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Epic files a CA lawsuit accusing Samsung and Google of colluding to deter users from rival app stores via Samsung's Auto Blocker, and plans to speak to the EU — “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Samsung (005930.KS) …
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AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for an IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a net loss of $66.6M on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024 — Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering …
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Reddit moderators must now submit a request to Reddit staff before changing a subreddit's public/private status, making sitewide mod-led protests much harder — Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able …
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Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's latest funding round, SoftBank's first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B — SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI's latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT …
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Thoughts on OpenAI's recent fundraise reports and how Apple reportedly backing out, while still using ChatGPT for Apple Intelligence, may lead to awkward deals — Thinking through their numbers and those deal terms... While they published this on Friday - before the subsequent WSJ report …
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Notes on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective — Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google's NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now.
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Oura says it will see annual sales double to roughly $500M this year; sources: it plans to debut a new, thinner fitness ring with better battery life in October — - CEO expects ‘healthy’ growth, but has no imminent IPO plans — New model will have improved battery life and thinner design| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI — Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM 1B, 3B, and 40B MoE, and claims they achieve “state-of-the-art performance at every scale” — Liquid AI, a startup co-founded by former researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) …
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Verizon says its network is functional again, following a massive outage that affected Verizon customers for hours on September 30 in the US — Update 5:38 p.m. ET: Verizon is slowly fixing the ongoing outage. In a new statement, the company says: “Verizon engineers are making progress …
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The FCC announces a $31.5M settlement with T-Mobile over four data breaches, in 2021, 2022, and 2023, that compromised personal info of millions of US customers — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a $31.5 million settlement with T-Mobile over multiple data breaches …
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A US judge dismisses a DOJ lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of harmful products, citing Section 230 protections — A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing eBay (EBAY.O) of violating environmental laws by allowing …
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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pledges to keep investing in blockchain, AI, and biotech, in his first comments since his release from US custody on September 27 — - Zhao was released Friday after serving a four-month sentence — Binance founder in X post lays out plans including investment| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
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