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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple was caught off guard by the generative AI fever and is on course to spend ~$1B/year to deploy the tech across iOS 18, Siri, Music, and other apps  —  But the company is now preparing its response and plans to develop features for its full range of devices.
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Gurman: Apple is planning a “Mac-centered product launch” by the end of October that could see the release of an updated 24-inch iMac  —  Apple is planning a Mac-focused product launch, likely including the announcement of a refreshed 24-inch iMac, for the end of this month, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.
Beth Wang / Bloomberg Law:
A US jury finds Google guilty of gender bias and awards female executive Ulku Rowe $1M+, in the first such case filed against Google after 2018's mass walkouts  —  Google LLC treated female executive Ulku Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender and must pay her more than $1 million …
More: The Verge and Engadget
Threads: @carnage4life.  Mastodon: @skry@mastodon.social.  X: @sarumbear.  LinkedIn: Judah Richardson, MSME and Daniel Tunkelang
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Okta's stock closed down 11.57% on October 20 after the cybersecurity firm said a hacker used a stolen credential to access its support system and client files  —  - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Paddy Cosgrave steps down as the CEO of Web Summit, which plans to appoint a new CEO; the event, set to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned  —  Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region using wide-ranging online disinformation campaigns  —  This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitch now lets creators simulcast across any live streaming service, with caveats, and adds doxxing and swatting to its Off-Service Conduct enforcement list  —  Previously, streamers could simulcast on mobile platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but as of Friday, Twitch is significantly broadening …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A look at the Allen Institute for AI's plan to build “open” generative AI model OLMo; the nonprofit research center is led by former Apple ML leader Ali Farhadi  —  The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
SCOTUS pauses a ruling banning Biden administration officials from contacting social media platforms about misinformation and agrees to hear the DOJ's appeal  —  The court agreed to hear the administration's appeal, setting the stage for a major ruling on what the government may do to encourage sites to delete asserted misinformation.
Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Fei-Fei Li and NTIA head Alan Davidson on regulating AI, tech competition between the US and China, representation of women and PoC in AI, and more  —  Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and the Commerce Department's Alan Davidson agree that artificial intelligence has the potential to do a lot of good.

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From Mediagazer

Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Source: the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Kash Patel's use of FBI staff for his girlfriend's security

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
The FCC launches a review of TV Parental Guidelines, citing concerns that “gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children's programs”

Brian Stelter / CNN:
WBD shareholders vote early Thursday on the Paramount deal, likely to be OK'ed; David Ellison will be in DC later for Paramount's event honoring the White House

More News

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Research: seven influential but unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language Israel-Hamas war news on X from October 7 to 10
Wall Street Journal:
How Meta is struggling to moderate Israel-Hamas war content amid internal staff friction and its tools' failure to parse Arabic dialects and lack of Hebrew data
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' feature access based on their violation, instead of giving them strikes, and avoids permanent bans
More: Gizmodo.  Threads: @crumbler.  Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social.  X: @davidparis.  LinkedIn: Farzaneh Badiei, PhD, David Sullivan, and Joshua C. Harris
Associated Press:
Research: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude perpetuated harmful, inaccurate, race-based misconceptions and falsehoods when responding to nine medical questions

Earlier Picks

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis
Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India:
Google expands Google Pay's consumer and merchant credit features in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more
Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
Nvidia Research announces Eureka, an AI agent powered by GPT-4 that autonomously writes reward algorithms to teach robots to perform complex skills like a human
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