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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 …
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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| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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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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| 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.| 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.| 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) …
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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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| 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 … | 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.| 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.| 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
More: Android Authority and 9to5Google
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Australian telecom Optus says some key services are “gradually being restored” after an hours-long mobile network outage affects over 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 weeks| 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.
More: Nieman Lab, Business Insider, Stock Market News, and Hindustan Times
| Sarah Wu / Reuters: |
As TSMC shifts more production outside Taiwan, a look the domestic chip industry's increasingly fraught complaints about land shortages across the island — Wearing rain ponchos and holding photos of their ancestral temples near Hsinchu, Taiwan's semiconductor capital …
X: @mgerrydoyle, @sarah_wu_, and @reuters
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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 …
More: Axios, TweakTown, Observer, Fortune, and ExtremeTech
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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
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| Dieter Holger / Wall Street Journal: |
How AI-driven robots and optical sorters are being used to pick up and sort recyclable trash, as US recyclers deal with labor shortages and rising costs — Recyclers struggle with a shortage of workers and rising costs. Robots and optical sorters may be able to help make the business more economically viable.Sponsor Posts
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