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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Rockstar plans to begin promoting Grand Theft Auto VI, expected to be one of the decade's biggest video games, in December, coinciding with its 25th anniversary — The company plans to release a trailer for the game in December, according to a blog post by Rockstar's president Sam Houser.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
In a letter, Google and EU telcos called on the European Commission to designate iMessage as a “core” service to make the chat app fully compatible with rivals — Companies want chat app designated a ‘core’ service that would require it to be fully compatible with rivals
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to require advertisers to disclose running political ads with media altered by AI or other software, starting in early 2024, ahead of the US election — Facebook parent said new policy to go into effect beginning next year, ahead of U.S. presidential primaries
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| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Ahead of the 2024 US election, Microsoft plans to offer a new free tool to help US politicians fight deepfakes by authenticating their videos and photos — - Tool offering comes as concerns grow over fake photos, videos — Microsoft says Russia is ‘huge’ cyber, disinformation threat
More: Microsoft On the Issues, The Verge, Metacurity, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Ghacks, and MSPoweruser
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| Gearoid Reidy / Bloomberg: |
A look at Nintendo's movie push, as the company partners with Sony to work on a live-action Zelda movie, after the huge success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie — It's dangerous to go alone, and in teaming up with Sony and the man who made Marvel successful, Nintendo shows it has learned from past mistakes.| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung unveils Gauss, a generative AI model developed by Samsung Research, currently used for staff productivity with plans to expand to product applications — Samsung has for the first time publicly unveiled its own generative AI model dubbed Samsung Gauss on Wednesday.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
WhatsApp now lets iOS and Android users hide their location during calls by relaying the connection through its servers to obfuscate IP address metadata — WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy feature that helps Android and iOS users hide their location during calls by relaying the connection through WhatsApp servers.| Bryson Masse / VentureBeat: |
In a comment submitted to the US Copyright Office, the FTC warned that generative AI has enabled potential copyright infringement and consumer deception — The U.S. Copyright Office has already repeatedly weighed in on creations made with generative artificial intelligence (AI) …
More: Ars Technica, Decrypt, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and WinBuzzer
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| 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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
OpenAI reports a ChatGPT and API “major outage”, ongoing since 6AM PT, and plans a fix; users were greeted with a “ChatGPT is at capacity right now” message — OpenAI's ChatGPT service is back online after being down and inaccessible for its 100 million weekly active users.
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| Matt Growcoot / PetaPixel: |
Adobe's site for stock images lists AI-generated images of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and some small outlets have used them without labeling them as AI — As fears rise over fake imagery generated by artificial intelligence flooding the internet, one of the world's leading stock photo websites …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle is considering an IPO early in 2024; Circle was valued at $9B when the company 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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Microsoft and Oracle sign a multi-year deal to “support the explosive growth of AI services”, meaning Microsoft can access Oracle's Nvidia A100s and H100 GPUs — Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster — Demand for Microsoft's AI services …
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| Jacob Judah / MIT Technology Review: |
How .tk, the ccTLD for New Zealand's Tokelau territory that until recently had more users than any other ccTLD, became a domain of choice for cybercriminals — Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.| Caitlin Huston / Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify now offers US paid subscribers access to 15 hours of free audiobooks per month, after launching the service in the UK and Australia on October 3 — The podcast and music platform will offer U.S. paid subscribers 15 hours of free listening to audiobooks as it continues its rollout of the new offering.
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| Rob Golum / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q3 bookings up 20% YoY to $839.5M, beating $822M est., $81.1M EBITDA, revenue up 38% YoY to $713.2M, and DAUs up 20% YoY to 70.2M; RBLX jumps 13% — Roblox Corp., the video-game platform popular among teenagers, surged after posting third-quarter bookings and revenue that far exceeded Wall Street's projections.| Lauren Smiley / Wired: |
How San Francisco's citizen surveillance culture, with incidents often posted to X, helped unravel the story of a bloody street attack, causing viral outrage — When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry.| 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.
More: The Keyword, WinBuzzer, Engadget, Search Engine Roundtable, and The Verge
| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
Cruise recalls all 950 of its autonomous cars to update their software after one dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October — General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
Amazon cuts the price of an annual One Medical membership from $199 to $99 for Prime users, part of its plans to significantly expand its health care footprint — The tech giant will offer cheaper health care to Prime members via One Medical, a long-expected integration that could significantly expand its health care footprint
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ex-NYSE President Tom Farley's crypto exchange Bullish, fintech startup Figure, and crypto VC Proof Group are competing to buy FTX — Tom Farley's new firm joins two other suitors in auction for bankrupt crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
HSBC partners with Ripple to offer institutional clients a custody service for digital assets, expected to launch in 2024, complementing its HSBC Orion service — - Latest blockchain offering is expected to go live in 2024 — HSBC Holdings Plc plans to offer institutional clients …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb plans to revamp guest reviews, adding a new top-rated badge and tools to communicate more information about properties, as part of its winter update — Airbnb has given hotels a run for their money with offerings that are often more flexible, sometimes cheaper, and more characterful …
More: Airbnb Newsroom, Bloomberg, Fast Company, and PhocusWire
| ABC: |
Australian telecom Optus says its mobile network has been restored and “most services should now be online” after an hours-long outage affected 10M+ customers — Loading... Optus says some services are “gradually being restored” but it may take a few more hours until the whole network is back online.
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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 …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg positioned WhatsApp as a “next chapter” for Meta; WhatsApp now has more than 225 Channels that each have 1M+ followers — The messaging app, which Meta bought nearly a decade ago, was an asset that Mr. Zuckerberg largely left alone for a while. No longer.| New York Times: |
Google staff sign an open letter accusing the company of limiting pro-Palestinian speech and objecting to Project Nimbus, a $1.2B contract to supply Israel — Google has long been a hub for employee activism, including over the company's business with Israel.| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Letters: Samsung, Qualcomm, and others oppose India's plan to use ATSC 3.0 to bring live TV to phones, saying the hardware changes will add $30+ to each device — Samsung and Qualcomm are among those opposing India's choice of technology to bring live TV broadcasts on smartphones …
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