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Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk for $157 per share in cash, up 31% on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B — Cisco will pay $157 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement Thursday, or a 31% premium to Splunk's previous closing price on Wednesday.
More: Reuters, Cisco, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Splunk-Blogs, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Associated Press, RTÉ, Metaverse Post, Silicon Valley Business …, The Record, CRN, Cisco Blogs, Financial Times, Forbes, TechCircle, PaymentSecurity.io, Constellation Research, TechStartups, SecurityWeek, WRAL TechWire, and Help Net Security
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A live blog of Microsoft's Surface and AI event, where the company is expected to detail its vision for Surface, Windows, Bing, and more — Microsoft is ready to talk more about its AI plans at a “special event” in New York City today. We're expecting to hear about three new Surface devices … | Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching across all of its apps and services, including Office 365, from September 26 — Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” just called Copilot …
More: VentureBeat and Engadget
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple spent billions of dollars developing a modem chip for the new iPhones to cut ties with Qualcomm, but the chip was slow and prone to overheating — The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter foe
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Korean game publisher Krafton says Dead Space developer Striking Distance's CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new game flopped — Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
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| Ashley Stewart / Insider: |
Sources: Panos Panay's abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products, and discussed reorganizing his hardware unit — - Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years. — Panay is expected …
More: Windows Central, Thurrott, XDA Developers, OnMSFT.com, and GeekWire
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| Wired: |
Documents show that up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects were euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk says no primates died due to implants — Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …
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| Mariam Sunny / Reuters: |
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| Bloomberg: |
The DOJ removes public access to Google's emails, charts, and internal presentations that had come out as evidence in the antitrust lawsuit against the company — Trial is already limited in visibility to those who personally attend court … Google had challenged the government's posting … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Facebook's “identity system”, including a new logo to confidently express the platform's “core blue color”, and refines Facebook's emoji Reactions — Meta is updating Facebook's “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo. — Just kidding!
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple's FineWoven accessories and iPhone cases are really bad: they are expensive, quickly show wear, and scratch very easily, leaving seemingly permanent marks — Apple's new FineWoven iPhone cases and accessories are bad. Like, really bad. I've been puzzling over them for the past week, looking at them from different angles.
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| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to customers, less than a year after saying it would end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans on June 30 — Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023 — Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers …
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| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring writers and poets with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality and creativity of AI tools — Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub expands Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to individual subscribers, after launching the tool for business users in July 2023 — Three months ago, GitHub launched Copilot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making it available … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Amazon's Eero announces the Eero Max 7, its first router to support Wi-Fi 7, offering 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz and “up to 4.3 Gbps” wireless throughput, for $600+ — Eero has announced a powerful new top-of-the-line router called the Eero Max 7. It's Eero's first router to support …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Google has extensively discussed dropping Broadcom for AI chips as early as 2027 to design its own TPUs, aiming to save billions of dollars annually — Google executives have extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as a supplier of artificial intelligence chips as early as 2027 … | Keisha Oleaga / nft now: |
A look at AI-generated geometric art crafted using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet, a neural network structure that adds extra conditions to diffusion models — This past weekend, a new kind of artwork made waves across the Internet: AI-generated spiral art.
More: Ars Technica and WinBuzzer
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI teases DALL-E 3, which can be summoned and controlled using ChatGPT, and plans to make the tool available to ChatGPT+ and enterprise customers in October — OpenAI is offering an early look at DALL-E 3, the next version of its image generation tool.
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Mastodon: @BartWronski@mastodon …. X: @sama, @officiallogank, @openai, @gdb, @nickfloats, @aravsrinivas, @drjimfan, @scobleizer, @tomlikesrobots, @stokel, @marvinvonhagen, and @model_mechanic. LinkedIn: Jordan Mazer
Forums: Hacker News, r/aiwars, r/bing, r/StableDiffusion, r/ChatGPTPro, r/OpenAI, and r/dalle2
| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
A look at Poisson flow generative models, a physics-inspired alternative to diffusion-based AI models that can create same quality images 10 to 20 times faster — Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images. Alternatives based on the process behind …
More: WinBuzzer. Bluesky: @legalba.bsky.social. X: @quantamagazine, @7homaslin, @quantamagazine, and @zimingliu11. LinkedIn: Samir Kumar
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces a new feature for Shorts called Dream Screen, letting users create an AI-generated video or image background, rolling out early next year — YouTube today announced a new feature coming to its short-form video platform Shorts that will allow users to leverage AI tools to create videos.| Financial Times: |
After recent IPOs, Arm and Instacart fall by 20%+ from their highs; Arm closed at $52.91 on September 20, down 4% on its offer price, while Instacart was flat — Newly listed tech companies soared in their public debuts but have fallen quickly from those highsSponsor Posts
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