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A Berlin court rules that Google must pay €465M and €107M to German price comparison sites Idealo and Producto, in damages for market abuse; Google will appeal (Reuters)

Reuters:
A Berlin court rules that Google must pay €465M and €107M to German price comparison sites Idealo and Producto, in damages for market abuse; Google will appeal  —  Google (GOOGL.O) must pay the German price comparison platform Idealo approximately 465 million euros ($542 million) …

Valve made Microsoft’s dream console

Microsoft keeps describing this model for the future of a game console that sounds great for players: it's as easy as a console, it can play a huge library of PC titles, and it even supports third-party stores. That'd be a wonderful product if someone could build it, and it sure looks like Valve has […]

AI is resurrecting the voices of dead famous people

Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max Brod: burn all of Kafka’s unpublished writing and papers.  Fortunately for the rest of the world, Brod largely ignored what Kafka had said, which is why today we have works like The Castle and The Trial, not […]

Is Pluribus actually about AI? We asked Vince Gilligan

Watching the sci-fi show reminds me of using ChatGPT, and not in a good way

Baidu's stock closed down 7.21% in Hong Kong on November 14 after Ernie 5.0 underwhelmed investors, denting hopes for the company to regain ground lost to peers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Baidu's stock closed down 7.21% in Hong Kong on November 14 after Ernie 5.0 underwhelmed investors, denting hopes for the company to regain ground lost to peers  —  Baidu Inc. shares fell by the most in seven months as the newest version of its artificial intelligence model underwhelmed investors …