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Meta debuts the $500 Quest 3, featuring a 30% higher resolution than the Quest 2, double the processing power, new lenses, a thinner design, and new controllers — - New mixed-reality headset to start at $500, a $200 increase — Apple to launch rival device, Vision Pro, early next year
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| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, Quest 3, his Elon Musk rivalry, decentralized social media, “open-source” AI tools, encryption, and more — In a rare interview, Meta's CEO dives into where AI is going next, the new Quest 3 headset, and his ongoing rivalry with Elon Musk.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Meta Quest 3: an iterative update, but its mixed reality pass through video is less grainy than the Quest Pro and offers color, unlike the Quest 2 — An upgraded VR game console with an extra feature. … I can't tell if Meta is trying too hard to make me look at the world through …
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| Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta announces AI-generated chat stickers for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and unveils new AI-powered image editing tools for Instagram — New generative AI tools announced Wednesday at Meta's Connect event will allow users to edit images and create stickers using text prompts.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta unveils a Meta AI assistant for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, and 28 AI characters based on celebrities like MrBeast, Charli D'Amelio, and Snoop Dogg — The Meta AI assistant is coming to WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, along with dozens of AI characters based on celebrities like MrBeast and Charli D'Amelio.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US and Japan warn that the China-backed BlackTech hacking group is breaching network devices, including Cisco's, to install backdoors on corporate networks — US and Japanese law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of the Chinese ‘BlackTech’ hackers breaching network devices … | Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now browse the web, available first to Plus and Enterprise users, and the chatbot is “no longer limited to data before September 2021” — ChatGPT users will now be able to surf the web, Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI said on Wednesday …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirms that former Microsoft CPO Panos Panay will be joining Amazon at the end of October to lead its devices and services division — It's official: Panos Panay, Microsoft's former product lead, is headed to Amazon. … “As a strong product builder and inventor …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: a classic look, 12MP vs. 5MP makes a big difference, some audio leakage, and a promising tool for content creators — Unlike the original, I kind of see where Meta's going with its second-gen smart glasses.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US DOJ sues eBay for allegedly breaking environmental laws by allowing sales of harmful products, like 343K+ devices that “defeat” vehicle emission controls — The U.S. government on Wednesday sued eBay (EBAY.O), accusing the online platform of violating the Clean Air Act …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Mistral AI makes its first LLM, Mistral 7B, which the company claims outperforms open models up to 13B parameters, free to all without restrictions — The most popular language models out there may be accessed via API, but open models — as far as that term can be taken seriously — are gaining ground.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Microsoft says the company has tried for years to displace Google as the iPhone's default search engine, but Apple never seriously considered Bing — - Executive testifies Microsoft sought browser switch for years — ‘Apple is making more money on Bing existing than Bing does’
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
Epic asks the US Supreme Court to review a judge's 2021 ruling that Apple's App Store policies don't violate federal antitrust laws — Epic's request is the latest in a long-running battle between the maker of Fortnite and Apple over the way the iPhone maker runs its marketplace.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, MacRumors, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Blue's News, Reuters, AppleInsider, and WRAL TechWire
| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
SpaceX receives its first contract from the US Space Force, valued up to $70M, to provide customized satellite communications for the military under Starshield — - Contract extends billionaire's role as a defense contractor — Starshield provides customized satellite communications| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan plans to retire in March 2024, after almost 30 years with the PlayStation business — Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, is stepping down after almost 30 years with the company.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
B2B payments startup Slope, which in April debuted SlopeGPT as the first GPT-powered payments risk model, raised $30M led by Union Square; Sam Altman invested — Slope, a business-to-business payments platform for enterprise companies, closed on a venture round of $30 million to expand its business.
More: VentureBeat, San Francisco Business Journal, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and Slope
LinkedIn: Slope and Marcelo Lima
| Bloomberg: |
Kraken plans to offer US-listed stock and ETF trading, a source says in the US and the UK through a new division, Kraken Securities, targeted for a 2024 launch — - Kraken targeting 2024 launch for stock trading: person — Move comes almost two years after Bitcoin's $69,000 peak| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Researchers say X removed a feature letting users to report election misinformation, launched in the US, Australia, and South Korea in 2021 and expanded in 2022 — Elon Musk's X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: |
Bard conversations turn up in Google search results; Google says Bard lets users share chats, but they shouldn't be indexed, and the company is working on a fix — Conversations with the Google chatbot turned up in search results for common queries—an issue the company says was an error.
More: Search Engine Roundtable and BigTechWire
| Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: |
In a message to Canadian users, Disney+ says it updated its subscriber agreement to limit the usage of the service to a single household, effective November 1 — The streamer is updating its subscriber agreement in Canada to limit usage to a single household.| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
LG Gram 17 Pro review: a discrete GPU, lightweight at 3.2 lbs, a 144Hz screen, and ample ports, but a flimsy chassis and not the best Nvidia GPU for the price — LG's new Gram Pro is a three-pound laptop with an RTX GPU inside — a great achievement for LG and a fairly niche product for the rest of us.| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
The US DoD awards Palantir a three-year $250M R&D contract for AI services, building on the work the company does since at least 2018 for the Army Research Lab — The new three-year deal demonstrates the company's closeness to the US government, as well as its growing presence at the intersection of AI and defense.
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