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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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Threads: @gwestr. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @markgurman, @sherifhanna, @markgurman, @gampawe, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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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| 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: Business Post, Business Today, Reuters, The Statesman, Global Times, The Information, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, BBC, Business Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, and The Straits Times
X: @brianroemmele and @martijnrasser
LinkedIn: Wei-Chieh Wang and Martijn Rasser
| 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
| 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: @carnage4life, @renee.diresta, and @carnage4life
X: @alenapopova, @lizzadwoskin, @moonalice, @catherinebelton, @lizzadwoskin, @gerritd, and @maxboot. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Japan's FTC opens an investigation into Google over alleged antitrust violations; a report says the focus will be if Google asked OEMs to prioritize its search — - The FTC said it is looking into Google's business practices — The US is mounting a broad investigation into the company| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
A profile of data labeler Scale AI, which has a $249M contract with the US DoD and was the first AI company to have an LLM deployed on a classified network — The tech start-up says the United States needs Silicon Valley to compete with China. Others fear a deadly arms race.
X: @hkanji, @anabrandusescu, @lizzadwoskin, and @charlesrollet1
| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: the iPhone 15 lineup has ~10% more expensive components than the iPhone 14 lineup; iPhone 15 Pro Max costs rose to $558, up 12% from the 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: MySmartPrice, iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, MacRumors, and XDA Developers
| 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
| 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
| Mathias Döpfner / Insider: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella: AI as Microsoft's biggest opportunity, regrets on missing the mobile phone category, and doubling down as a game publisher and producer — - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently sat for an interview at Axel Springer's Berlin headquarters.
Forums: r/artificial
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