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Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at OpenAI's custom GPT builder, which Sam Altman says the company wants to keep simple for now, and the risks in allowing anyone to create GPT agents  —  Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real  —  Today, let's talk about the implications …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins toward GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K-token context window, an April 2023 knowledge cutoff, a JSON mode, new modalities in the API, and 2x to 3x cheaper tokens
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Internal documents: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and sometimes had problems recognizing kids, prior to its California permitting crisis  —  In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
A recap of the first day of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial, where both sides made their opening statements and Epic Games Store head Steve Allison testified  —  The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
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 …
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Ahead of ex-Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony, internal documents and sources detail 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
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Meta plans to bar political and other regulated advertisers from using its new generative AI ad products, after US lawmakers warn about spreading misinformation  —  Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products …
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 …
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
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
WeWork, valued at $47B in 2019, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US and Canada locations, and reports liabilities ranging from $10B to $50B
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales from April to September grew 2% YoY to 6.84M  —  - Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday as it continues to get a bump from the …
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Austin-based Black Ore, which builds AI tools for the financial services industry, emerges from stealth with a $60M combined Seed and Series A led by a16z  —  Financial technology startup Black Ore is coming out of stealth with a major investment. … Austin-based Black Ore is the latest AI startup …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok

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Reuters:
Sources: Baidu ordered AI chips from Huawei in 2023 to shift away from Nvidia; a source says Baidu ordered 1,600 Ascend 910B chips, worth ~$62M, for 200 servers
Josh Ye / Reuters:
Sources: Pico plans to cut “hundreds” of jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since ByteDance acquired the VR unit in 2021, as global headset demand weakens

Earlier Picks

Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
After Big Tech cut thousands of trust and safety staff, Sero AI and other outsourcing startups sell the services, which experts warn bring problems of their own
Cade Metz / New York Times:
AI startup Vectara's Hallucination Evaluation Model: OpenAI's LLMs had the lowest hallucination rates, followed by Meta's; Google's PaLM-Chat had the highest
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony plans to terminate X integration on the PS5 and the PS4 as of November 13, meaning that users will not be able to post and view X content from the consoles
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
A survey of 167 researchers shows that 104 studies about X were canceled, suspended, or changed after X ended free academic access to its API and sued the CCDH
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft's Xbox and Inworld AI enter a multiyear partnership to create multi-platform AI-powered game development tools for narrative and character creation
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