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Satellite group SES to acquire Intelsat in $3.1 billion deal (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:12The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to train artificial intelligence models on the publisher’s archived content, in the latest agreement between the Microsoft-backed start-up and a global news publisher. Under the terms of the deal, the FT will license its material to the ChatGPT maker to help develop generative AI technology that can create text, images and code indistinguishable from human creations. The agreement also allows ChatGPT to respond to questions with short summaries from FT articles, with links back to FT.com.
EU to probe Meta over handling of Russian disinformation (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/29/2024 - 06:26Two died after UK shift from analogue to digital phone lines
The telecommunications industry’s transition from an analogue to a digital telephone system was partially paused after two Virgin Media O2 customers died following the failure of their telecare devices after the upgrade process. The incidents in 2023 triggered the government’s announcement in December that it had secured industry commitments to protect vulnerable customers.