect Kubernetes control plane metrics (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- A Texas man gets a two-year sentence for underreporting capital gains from selling $3.7M in bitcoin, the first such prosecution based entirely on cryptocurrency (Adam James/The Block)