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October 20, 2024, 2:00 AM
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Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on how internet traffic surge during COVID helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, internet balkanization, more  —  I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt.
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Bloomberg:
Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools  —  About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content.  At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.
Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News:
Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics, replaces Quest 3's depth sensor with two IR flood illuminators, and more  —  The Quest 3S is a curious device.  I think we were all expecting a budget version of the Quest 3, but that's not quite what this headset is.
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:
Kazakhstan-based Kaspi.kz agrees to acquire a majority share, or 65.4%, of Turkish e-commerce platform Hepsiburada for ~$1.13B, expected to close in Q1 2025  —  The share acquisition is poised to benefit entrepreneurs and SMEs in Kazakhstan and Turkey.  —  Kazakhstan fintech Kaspi.kz …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository  —  Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in Northern California, asking it to intervene and restore …
K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg:
DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it a Chinese military company, says the DOD didn't engage on the issue for over 16 months  —  - US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm  — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
Wall Street Journal:
How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions  —  Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis.  Now locals and tourists can't get enough.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Report: Letterboxd's owners have held early talks with potential buyers, including Netflix, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and PE giant TPG

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The Trump administration issued subpoenas to several NYT reporters after the outlet reported on security concerns involving the new Qatari-donated Air Force One

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
NYT countersues the US EEOC, accusing it of retaliation for NYT's coverage of the agency by suing NYT for passing over a white man for a top editorial role

More News

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future
Simon Willison's Weblog:
Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only

Earlier Picks

Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller:
Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Terray Therapeutics, which uses AI to accelerate small-molecule drug development, raised a $120M Series B led by Bedford Ridge Capital and Nvidia's NVentures
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract
The Verge:
A judge grants Google a temporary stay on the Epic ruling while Google appeals, which means Google might not have to change Play Store practices for years
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