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Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology : A look at Anthropic's governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust that will select most its board   —  A long-term benefit trust will eventually pick most of Anthropic's board members.  Can we trust the structure?

Jon Victor / The Information : Sources: Google delayed the public launch of Gemini from next week to January 2024, after finding that the LLM didn't reliably handle some non-English queries   —  Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …

Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley responded Friday to a series of attacks from her political opponents, saying that her challengers in the race are losing and that they know that her campaign is "surging." Haley's comments came during an interview with Fox News Channel's Martha MacCallum on "The Story," where she also took aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his comments about her record as governor of South Carolina and suggested that it's up to him whether to drop out of the race as she gains momentum in the polls. Asked about recent campaign attacks by former President Donald Trump , who has referred to Haley as "bird brain" and insisted she is a globalist concerned about the prosperity of other nations, Haley said, "Look, all these guys know that we're surging in the polls so they're all starting to hit." "The nickname, he's losing it, it's not even a funny nic...

Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel : Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the entire team at the maker of photo and video apps, including its founder and CEO   —  Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …

Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona rancher's daughter who went on a distinguished trailblazing legal career, was "the most qualified woman" then-President Ronald Reagan "could possibly find" to appoint to the Supreme Court in 1981, according to a Reagan historian. An accomplished politician turned jurist, O’Connor had been the first female majority leader of the Arizona Senate. Following her legislative work, she turned to the judiciary, serving as a county court judge before being appointed to the Arizona Court of appeals.  During his 1980 presidential campaign, President Reagan made a promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court bench. In O'Connor, Reagan found something of a kindred spirit, according to one biographer. Craig Shirley, author of the forthcoming book The Search for Reagan , writes, "Like Reagan, Sandra Day (O’Connor later by marriage), came from a hardscrabble background." SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE...

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post : News outlets turning to Reddit amid X's decline face a dilemma over which subreddit to choose; Business Insider faces criticism for posting in a snark subreddit   —  But with thousands of subreddits, where exactly news sites should promote their work presents a dilemma

The Cook Political Report made a notable rating adjustment in the Montana Senate race , shifting favor to Republicans in the battleground race for the Democratic seat. The "independent, non-partisan" analyzer, which measures the competitiveness of races nationwide, shifted the Democrat-held Montana Senate seat Thursday from "Lean Democrat" to "Toss Up," a major move in the 2024 election as Democrats cling onto their slim chamber majority. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, is running for a third term in Montana next fall but faces tough opposition from Republican Tim Sheehy, who is running a high-profile race to flip the blue seat to the Republican Party. Jessica Taylor of the Cook Political Report wrote that Tester faces "the toughest uphill climb of any incumbent Democrat." SENATE CANDIDATE SAYS DEM OPPONENT ‘TWO-FACED’ ON ISSUES DURIN ELECTION YEAR: ‘DYED-IN-THE-WOOL LIBERAL’ "Three-term Sen. Jon Tester may well be Democrats’ strongest i...

EXCLUSIVE : Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to close down a detention facility in Adelanto, Calif., that can house nearly 2,000 illegal immigrant inmates but has been nearly empty for years due to a COVID-era court order, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell Fox News Digital -- just as the administration is calling for more detention beds for the agency. ICE was blocked by a September 2020 court order from sending more detainees to the privately-operated facility after a lawsuit demanding fewer detainees due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was then near its peak.  But that order is still in place, despite the COVID-19 emergency declaration having ended earlier this year and similar facilities -- including in the area -- having expanded capacity. While able to house nearly 2,000 detainees, only a handful of immigrants live there. ICE DETENTION CENTER HOUSES HANDFUL OF INMATES DESPITE HAVING THOUSANDS OF BEDS: LAWMAKER  Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-...

David Pierce / The Verge : How OpenAI's low-key ChatGPT launch a year ago kickstarted a generational shift in the tech industry and what it means for the future of AI and the world   —  OpenAI didn't mean to kickstart a generational shift in the technology industry.  But it did.  Now all we have to decide is where to go from here.

