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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
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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 … | Brian Fung / CNN: |
Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue — Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …
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| Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal: |
Google adds generative AI features to its Performance Max ad platform, rolling out first as a beta to all US advertisers by the end of the year — Google launches generative AI in Performance Max to help marketers easily create customized text and image ads at scale.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Barack Obama on regulating social media and AI, privacy bills, Biden's EO on AI, incumbents embracing AI regulation, generative AI IP issues, and more — The former president joined me on Decoder to discuss AI regulation, the First Amendment, and of course, what apps he has on his homescreen.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
IBM debuts a $500M enterprise AI venture fund to invest in startups across all 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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Sources: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle is considering an IPO early in 2024; Circle was valued at $9B when it tried to go public via SPAC in 2022 — - Backers include Goldman Sachs, General Catalyst and BlackRock — Circle had tried to go public via blank-check deal in 2022| ABC: |
Australian mobile network Optus is suffering an outage impacting millions of customers, including major hospitals and Melbourne's Metro Trains — Loading... Optus says some services are “gradually being restored” but it may take a few more hours until the whole network is back online. — Key points:
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Document: Coatue cut the value of its $120M stake in OpenSea to $13M as of Q2 2023, implying a valuation of $1.4B or less, down from $13.3B in January 2022 — One of OpenSea's biggest investors has marked down by 90% its stake in the struggling non-fungible-token marketplace … | Harri Weber / TechCrunch: |
Ann Arbor-based autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility, backed by Toyota and BMW, raised a $105M Series D led by NTT Group, taking its total funding to $300M+ — May Mobility has raised hundreds of millions from some of the biggest names in the auto industry, but if you haven't heard …
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Milan-based Qomodo, which offers multiple payment services to consumers and retailers, including BNPL options, raised a €34.5M pre-seed led by Fasanara Capital — Milan-based payment aggregator Qomodo raises €34.5 million in Pre-Seed funding, offering a variety …
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| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
The CFPB proposes new powers to oversee companies that offer digital wallets and payment apps facilitating 5M+ transactions per year, or currently ~17 companies — Proposal would subject tech companies such as Apple and Google to new rules — The top US consumer finance regulator is seeking … | 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.
More: Mashable, TechRadar, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, and The Verge
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Toast reports Q3 revenue up 37% YoY to $1.03B, matching estimates, and lowers the upper range of its FY 2023 revenue forecast; TOST drops 18%+ — Profit outlook moves higher, but one analyst is concerned about the new top-line forecast — Shares of Toast Inc. were getting singed …
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Crunchyroll debuts Game Vault, offering five mobile games for free to subscribers of its two higher-cost tiers, and promises 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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds a no-cost Azure AI option for Nvidia GPU clusters to its Startups Founders Hub, in preview first for YC startups and coming later to M12 startups — In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” … | Platformer: |
Sources: employees at X are increasingly being asked to spend time working on xAI initiatives, as xAI is using GPUs that once belonged to Twitter — Today, some notes on how the tech industry's tectonic shift toward artificial intelligence is playing out inside X — and raising questions … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Coupang reports Q3 net revenue up 21% YoY to $6.2B, vs. $5.9B est., net income of $91.3M, vs. $119M est., and active customers up 14% YoY to a record 20.4M+ — - Despite disappointing profit, revenue beats projections — Korea's top online mall is stepping up investments in Taiwan
More: PYMNTS.com, The Korea Times, and Coupang
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is developing a new LLM, codenamed Olympus, which could be announced by December and may power new features for the online store, Alexa, and AWS — Uber is finally on the right road. That could be Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's motto today, as the ride-hailing … | Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink: neuroscientists worry over hype given the level of coverage, but its FDA-approved trial is exciting and its tech is 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 Information, Insider, New York Post, and Decrypt
| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung unveils a generative AI model called Gauss, which is being used for employee productivity internally and will be expanded to product applications — Samsung has for the first time publicly unveiled its own generative AI model dubbed Samsung Gauss on Wednesday.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit starts testing its own add-ons, including those that make posts with live scoreboards and that help mods ban spammers, with a small number of subreddits — Reddit is beginning to test the first of its own add-ons built through its Developer Platform.| Reuters: |
Bumble reports Q3 revenue up 18.4% YoY to $275.5M, vs. $277M est., net earnings down 13% YoY to $23.1M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; BMBL drops 6%+ — Bumble (BMBL.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, in a sign that sticky inflation …
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $467M, vs. $478.9M est., trading revenue down 11% YoY to $185M, including crypto trading down 55% YoY; HOOD drops 8%+ — - Third-quarter crypto notional volumes fell 55% on the year — Online brokerage plans to launch EU crypto trading in weeksSponsor Posts
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