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September 11, 2024, 6:25 PM
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Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equity financing at a $150B valuation and raise $5B in debt from banks in the form of a revolving credit facility  —  - Company set to raise $6.5 billion in equity financing  — Banks also in talks to issue startup $5 billion in debt
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google partners with The Internet Archive to link to the Wayback Machine in Search, letting users view archived versions of webpages under “About this page”  —  Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Adobe says generative AI features powered by its Firefly Video model will be available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website  —  Users will get their first chance to try out Adobe's AI model for video generation in just a couple months.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material  —  Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed  —  Bluesky, the social networking startup now nearing 10 million users thanks to X's ban in Brazil, will now allow users to share videos …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media closed down over 10% after Trump's debate with Harris, ending at their lowest level since they began publicly trading  —  The share price of Trump Media plunged more than 10% on Wednesday, a day after majority shareholder Donald Trump gave …
Jake Evans / ABC:
Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook and Instagram user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out, which isn't required under privacy law  —  In short:  —  Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API-serving platforms Le Chat and Le Platforme “soon”  —  French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text.
Taylor Swift / Taylor Swift on Instagram:
Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, noting that Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated image of her “endorsing” him prompted her to reveal her plans  —  Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight.  If you haven't already, now is a great time to do your research …
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David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

New York Times:
Sources: Trump personally told his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising his presidency; at least four spots have run at a cost of ~$5.5M

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney licenses a large group of titles to Netflix, including all five Ice Age movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Felicity, Elio, and more

More News

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
On Day 2 of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp executive testifying as a government witness said Google held publishers “hostage”
Brianna Sacks / Washington Post:
An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Meta says it is “investigating this issue”
Hans Peter Brondmo / Wired:
The former CEO of Everyday Robots, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a robot body
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sergey Brin says he's working at Google “pretty much every day” and that AI algorithmic improvements are “even outpacing the increased compute” put into models

Earlier Picks

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
A US district judge blocks Utah from enforcing the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, set to take effect on October 1, saying the law likely violates the 1A
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWrite's 70B-parameter AI model, says he “got ahead” of himself but doesn't explain why his model underperformed
Joe Mayes / Bloomberg:
Amazon plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its AWS business, expecting to support up to 14K jobs and contribute £14B to the UK's GDP between 2024 and 2028
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4
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