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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google unveils the $100 Google TV Streamer, with better performance than Chromecast with Google TV, Thread and Matter support, and more, shipping September 24 — Google isn't waiting for its upcoming hardware event to announce the Chromecast's successor. Alongside the new, sleeker Nest Thermostat …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ShieldAndroidTV, and r/google
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google unveils Gemini-based features for Google Home, coming later in 2024: descriptive captions for Nest camera videos, a smarter Assistant for Nest, and more — Amazon has already announced its plans for a smarter Alexa to power your home. Now, it's Google's turn to promise that it can produce a better …
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LinkedIn: Adina R., Taylor Callahan, and Sung Bai
Forums: r/Nest, r/Android, and r/googlehome
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says the Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until stock runs out, as the company stops making the Chromecast, first launched in 2013 — The first Chromecast was announced in July of 2013 with the goal of letting people stream content from phones to televisions.
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Forums: r/LinusTechTips and r/Chromecast
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
X sues the World Federation of Advertisers, GARM, and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, and Unilever over what Linda Yaccarino calls an “illegal boycott” — Members include major tech companies, advertisers, agencies, ad tech firms and advertising coalitions.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Behind the YouTube influencers, WhatsApp and Telegram groups, and services like FewFeed fueling Facebook's problem of creators profiting from viral “AI slop” — Gyan Abhishek is standing in front of a giant touch screen, like Jim Cramer on Mad Money or an ESPN talking head analyzing a football play.
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| John Schulman / @johnschulman2: |
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research” — I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/reinforcementlearning, and Slashdot
| The Information: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he's taking a sabbatical through the end of 2024; a source says OpenAI product leader Peter Deng, who joined in 2023, left — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
US v. Google: a judge rules Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and used exclusive agreements to raise prices without any competition — A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Music debuts Maestro, an AI-powered playlist generator, and Topics, which helps users find podcast episodes by topic and is powered by both AI and humans — Amazon Music announced Tuesday the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Topics,” which allows users to explore podcast episodes …
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| CNBC: |
Microsoft says Delta, which said it had to manually reset ~40K PC servers because of CrowdStrike, had “not modernized its IT infrastructure” and refused “help” — Microsoft fired back at Delta Air Lines on Tuesday after the carrier said it would seek damages …
More: The Verge, Axios, Windows Central, Reuters, DatacenterDynamics, Bloomberg, Neowin, and Newser
Forums: r/delta and r/technology
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel says its Foundry's lead products on Intel 18A are booting and expects the first external customer chip design tape out in H1 2025 — Following Intel's painful Q2 earnings call and the announcement of their 2025 cost reduction plan last week, it has become increasingly evident …
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @intelnews, @markhachman, @benbajarin, @aschilling, and @pgelsinger. LinkedIn: Pat Gelsinger. Forums: r/hardware
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.7B, Gross Bookings up 19% YoY to $40B, vs. $39.7B est., Mobility Gross Bookings up 23% YoY to $20.6B, and 7.4M drivers — - Results driven by better-than-expected growth in ridehailing — Autonomous rides grew six-fold from year ago through partners| Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica: |
A researcher finds another flaw in Georgia's voter registration cancellation portal, which has had bugs that made submitting requests for any Georgian trivial — The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name …
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Mastodon: @aardrian@toot.cafe, @north@xn, and @ProPublica@newsie.social
Forums: r/KamalaHarris, r/technology, and r/politics
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Release notes indicate macOS may get Apple Intelligence in the EU, unlike iOS and iPadOS, perhaps because of differences in how DMA requirements apply — Apple Intelligence is one of the biggest tentpoles of this fall's new OS updates. The AI features in iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Samsung starts mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it is 9% thinner than most LPDDR5X and improves devices' heat resistance by 21.2% — The new package frees additional space. — Samsung has started mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases patches for 46 Android security vulnerabilities, including a kernel zero-day the company says “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — Android security updates this month patch 46 vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) exploited in targeted attacks.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit Q2: revenue rose 54% YoY to $281.2M, vs. $254M est., Daily Active Uniques increased 51% YoY to 91.2M, and net loss dropped from $41.1M to $10.1M YoY — Reddit reported second-quarter results on Tuesday that topped analysts' estimates. — Here are the key numbers:
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, and Reddit Upvoted
| Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg: |
Instacart reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $823M, vs. $806M est., gross transaction value up 10% to $8.19B; CART jumps 7%+ after hours — - Revenue and value of orders beat Wall Street's expectations — Advertising and other non-delivery sales exceeded estimates
More: Instacart
| Reuters: |
ByteDance debuts AI text-to-video app Jimeng AI on iOS in China, after its July 31 Android release; China's Kuaishou released Kling AI in beta globally in July — ByteDance has expanded its offering of a software that can generate videos based on text prompts, joining a growing number … Sponsor Posts
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