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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile — If you can't capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you're seeing.
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LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner and Robby Stein
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews for when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US — Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you'll now start seeing products in some of the search engine's AI-generated summaries.
More: Google, Semafor, Mediaweek, Search Engine Journal, The Information, The Drum, XDA Developers, Search Engine Land, and Thurrott
LinkedIn: Shashidhar, Dan Taylor, and Vidhya Srinivasan
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI gets a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and others, on top of the $6.6B in funding, bringing its liquidity to $10B+ — OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned.
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Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI's CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now — Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Matt Kroll
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/mlscaling, and r/singularity
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users — OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”
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Forums: r/ChatGPTPro and Slashdot
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 — - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK
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LinkedIn: Ben Johnson, Jeremy Dallman, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube updates Shorts with the ability for creators to upload up to three-minute videos, a streamlined Shorts player, templates, and a new trends mobile page — YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.
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LinkedIn: Vadim Lavrusik and Gwen Miller
| Google Developers Blog: |
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster 1.5 Flash variant with a 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts — Today, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, our latest Flash variant, is production-ready and comes with: — Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8b … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M — AI tends to make things up. That's unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Offline Backup, which automatically makes recently streamed and now playing queued songs available as an offline playlist for Premium users — Spotify introduced a new feature today called Offline Backup. This feature for premium users is essentially a list of songs …
More: Spotify, MobileSyrup, The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, Android Authority, PCMag, Android Headlines, Gizmodo, CNET, Android Central, How-To Geek, Digital Music News, MakeUseOf, Tech Advisor, MSPoweruser, PhoneArena, TechRadar, and T3. LinkedIn: Mikael Bolle
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English — Google initially rolled out Gemini Live, its conversational AI voice chat, in just one language: English.
More: The Keyword, Google Help Center, The Week, Droid Life, SamMobile, Wccftech, Neowin, Engadget, Phandroid, PhoneArena, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, and 9to5Google. LinkedIn: Jules Walter
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Binance's trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 — - Overall market share fell to 36.6% last month, CCData says — Binance saw the most severe share drop among top exchanges
More: NewsBTC, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking — Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
More: MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Macworld, The Verge, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, The Apple Post, and iClarified
X: @markgurman, @aaronp613, @brandonbutch, @stephenrobles, @iryantldr, and @tgod34748. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, featuring a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app — Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover. The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4 … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model, Flux1.1 Pro, for 2K images — Black Forest Labs, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup behind the image generation model in xAI's Grok assistant, has launched an API in beta — and released a new model.
More: Black Forest Labs, The Decoder, Maginative, TestingCatalog, and VentureBeat. Forums: Hacker News
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months — ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round … | Pooja Salhotra / The Texas Tribune: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors' personal info without parental consent; TikTok denies it — The attorney general argues that the popular short form video app has not complied with a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active online.Sponsor Posts
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