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Wall Street Journal: Sources, court filings, and internal documents detail how a flourishing partnership between Sam Altman and Elon Musk turned sour, culminating in Musk’s lawsuit  —  A legal battle between OpenAI’s co-founders is the latest twist in a volatile partnership that launched the artificial-intelligence boom Source link

Telecom giant Reliance Jio has been hard at work on its hardware offerings, launching phones and laptops in the budget segment. The company introduced its second laptop, the JioBook (2023), earlier this year in July at an aggressive price of Rs. 16,499. Jio now seems intent on expanding its PC lineup, with a new report

James Hunt / The Block: A Montenegro appeals court cancels the approval of Do Kwon’s extradition to the US, the third time the Terraform Labs co-founder has successfully appealed  —  – A Montenegro court has canceled the approval of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon’s extradition to the U.S. Source link

Nearly all of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to quit and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to work at the company’s biggest investor, Microsoft, unless the current board resigns, leaving the future of the high-profile artificial intelligence startup increasingly uncertain. More than 700 of the AI firm’s roughly 770 employees signed a letter on Monday addressed

Emma Roth / The Verge: A US judge upheld parts of a National Music Publishers’ Association’s copyright lawsuit against X and dismissed the claim that X engaged in direct infringement  —  The music labels suing Twitter — now X — for copyright infringement can move forward with parts of their lawsuit. Source link

WhatsApp is rolling out an update that allows users on iOS to link their email address to their WhatsApp account. The messaging app currently allows users to log in to their account using their registered phone number — adding an email address will allow for an additional avenue of access to WhatsApp. Email addresses will

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple says alternative app stores will stop working, and the apps installed from them will stop updating, if a user travels outside of the EU “for too long”  —  Regain clarity with CleanMyPhone by MacPaw — the new AI-powered cleaning app that quickly identifies and removes blurred images … Source link

Google allowed Spotify to sidestep the company’s mandatory Play Store fees, a company executive reportedly confirmed while giving testimony during the ongoing Epic vs Google trial. The Verge reports that a confidential deal with the streaming giant has come to light, revealing that Spotify was allowed to process its own payments on the service without paying

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Amid regulatory pressure around cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft’s fees remain  —  Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called “egress fees” attached.

Google One, the company’s all-in-one subscription service for extra cloud storage across Gmail, Google Photos, Drive, and more, recently crossed 100 million subscribers. The major milestone came just a day after the tech giant unveiled Gemini Advanced, the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant backed by its most powerful foundational model, Gemini Ultra. Its subscription plan is