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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: X signs a two-year deal with the WWE for a new exclusive weekly video series called WWE Speed featuring timed matches of 5 minutes or less, coming spring 2024  —  ‘WWE Speed’ will stream timed matches meant to end in five minutes or less on the Elon Musk-owned platform. […]

OpenAI and Sam Altman have been in the news for the last week for different reasons, including the firing episode and the much-anticipated return late Tuesday. However, a new story unfolded today after Reuters reported a letter written by researchers at OpenAI warning about an all-new AI discovery, Project Q* (or called Q Star). The

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Expedia says CEO Peter Kern will step down after four years in the role and names its president for business, Ariane Gorin, as CEO, effective May 13, 2024  —  Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern will step down in May, the travel giant announced Thursday.  He will be replaced by Ariane Gorin,

Sam Altman‘s return as OpenAI’s chief executive will strengthen his grip on the startup and may leave the ChatGPT creator with fewer checks on his power as the company introduces technology that could upend industries, corporate governance experts and analysts said. OpenAI is bringing Altman back just days after his ouster as well as installing

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $362.5M, vs. $353.1M est., net loss of $27.9M, vs. $45.9M YoY, and Q1 revenue guidance above est.; NET jumps 17%+  —  – Cloudflare’s revenue and adjusted earnings surpassed expectations, as did quarterly guidance. Source link

The government is planning new regulations that may impose penalties on both creator and platform hosting deepfakes as it looks to clamp down on what IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishaw described as “a threat to democracy”.  Amid some celebrities reporting their faces being manipulated onto another video, new protection regulations being considered will look at measures

CNBC: Arm closed up 47.89% after issuing a strong profit forecast, adding ~$38B to its market cap, with $34B+ of that accruing to SoftBank, which owns 90% of Arm  —  – Shares of chip designer Arm climbed 48% on Thursday.  — The company reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, and issued an optimistic forecast.

India’s government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he said many companies had

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: A profile of OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, tasked by Sam Altman with striking a deal with Axel Springer, which may offer a road map for additional media deals  —  Brad Lightcap helped seal the startup’s deal with publisher Axel Springer.  Now he’s experimenting with the company’s business model. Source link

WhatsApp — the messaging app with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) owned by Meta — will soon add support for cross-platform messaging. Support for third party chats will allow people using a different messaging platform to text users on WhatsApp, and Meta has said that the feature will be opt-in to prevent users from being