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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with Bard Extensions, which lets the chatbot use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive: the feature hallucinated emails, made wrong travel plans, and more — The chatbot now pulls information from a user's Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive accounts. The feature leaves a lot to be desired.| The Verge: |
Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, the Alexa Eye Gaze accessibility feature, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more — Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/aiwars, r/bing, r/ChatGPTPro, r/OpenAI, and r/dalle2
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple's FineWoven accessories and iPhone cases are really bad: they're 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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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
PayPal says select Venmo users can now purchase its stablecoin PYUSD, with a rollout to more users in the coming weeks, in addition to BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC — PayPal announced on Wednesday that Venmo users will be able to buy PayPal's new stablecoin, PayPal USD, increasing the number …
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| 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. X: @paulg, @jackbutcher, @jackbutcher, @stephanvasement, @jackbutcher, @bryanbrinkman, @beeple, and @0xgaut
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| 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 …
More: The GitHub Blog, Visual Studio Magazine, Neowin, and The Verge
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
MotherDuck, which is commercializing the database platform DuckDB, raised a $52.5M Series B at a $400M post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $100M — A few weeks ago, it was reported that MotherDuck, the company commercializing the lightweight database platform DuckDB …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
In its Prime lawsuit, the FTC alleges three Amazon executives played key roles in enrolling customers unwittingly and making it hard to cancel subscriptions — Federal agency alleges Amazon executives were aware of enrolling customers unwittingly and erecting intentional hurdles to cancellation
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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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| Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: |
The developer behind AstroPepeX details using ChatGPT to name and launch the ERC-20 memecoin, which has raked in $12.9M in trading volume over the past 24 hours — An anonymous Ethereum developer has released code that he says instructs artificial intelligence tools to deploy new ERC-20 tokens.
More: Cryptopolitan. X: @croissanteth, @mrforevernft, @croissanteth, @croissanteth, @croissanteth, @croissanteth, @croissanteth, @croissanteth, and @croissanteth
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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| Bloomberg: |
Klaviyo closes up 9.2% in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the Shopify-backed e-commerce marketing company at $9.9B on a fully diluted basis — - Email software firm closes debut at $9.9 billion valuation — Founder Bialecki's fortune rises to $3.4 billion with IPO
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
With blistering public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator and investors, Y Combinator appears curiously on the defensive lately — Y Combinator has been on the defense as of late. — This past weekend, leaders from the popular accelerator were vocal on X (formerly known as Twitter) …
More: CB Insights and The Information
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Forums: Hacker News and r/ycombinator
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Documents: Amazon scrapped a planned 2% fee on merchants that don't use its shipping services; disclosed in August, the fee was set to take effect on October 1 — - Levy was to affect merchants that don't use Amazon logistics — US expected to file antitrust suit against company this month
More: Best Stocks, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, The Verge, and Reuters
| 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 …
X: @quantamagazine, @7homaslin, @quantamagazine, and @zimingliu11. LinkedIn: Samir Kumar. Forums: Hacker News
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber plans to accept the US food stamps EBT card and health insurance-issued FSA and flex cards for Uber Eats grocery delivery orders, starting in 2024 — Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps and healthcare benefits as payment for grocery delivery orders, the company announced Wednesday.
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