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Chappelle’s Show returns to Netflix now that Dave got paid

The Verge

Netflix began airing Chappelle’s Show on November 1st but pulled it on November 24th after the comedian complained that Comedy Central’s owner ViacomCBS licensed the show without his approval. “I And I got my license back, and I got my show back, and they paid me millions of dollars. View this post on Instagram. And I got my name back.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 25, 2024

GeekWire

… Read More Amazon hires Covariant founders, inks licensing deal with AI startup in latest ‘reverse acquihire’ Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems. … Read More . … Read More

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Dreamforce 2024: Latest news and insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Dreamforce 2024, which debuted in 2003, kicks off on Tuesday in San Francisco, featuring more than 1,200 keynotes, sessions, and workshops. 28, Morgan Stanley Analyst Keith Weiss noted that with Salesforce promising big productivity gains from AI agents investors are worried that Salesforce customers will need to license fewer seats.

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Microsoft, its partners, and the ‘last-mile problem’

Computerworld Vertical IT

Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need. Early on, Microsoft had a tiered program where better partners were called gold partners, and the lesser partners were called silver and bronze.

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In scathing ruling, judge dismisses Group14 lawsuit alleging battery trade secret violations

GeekWire

Here’s a timeline of the situation so far: In 2015, Group14 spun out of the energy storage materials company EnerG2 , which was itself a University of Washington spinoff founded in 2003. Nexeon sought to license Group14’s technology in 2018, but Group14 rejected that offer as well. Nexeon launched in 2006.

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This article is OpenAI training data

Vox

First put forward by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in his 2003 paper “Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence,” the thought experiment goes like this: Imagine an artificial general intelligence (AGI), one essentially limitless in its power and its intelligence. Check out Atlantic editor Damon Beres’s great take on it.)

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Ireland’s status as tax haven for tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Apple is ending

The Verge

Companies typically create Irish subsidiaries of their companies that license their intellectual property, on which the subsidiary pays royalties. Facebook established its international headquarters in Dublin in 2008 , and Google opened its European headquarters in Ireland in 2003.

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