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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta  —  In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research …
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Anthropic claims that its new Sonnet 3.5 model scores 49% on SWE-bench Verified, up from 33.4% and “higher than all” public models, and debuts Claude 3.5 Haiku  —  Today, we're announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
OpenAI and Microsoft announce a $10M AI local news project operated by the Lenfest Institute, starting with five US metro news organizations  —  - “The scale, we think, is significant,” he added. … - The new program is being driven in partnership with The Lenfest Institute's Local …
David Pierce / The Verge:
iPad mini (2024) review: fast A17 Pro chip, delightful size, and Pencil Pro support, but less powerful than other iPads, outdated Touch ID and camera placement  —  Apple's smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won't feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Qualcomm partners with Google to help automakers develop AI voice assistants and unveils two new chips to power dashboards and self-driving features  —  Qualcomm (QCOM.O) on Tuesday said it was teaming up with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google to offer a combination of chips and software …
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up  —  The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch  —  One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Penguin Random House, UMG, and SAG-AFTRA join 11.5K+ signatories of an open letter saying the “unlicensed use of creative works” to train AI must not be allowed  —  Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals' work to train AI models
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs  —  Chipmaker reported having received order for processor resembling that of Chinese company Huawei
Runway:
Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated characters with realistic facial expressions using video and voice recordings as inputs  —  Act-One can create compelling animations using video and voice performances as inputs.  It represents a significant step forward …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation  —  Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI hires Scott Schools, most recently the chief ethics and compliance officer at Uber, as its chief compliance officer
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm”  —  Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system  —  WhatsApp announced today a new feature that will allow users to save contacts within the app.

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From Mediagazer

Denise Petski / Deadline:
Amazon Prime Video sets November 20 for the premiere of “Melania, The Series”, the two-episode follow-up to Brett Ratner's “Melania” documentary

Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

Financial Times:
Bomb threats force the evacuation of Irish newsrooms, including national broadcaster RTÉ, which briefly went off air and resumed broadcasts from a mobile unit

More News

David Prosser / Forbes:
Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source code vulnerabilities, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract Ventures, taking its total funding to $65M
Sara Fischer / Axios:
TollBit, which recently launched a content monetization marketplace for publishers and AI companies, raised a $24M Series A led by Lightspeed Ventures
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Source: Polymarket is rechecking user info, especially of big spenders, to make sure users are not US based; user Fredi9999 has bet $18M+ on GOP outcomes so far
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29

Earlier Picks

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at some use cases of Anthropic's Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts
Robert Triggs / Android Authority:
Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile SoC, with two prime and six performance CPU cores, claiming 45% faster CPU and NPU over the 8 Gen 3, and more
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Stripe announces a finalized deal to buy stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal is worth $1.1B; Bridge has raised $54M
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