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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: |
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.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies — - Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022 — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation
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| 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.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
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| 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 …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out enhanced scam detection to Google Messages beta users and previews other safety features, like an option to blur images that may contain nudity — The latest round of new features for Google Messages is focused on safety, like “Sensitive Content Warnings” for images that contain nudity.
More: Google Online Security Blog, The Verge, CNET, NewsBytes, Digital Trends, Android Police, Engadget, Android Authority, and Droid Life. Forums: r/GoogleMessages
| 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 …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is working on a new App Store-like app dedicated to games that will integrate with the user's Game Center profile — It's been a month since Apple released iOS 18 to the public, but the company is already working on future software updates. Interestingly, as Apple … | 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 …
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps — “I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
In its first annual report, Walmart's PhonePe says FY 2024 revenue grew 74% YoY to ~$602M, net losses dropped 28% YoY to ~$237M, and 200M MAUs as of March 2024 — - PhonePe released its first detailed annual report on Monday — The fintech saw its loss shrink 28% to about 20 billion rupees| 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE and VentureBeat
| 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
More: Statement on AI training, The Independent, TechCrunch, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Billboard, Digital Trends, NBC News, Digital Music News, The Wrap, and Engadget
LinkedIn: Martin S. and Evan Winston
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
NYC-based Tennr, which uses AI-based document parsing and workflow automation to reduce waiting times for patients, raised a $37M Series B led by Lightspeed — The document intelligence-focused healthcare startup Tennr Inc. today announced it has closed on a $37 million funding round.
More: Forbes, Unite.AI, and Lightspeed Venture Partners
| Nikkei Asia: |
Huawei launches HarmonyOS 5.0 and says 1B+ devices run on HarmonyOS including smartphones, PCs, and cars, and the OS has 15K+ apps, up 10x from earlier in 2024 — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies' Harmony operating system is making inroads overseas, helped by partnerships with players …
More: South China Morning Post, The Register, Global Times, Xinhua, CGTN, Huawei Central, Gizmochina, and Huawei Central
X: @henanamazing, @cn_mfg, @beijingdai, @dominictsz, @kanthan2030, and @thegalox_
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Texas Instruments says it is nearing recovery after sales fell for the eighth straight quarter in Q3 to $4.15B, down 8.4% YoY, and projects Q4 sales below est. — - Company has suffered eight straight quarters of sales declines — CEO says end of glut should be close, despite tepid forecast| The Information: |
Sources: Shein's revenue growth slowed to 23% YoY to $18B in H1 2024 and its profit declined 70%+ YoY to just under $400M, as competition with Temu intensifies — Shein's march toward an initial public offering has gotten tangled in a web of regulatory scrutiny on three continents this year.
More: Reuters
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Stream.Security, which offers real-time cloud threat and exposure management solutions for enterprises, raised a $30M Series B led by U.S. Venture Partners — Cloud security solutions startup Stream.Security today announced it had raised $30 million in new funding to allow it to accelerate …
More: FinSMEs, Stream Security, VC News Daily, The Fast Mode, and SecurityWeek
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: TechInsights took apart at least one of Huawei's latest AI chips and found an Ascend 910B made by TSMC, which says it stopped Huawei shipments in 2020 — - Ascend 910B is made with TSMC's 7-nm process, per TechInsights — The chip was first spotted in servers in China in 2022| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
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