Shifting Paradigms: WGA Strike Updates and Autonomous Driving Innovations

The big FTC-led lawsuit against Amazon is live. Is Jony Ive working with OpenAI to create an AI hardware product? OpenAI might soon be 3x-ing its private valuation. What the writers won from Hollywood. And what it’s actually like to ride in the only street-legal Level 3 autonomous car.

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Links:

• FTC and 17 states sue Amazon on antitrust charges (CNBC)
• Designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Discuss AI Hardware Project (The Information)
• OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares (WSJ)
• The iPhone 15 Pro series overheating issues are unrelated to TSMC’s advanced 3nm node / iPhone 15 Pro (Ming-Chi Kuo)
• The new WGA contract will change how Hollywood works (The Verge)
• Hollywood Studios Can Train AI Models on Writers’ Work Under Tentative Deal (WSJ)
• We put our blind faith in Mercedes-Benz’s first-of-its-kind autonomous Drive Pilot feature (The Verge)

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