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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.
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @yifanlu@mastodon.social
X: @lilyraynyc, @newsfromgoogle, and @glenngabe
LinkedIn: Shashidhar, Dan Taylor, and Vidhya Srinivasan
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: South China Morning Post, Hindustan Times, Business Standard, TipRanks Financial, SE Ranking Blog, Android Police, Associated Press, Adweek, Mashable, 9to5Google, and Search Engine Journal
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| 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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LinkedIn: Minisha Goel and Daniel Levine
Forums: r/ChatGPTPro and Slashdot
| 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 … | 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: Jeremy Dallman, Ben Johnson, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took a “generous” severance package offered to those who disagreed with WordPress' direction — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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X: @gergelyorosz, @wpengine, @kellie, @hashim_warren, @ericlbarnes, @chriswallace, @billy_boozer, @miprofithunter, @sc_codeum, @hashim_warren, @ryancduff, @ryancduff, @cowkitty, @ctrlaltdwayne, @jeffr0, @ryancduff, @zimm3rmann, @dwlz, @blackqueeriroh, @bgardner, and @automattic. Forums: r/technology
| 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 …
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X: @markgurman, @aaronp613, @brandonbutch, @stephenrobles, @iryantldr, and @tgod34748
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
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Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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LinkedIn: Lewis Z. Liu and Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/mlscaling
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The CJEU sides with Max Schrems over his privacy dispute with Meta after an Austrian court asked CJEU if Facebook undermines GDPR with its use of data for ads — Europe's top court on Friday sided with Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems in his privacy dispute with Meta Platforms (META.O).| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results — On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) … | 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
| 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
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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