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s sister, Liz Whitmer Gereghty, on Wednesday suspended her campaign for the House in New York’s 17th congressional district. In announcing her exit from the contest as Democrats vie to reclaim the seat won by GOP Rep. Mike Lawler in 2022, Gereghty endorsed former congressman Mondaire Jones. Jones is running a comeback campaign to flip back the once-reliably blue district now considered swing territory in 2024. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC dedicated to electing Republicans to the House of Representatives, billed Jones as an "extreme progressive" who supports Medicare-for-all and the Green New Deal and has backed calls to defund police, along with the abolition of cash bail.  "When we started this journey, we had one goal: to ensure the Hudson Valley was no longer represented by an anti-choice, shape-shifting extremist out of step with our values," Gereghty said in a statement. "Mike Lawler and his ...

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean Lazarus hackers, and seizes its service in an international law enforcement operation   —  The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is opening an investigation into Harvard University following antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, Fox News has learned.  In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital dated Tuesday, Kristi R. Harris, Chief Attorney for the OCR Boston Office said that the OCR will be opening an investigation into whether Harvard "failed to respond to alleged harassment of students based on their national origin (shared Jewish ancestry and/or Israeli) in a manner consistent with the requirements of Title VI."  "Please note that opening the complaint for investigation in no way implies that OCR has made a determination on the merits of the complaint. During the investigation, OCR is a neutral factfinder, collecting and analyzing relevant evidence from you, the University, and other sources, as appropriate," the letter says.  "Our goal is the prompt resolution of the complaint," Harris ...

Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic : Survey of Substack and Telegram finds “scores” of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack's ~17K total; over 16 use Nazi symbols   —  The newsletter platform's lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has been using an alternative state email account under the name of a late Hall of Fame baseball player as a security measure, his spokesperson said Monday. Evers, a Democrat , used a taxpayer-funded email account with the name "warren.spahn@wisconsin.gov" to discuss public business with top-level Cabinet appointees and others, the conservative outlet Wisconsin Right Now first reported on Sunday. Warren Spahn is a Hall of Fame former Milwaukee Braves pitcher. Evers' spokesperson Britt Cudaback on Monday said use of the alias email addresses is common. WISCONSIN GOV. EVERS VETOES 'COMPLETELY UNSERIOUS' $2B TAX CUT GOV. EVERS SUES WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE FOR OBSTRUCTING BASIC GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS "As a matter of digital security, dignitaries in the state of Wisconsin have alias email addresses, including the governor, first lady, and lieutenant governor, as has been the case for at least the last decade that I’m aware of, including...

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu : UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits, which offers quantum-computing-as-a-service, announces a new 32-qubit system and an ongoing $100M Series B led by Japan's SBI   —  The company also announced the public availability of OQC Toshiko, the world's first enterprise-ready quantum computing platform.

Attorney General Merrick Garland visited the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City on Monday, when he shared brief public remarks about his office’s role in securing the safe return of American hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. During his visit, Garland met with U.S. Attorney Damian Williams as well as other federal, state and local law enforcement leaders to discuss the issues in their community. The visit is part of the attorney general’s plan to visit other U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country. "While these kinds of meetings between the Justice Department and our law enforcement partners are always important, the current global threat environment makes this one particularly urgent," Garland started his remarks. "Over the past several days, over 40 hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th have been released. Among them was Avigail Idan, a 4-year-old American," he continued. "We welcome Avigail's return and hope to see the retur...

Bloomberg : ByteDance to Fire Hundreds, Shut Nuverse in Major Gaming Retreat   — TikTok's owner will slash hundreds of jobs in games creation  — It's also seeking to sell existing gaming titles from Nuverse … TikTok's owner will fire several hundred people, unwind projects under development …

Reuters : Huawei announces it's moving its smart car unit's core tech and resources into a new joint venture with Changan Auto, which is taking a 40% stake in the company   —  China's Huawei (HWT.UL) said on Sunday it will move core technologies and resources in its smart car unit …

Lavender Au / Wired : A look at the growing usage of social media apps like Douyin among the elderly in China since the COVID-19 lockdowns, often to find companionship   —  As smartphone costs fall and society becomes more atomized, China's elderly are using apps like Douyin to find connection and companionship.

Mia Sato / The Verge : A look at Shein's NYC pop-up store, which resembled its website and may have only reinforced Shein's image of being quick, cheap, and not quite as it seems   —  The Shein pop-up store in New York this month resembled the e-commerce giant's website, except picture-perfect.