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October 25, 2024, 11:30 AM

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The Verge:
Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship model, codenamed Orion, by December, rolling it out in phases starting with the company's trusted partners  —  OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned.  —  Unlike the release of OpenAI's last two models …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says “fake news out of control”  —  The Verge last night published an exclusive and seemingly well researched and sourced report (it's great in my opinion …
More: WinBuzzer.  X: @sama
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping  —  Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Meta strikes a multi-year deal with Reuters to use its news content to provide real-time answers to user queries in Meta AI chatbot, a first for Meta  —  - Meta has backed away from news content in its platforms' main feeds amid regulatory scrutiny, but news content may prove harder …
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B  —  Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion funding round to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix, where it operates today.
Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times:
Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of Duty game to debut on Xbox Game Pass, in the biggest test of its gaming strategy since acquiring Activision  —  Tech giant hopes ‘Black Ops 6’ will boost Game Pass subscription service as Xbox sales decline  —  Microsoft is seeking to boost …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach  —  UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen …
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the fight over valuable social media accounts when couples divorce; data: 44% of 27M paid US content creators say social media is their full-time job  —  When couples who make their living online split up, assessing the accounts' future value and divvying them up fairly is a drag
More: TechCrunch and Complex
Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on AI slop, the company's partnerships with Google and OpenAI, content moderation during an election year, and more  —  What makes Reddit a gold mine for AI models, he says, is all of the human-led content on its variety of forums

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