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For many AI researchers, OpenAI's GPT-3 has been an unexpected step toward machines that can understand the vagaries of human language (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times: For many AI researchers, OpenAI’s GPT-3 has been an unexpected step toward machines that can understand the vagaries of human language  —  The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs. For many AI researchers, OpenAI's

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Sources: President-elect Biden is considering appointing former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler as Deputy Treasury Secretary (CNBC)

CNBC: Sources: President-elect Biden is considering appointing former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler as Deputy Treasury Secretary  —  President-elect Joe Biden is considering TIAA CEO Roger Ferguson to be his National Economic Council director and former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Gary Gensler … Sources: President-elect Biden is considering appointing former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler as

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Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4 (David Yaffe-Bellany/Bloomberg)

David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4  —  The Trump administration has given the owner of TikTok another week to resolve national security concerns before it’s required to sell the viral video-sharing app. Court filing: CFIUS extends the

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UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021  —  The U.K. will spend 250 million pounds ($333 million) to diversify its sources of 5G wireless equipment after banning China’s Huawei Technologies Co. from supplying the next-generation technology. UK

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Netflix settles Bandersnatch ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ lawsuit

Photo: Netflix Netflix has settled a lawsuit over its interactive special Bandersnatch. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix announced the deal with Choose Your Own Adventure book publisher Chooseco on Monday. The settlement ends a bitter legal fight between Netflix and Chooseco, which claimed the streaming video platform had infringed its trademark. Chooseco sued Netflix

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