Techmeme: Crunchbase: Black US founders raised ~$39.7M, or 0.13% of all capital allocated to startups in Q3 2023, down from $212M in Q2, $352M in Q1, and $1B in Q3 2022 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple was caught flat-footed by the generative AI fever and is on course to spend ~$1B/year to add 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.

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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:

Gurman: Apple is planning a “Mac-centered product launch” around October's end and may release an updated 24-inch iMac; the current model launched in April 2021 — Apple is planning a Mac-focused product launch, likely including the announcement of a refreshed 24-inch iMac …

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Forums: Hacker News, r/mac, and MacRumors Forums

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:

Crunchbase: Black US founders raised ~$39.7M, or 0.13% of all capital allocated to startups in Q3 2023, down from $212M in Q2, $352M in Q1, and $1B in Q3 2022 — Black founders raised 0.13% of all capital allocated to U.S. startups in Q3, according to Crunchbase. That's about $39.7 million out of $29.9 billion.

Threads: @carnage4life. X: @johnhenrystyle, @poettpetty, and @dominicmadori

LinkedIn: Gary Stewart, Jailany Thiaw, Pedro Moore, and Johnnie Turnage

Beth Wang / Bloomberg Law:

A US jury finds Google guilty of gender bias and awards female executive Ulku Rowe $1M+, the first pay discrimination case against Google since 2018's 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

Financial Times:

The Global Times: China opens a Foxconn investigation over tax and land use, inspecting Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, and Hubei sites; Foxconn plans to cooperate — Tax authorities said to have inspected a number of the Apple supplier's sites in provinces — China has launched an investigation …

More: The Register, BBC, Channel NewsAsia, Forexlive, The Straits Times, Global Times, Associated Press, Nikkei Asia, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Business Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and New York Times

X: @brianroemmele and @martijnrasser

LinkedIn: Wei-Chieh Wang and Martijn Rasser

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.

More: Financial Times. Threads: @renee.diresta, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life

X: @moonalice, @alenapopova, @lizzadwoskin, @catherinebelton, @lizzadwoskin, @gerritd, and @maxboot. Forums: Slashdot

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Martin Goetz, who received the first US software patent, died on October 10 at 93; Goetz was awarded a patent for data-sorting software for mainframes in 1968 — “I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.

More: International Business Times and The Verge

Mastodon: @JustCodeCulture …. X: @_msw_. LinkedIn: Ruth Malloy and Daniel Tunkelang

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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LinkedIn: Daniel Tunkelang, Priel Manes, Ouriel Ohayon 🇮 …, Anat Paiss, Masha Shal Bar, and Barak Orbach

Wall Street Journal:

Q&A with Fei-Fei Li and NTIA head Alan Davidson on regulating AI, US and China tech competition, the representation of women and PoC in AI discussions, 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.

LinkedIn: Fei-Fei Li and Rudolf Wagner

Nikkei Asia:

Analysis: the iPhone 15 lineup features ~10% costlier components than the iPhone 14 models; iPhone 15 Pro Max costs rose to $558, up 12% from iPhone 14 Pro Max — Apple largely shoulders costs of zoom camera and 3-nm chip: Nikkei analysis — South Korea provided 29% of the latest iPhone series' parts …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, MacRumors, and XDA Developers

X: @thurrott and @sondesix. Forums: MacRumors Forums

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.

X: @stevelohr, @vore_jm, @dataengines, @allen_ai, @seangraf, @billhilf, @stevelohr, @uwcse, @metaviv, and @carysafoko

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

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 — The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news on the platform is …

More: Center for an Informed Public and Android Headlines

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Associated Press:

A federal judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11, or face sanctions up to dismissal of the lawsuit

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:

Comcast reports Peacock Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to $1.82B, adjusted EBITDA of $261M, its second consecutive profitable quarter, and subscribers up 17% to 48M

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FIFA opens tender for US media rights to the 2030 World Cup, with a 2034 option; it prefers one buyer for English and Spanish rights and wants bids by Nov. 19

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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

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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

More: 404 Media, The Seattle Times, and Ars Technica

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Bloomberg:

Sources: of the G7 leaders, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and Olaf Scholz plan to skip the UK's Bletchley Park AI summit in November, denting the event's profile

More: Cryptopolitan. X: @jamienimmo63, @nicholas_yhchan, and @kitty_donaldson

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

More: Nature. X: @cyrilzakka, @roxanadaneshjou, @roxanadaneshjou, @oluafolabi, @roxanadaneshjou, @npjdigitalmed, @irenetrampoline, and @roxanadaneshjou

LinkedIn: Vivek Das, PhD, M.Sc. and Jack Freeborn. Forums: Beehaw

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

More: TechRadar, Mashable, The Decoder, and BGR

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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

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LinkedIn: Shailesh Kulkarni, Abhilash Mohanty, and Satyendra Khare

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

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