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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
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| 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 …
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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 …
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| 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.| Will Knight / Wired: |
Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for 100+ product types on its US mobile website and in its US app — Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus — - Headset group will be overseen by hardware leader John Ternus — The retiring executive had worked at Apple for over 26 years
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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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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.
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference — ChatGPT maker considers largely untested company model to protect chief executive Sam Altman from outside interference| Associated Press: |
The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test — That long-held Wimbledon tradition of line judges dressed in elegant uniforms is no more.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance” — MediaTek has formally announced its new flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9400.
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Forums: r/hardware, r/hardware, r/Android, and r/Android
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that allows users to create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar from a video clip they record of themselves — Zoom wants to turn you into an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar — but not until sometime next year. — The upcoming feature …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not ads in replies — X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform. Since last year, X has shared ad revenue with creators based … | 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.
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| 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 …
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