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AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for a US IPO, with plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS, and reports a $66.6M net loss 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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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand its software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle — The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and Sonos
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM-1B, LFM-3B, and LFM-40B MoE, claiming 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) … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Apple asks a US judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order that Epic had won — Apple (AAPL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out or narrow a decision governing its lucrative App Store, saying …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
An interview with WhatsApp Product Director Alice Newton-Rex on end-to-end encryption, spotting misinformation, the UK's Online Safety Act, Telegram, and more — The messaging platform's director of product discusses privacy issues, AI and new features for the app's 2bn users| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Some criticize YC-backed PearAI for forking AI code editor Continue, which has the Apache open-source license, and slapping on a ChatGPT-written closed license — A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Sony fixes a massive outage of its online gaming network PSN, affecting the PS3, PS4, PS5, PS Vita, web, and more, lasting for eight hours; some issues persist — PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 console users are now able to play online games again following a massive outage on Sony's gaming network that started on Monday night.
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
FCC connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of September 30, 370 of North Carolina's 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power — In some counties, fewer than 10% of all cellphone service sites are fully functioning. — Some of the victims of Hurricane Helene are cut off from the outside world.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
In the past year, one researcher reported vulnerabilities in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of courts, state agencies, and police departments in the US — With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too. — Public records systems that courts … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
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.
More: VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, Tomasz Tunguz, and Christopher S. Penn
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| Andrew Solomon / New Yorker: |
A look at the debates over whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans — Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
Bluesky: @madelinevo.bsky.social and @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
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| Phuong Nguyen / Reuters: |
Nick Clegg says Meta plans to build the Quest 3S in Vietnam in 2025; Meta did not specify the size of the investment and of its existing operation in Vietnam — Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday it will expand investment in artificial intelligence innovation in Vietnam …
More: Benzinga, CoinGape, Neowin, Tech in Asia, and VnExpress English
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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 …
More: Engadget, Ars Technica, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, and MediaPost
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation — A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new business within AWS is setting out to reinvent the tricky business … | Bloomberg: |
Oura says it expects annual sales to double to roughly $500M in 2024; sources say it plans a new, thinner fitness ring with better battery life in October 2024 — - CEO expects ‘healthy’ growth, but has no imminent IPO plans — New model will have improved battery life and thinner design| New York Times: |
How streamers on Twitch and other services are moving further into talking politics, making the livestreaming platforms a focus for both presidential campaigns — As more streamers discuss politics, including major events like Tuesday's debate, they have become the focus of intense interest for both presidential campaigns.| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of an FTC lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren't immediately clear — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) won partial dismissal of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit accusing it of maintaining illegal monopolies … | 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 — Udemy, an e-learning platform with more than 250,000 online classes, recently announced that it would train generative AI …
More: How-To Geek, Udemy, and The Verge
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