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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving the company after six and a half years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration” — - OpenAI's board is considering plans to restructure the firm to a for-profit business
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/technology, r/news, and r/ChatGPT
| Reuters: |
Sources: Sam Altman will receive equity in OpenAI for the first time, as it plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI names Mark Chen as new SVP of Research, and more — OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing.
More: Financial Times, The Indian Express, and The Information
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with Meta's Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.” — I wore Mark Zuckerberg's contact lenses.
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LinkedIn: Naamah Argaman, Josh I., Daniel Hill, Mudit Goel, Scott Stein, Bo-Huei Lin, Farzad Sangi, Mingfei Yan, Jeremy Snodgrass, and Darin Dishneau
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors — Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform?
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Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …, @jsnell@zeppelin.flights, and @stroughtonsmith …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more — Meta's CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he's done with politics, and more.
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Forums: r/technology, r/virtualreality, and r/OculusQuest
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company announced its first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, Llama 3.2, and more — Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival, Meta AI …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft lowers its FY 2024-25 bookings forecast to €1.95B, vs. €2.42B est., and delays Assassin's Creed Shadows to February 14, 2025; UBI closes down 4.52% — Ubisoft Entertainment SA updated its financial targets as it delayed the hotly-anticipated Assassin's Creed Shadows video …
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Forums: r/MauLer, r/Asmongold, and r/Games
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ — Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it's a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
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LinkedIn: Greg Manyak and Sriram Kaushik
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| David Lumb / CNET: |
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones — The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people's phones... and potentially smaller accessories, too.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The FTC announces a crackdown on “deceptive AI claims and schemes” by companies including legal services firm DoNotPay, which claimed to offer a “robot lawyer” — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a crackdown on what the regulator called …
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| The Hacker News: |
Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024 — Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and WP Engine customers having trouble with their sites should contact WP Engine support — WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: lighter and comfortable with improved ANC and transparency, but underwhelming Gemini Live and no high-quality Bluetooth codecs — With a slew of improvements led by a far more comfortable design, Google's latest earbuds are a compelling upgrade for Pixel owners.
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| Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal business accounts, except in New York state at launch — PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) announced on Wednesday it is enabling U.S. merchants to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency from their business accounts.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney officially launches its password-sharing crackdown, letting users add an “Extra Member” for $6.99/month for Disney+ Basic, or $9.99 for Disney+ Premium — The company rolled out what it is calling its paid sharing policy this week, letting users add a member outside their household …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Over 100 companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, signed the EU's AI Pact for “voluntary pledges” before the AI Act; Apple and Meta did not — The European Commission has revealed a list of the first 100-plus signatories to the AI Pact … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Micron reports Q4 revenue up 93% YoY to $7.75B, vs. $7.66B est., forecasts Q1 revenue and profit above estimates, helped by AI demand; MU jumps 13%+ after hours — Xsolla's CEO Spends Like a Billionaire on Back of Company Cash … Hello World … Quicktake| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: a demo of Sora initially took 10+ minutes to make a 1-minute clip; source: OpenAI execs spoke of training an improved Sora that could quickly make clips — Between OpenAI's long-awaited Strawberry launch and its monster ongoing fundraising, it might be easy to forget about Sora …
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