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September 21, 2023, 5:15 PM
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils the 14.4" Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel's 13th Gen i7 H chips, Nvidia's RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB of storage, for $1,999+  —  Microsoft just showed off its new high-end convertible laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, at its launch event in New York City.
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Microsoft unveils the 12.4" Surface Laptop Go 3, with Intel 12th Gen CPUs, Iris Xe GPUs, up to 16GB of RAM, and a 15-hour battery for $799+, coming on October 3  —  Microsoft says it's 88 percent faster than the original model.  —  Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Go 3 during its Surface event on Thursday.
Nathan Edwards / The Verge:
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching on September 26 across all its apps and services, including Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing  —  Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th.  The new “AI companion,” …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to release its next Windows 11 update, 22H2, on September 26, with an AI-powered Copilot and Paint, a redesigned File Explorer, and more  —  Microsoft will release its next big Windows 11 update on September 26th.  The update will include the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to release Microsoft 365 Copilot on November 1 for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans for $30 per month per user
Bloomberg:
Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk in cash for $157 per share, a 31% premium on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B  —  - Acquisition is largest deal ever for networking stalwart  — Cisco is trying to lessen dependence on one-time sales
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube debuts YouTube Create, an app that lets creators edit videos, adding effects, GIFs, royalty-free tracks, and more, in beta on Android in eight markets  —  YouTube this morning introduced a new app for creators, YouTube Create, that will offer a suite of easy-to-use and free tools …
Ashley Stewart / Insider:
Sources: Panos Panay's abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products in his division, and discussed reorganizing the unit  —  - Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
South Korea-based game publisher Krafton says Striking Distance Studios' CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new horror game flopped  —  Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Apple's failed plan to cut out Qualcomm and develop its own modem chip for the iPhone 15 lineup; sources say 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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, which makes it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more  —  As changes at Elon Musk's X continue to push former Twitter users to seek alternatives, the open-sourced, decentralized social network Mastodon …
Wired:
Docs: up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects had to be euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk said no primates died because of the implants  —  Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants.  A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to clients, less than a year after committing to end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans as of June 30  —  Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023  —  Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers …
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Bastian Lehmann's TipTop launches an app that scans for past purchases in users' Gmail and Amazon accounts and offers to buy their used products at a fair value  —  Billed as a “reverse Postmates,” TipTop has launched its first app, TipTop Cash, with the promise to help shoppers resell products like used iPhones.

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From Mediagazer

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA's board adopts a resolution to formally resist Paramount's WBD deal unless “enforceable safeguards” are established against a drop in production

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
The Atlantic files to dismiss FBI Director Kash Patel's $250M defamation suit, calling it “politically motivated”, and seeks DOJ records to uphold its reporting

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
London-based European Technology Network, a TBPN-like news show livestreaming 5x per week on YouTube and X, raised a $1.6M seed from Axel Springer and others

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Wayne Ma / The Information:
Source: Google extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as its TPU supplier as early as 2027 and designing the chips itself to save billions of dollars annually

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Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine:
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Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt:
AstroPepeX's developer details how he used ChatGPT to name and launch the ERC-20 memecoin, which has raked in $12.9M in trading volume over the past 24 hours
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Hands-on with Bard Extensions, which lets the chatbot use Gmail, Docs, and Drive data: the feature hallucinated emails, made unbookable travel plans, and more
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
Bloomberg:
The US DOJ removes public access to Google's emails, charts, and internal presentations that came out as evidence in its antitrust lawsuit against the company
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
With YC's increasingly heated public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator's founder and some investors, the VC appears curiously on the defensive lately
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
GitHub expands its Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to Copilot for Individual subscribers, after launching the tool for businesses in July 2023
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