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October 9, 2024, 4:35 PM

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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case  —  - Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data  — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case
Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness  —  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today shared a broad outline of radical changes it may demand as part …
Financial Times:
Bloomberg:
The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”  —  - Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award  — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
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Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon aims to deploy Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval, an AI tool to help drivers quickly find the right package in delivery vans, in 1,000 vans by early 2025  —  - Technology will shorten typical delivery route by 30 minutes  —  Amazon.com Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool designed …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon Pharmacy plans to expand same-day prescription delivery to 20 more US cities in 2025, including Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Diego  —  Amazon plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to 20 more cities next year, the company said Wednesday, marking the latest phase of its push into health care.
Reuters:
Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that some users had committed crimes of “child sexual abuse and obscenity”  —  Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord following a court decision, the country's infotech regulator said on Wednesday.
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, including the UK, and plans 15 more in the coming weeks, and adds it to Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK  —  15 more countries will get access over the coming weeks.  —  Meta AI is beginning a big international rollout.
Reuters:
FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it will require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2's final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update  —  Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21.
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Hayden Field / CNBC:
Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an LLM for enterprise applications, saying it cost just $700K to train, using synthetic data; source: Writer is raising up to $200M  —  San Francisco-based AI startup Writer debuted a large artificial intelligence model on Wednesday to compete with enterprise offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Ring unveils Ring Home Premium for $20 per month, with 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US, and changes its other plans  —  Amazon is revamping its subscription offerings for its Ring video doorbells and cameras.  —  A new service, called Ring Home Premium …
Joel Khalili / Wired:
HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies  —  A new HBO documentary takes a swing at uncovering the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin.
Laura Dobberstein / The Register:
OpenAI says Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's Chief Revenue Officer, to lead its international expansion  —  Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside  —  Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed …

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