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Rohan Goswami / CNBC:

Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the cybersecurity company said a hacker accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed client files — - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.

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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. X: @sarumbear. Forums: Hacker News and r/technology

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 …

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The Irish Times:

Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes — Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing — Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become …

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LinkedIn: Yudi Bar On, Yuval Passov, Sarit Amar, Tomer Frieder, Iftach Yair, Naomi Kraus, and Ran Davidovitz

Forums: r/technology and r/irishpolitics

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:

Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10 — The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …

More: Center for an Informed Public, NewsGuard, Android Headlines, MobileSyrup, and PCMag

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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.

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LinkedIn: Rachel Shepheard, Matt Fleischl, Steve Lohr, Ali Farhadi, and Ashley Boyd

Wall Street Journal:

How Meta is struggling to moderate Israel-Hamas war content, amid internal friction and its moderation tools' limited ability in parsing Arabic dialects — In trying to prevent Instagram and Facebook from contributing to further violence, Meta is juggling internal friction and limited tools to address a flood of content

More: 404 Media and Ars Technica

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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 — Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications. — Not long after OpenAI first unveiled …

More: Mashable, The Decoder, BGR, PetaPixel, Silicon Republic, MSPoweruser, and TweakTown

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Forums: r/artificial and Ars OpenForum

Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India:

Google expands consumer and merchant credit features on Google Pay in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more — Country Head & Vice President, Google India — With India looking at a billion connected people in the near future …

More: The Keyword India, TechCrunch, MediaNama, Analytics India Magazine, Inc42 Media, MediaNama, MediaNama, and TechCrunch

LinkedIn: Shailesh Kulkarni, Abhilash Mohanty, and Satyendra Khare

Casey Newton / Platformer:

A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans — Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them — Today, let's talk about how the traditional platform justice system …

More: Gizmodo. Threads: @crumbler. Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social. X: @davidparis. LinkedIn: David Sullivan and Joshua C. Harris

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:

Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform used by Boeing, the Obama Foundation, and others, raised a $37M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M — Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform, raises $37 million to fuel platform innovation and team expansion.

More: The SaaS News, Built In NYC, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and Hivebrite. X: @hivebrite

Bloomberg:

Sources: Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and most other G7 leaders plan to skip UK's Bletchley Park AI summit in November, denting the profile of the event — - Scholz, Trudeau don't plan to attend UK AI summit, people say — Premier wants nations to brand AI capable of catastrophic harm

More: The Guardian. X: @kitty_donaldson, @jamienimmo63, and @nicholas_yhchan

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Alex Ritman / Variety:

In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

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Associated Press:

Research: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude had instances of promoting harmful, inaccurate, race-based content when responding to nine medical questions

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Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature:

London-based Samaya AI unveils an AI tool that suggests better Wikipedia references for citations the tool identifies as unlikely to support associated claims

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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

More: Twitch, Decrypt, Mashable, PCMag, Engadget, Neowin, The Messenger, Dot Esports, and Game Rant

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Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:

Why LLMs, which don't induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don't truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on

More: arXiv.org and VentureBeat

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Wall Street Journal:

Q&A with Chris Cox on Meta's plans to incorporate generative AI into its apps, making AI chatbots with personality, like a Snoop Dogg dungeon master, and more

More: The Information and Bloomberg

X: @fahadkhan and @joannastern

Davide Castelvecchi / Nature:

IBM researchers unveil a “brain-inspired” NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory while consuming vastly less power

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Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial

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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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

Elon Musk says X plans to launch two new premium tiers: a lower cost tier with all the features but no reduction in ads, and a more expensive tier with no ads

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