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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins to custom GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more — In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple last week paused developing iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and plans to resume work this week — - Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, Forbes, Neowin, Supercharged, and BGR
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Ahead of former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony, documents and sources detail staff debates over fostering growth while protecting young users — A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Tech Coalition, which includes Discord, Google, Meta, Roblox, Snap, and Amazon, unveil Lantern to share “signals” about child sexual exploitation and abuse — The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A recap of day one of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial; opening statements, Epic Games Store GM Steve Allison revealing the store isn't profitable, and more — The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Docs: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and had trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios, prior to its California permitting crisis — In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
IBM debuts a $500M enterprise AI venture fund, to invest in startups across stages, with no set target of annual investments or capital deployment timeline — IBM is dedicating $500 million to invest in generative AI startups focused on business customers.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company's 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its bet to reclaim chipmaking leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company's … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio's future under Microsoft, wrestling over releasing a game without live components, and more — Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft's huge acquisition …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google pushes an update for Pixel phones fixing security bugs and an Android 14 storage bug locking some owners, who use multiple profiles, out of their devices — Google's “solution” can't do anything for bootlooping devices. — It's the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch.
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| Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
WeWork's bankruptcy caps a years-long saga for Masayoshi Son, who overrode lieutenants' objections to hand Adam Neumann billions, losing SoftBank over $11.5B — - Co-working space's bankruptcy highlights billionaire's hubris — Few checks on SoftBank CEO as he prepares to go on offensive
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
European Parliament lawmakers approve political ad rules forcing Meta, Google, and others to clearly label such ads, who paid, how much, and for which elections — Big Tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political advertising on their platforms … | Katie Paul / Reuters: |
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LinkedIn: Jerry Nevins, David Lavine, and TG ✨Gergely Teglasy
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink: more coverage than rivals and neuroscientists worried over hype, but its FDA-approved trial is exciting and its tech potentially miraculous — Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people's heads—and not just figuratively. — Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career.
More: The Messenger, Insider, and New York Post
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Crunchyroll launches Game Vault with five mobile games, available for free to subscribers of its two higher-cost tiers, with a “new wave of titles coming soon” — Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. … The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault and is available starting today.
More: VentureBeat, CNET, Mashable, GameSpot, SlashGear, Destructoid, Variety, and IGN
| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google Photos' Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info — - Code within the latest version of Google Photos includes specific error messages that highlight the edits that Magic Editor will refuse to do.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub previews for YC startups a new Nvidia GPU cluster option for AI in Azure and aims to expand access to startups in M12 — In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” resources from its Azure cloud for developing AI models.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.3B, a $221M net income, gross bookings up 21% YoY to $35.3B, trips up 25% YoY to 2.4B, and a record 6.5M drivers — Revenue was up 11 percent from a year earlier, helping to generate $221 million in net income. — Uber on Tuesday reported financial results …
More: Uber, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Information, PhocusWire, and Barron's Online. X: @economyapp
| CNBC: |
Cloud monitoring company Datadog's stock jumps ~30% after reporting Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $547.5M, vs. $524.1M est., and forecasting Q4 sales above estimates — - Datadog surged nearly 30% in Tuesday trading after the company reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings and full-year guidance.
More: SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, The Motley Fool, Reuters, Tomasz Tunguz, Barron's Online, and KNSD-TV
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Shein aims for an $80B to $90B valuation in its US IPO, vs. a $50B to $60B valuation in recent private trades; Shein was valued at $100B in April 2022 — - Timing of Shein's IPO remains uncertain given volatile market — Valuation dropped to $50 billion in recent private trades
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| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp rolls out the ability to search for messages by date in its web client, to those enrolled in its beta program — WhatsApp is releasing a new search message by date feature to some beta testers who previously joined the official beta program of WhatsApp Web, making it easier …
More: Android Headlines, The News International, Times of India, Gadgets 360, Android Police, and Tuko.co.ke. X: @sahilk
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