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October 27, 2024, 8:40 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A closer look at M4 Macs coming this week; sources: Apple's home smart display will have an iMac G4-like base and a square screen the size of about two iPhones  —  Also: fresh details on the company's upcoming smart home device.  —  Apple kicks off a Mac overhaul this week that centers on new M4 chips.
Erin Woo / The Information:
Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed Jarvis, which takes over a user's web browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, in December  —  Google is developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person's web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research …
Associated Press:
Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary  —  Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Musk said there's a “chance” HW3 systems, now in millions of Teslas, do “not achieve the safety level” for unsupervised FSD and mentioned free upgrades from HW3  —  Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn't actually know what it will take.
Reuters:
Sources: TSMC halted shipments to Chinese chip designer Sophgo, which was co-founded by Bitmain's Micree Zhan, after TSMC chips were found on Huawei AI chips  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (2330.TW) suspended shipments to China-based chip designer Sophgo after a chip …
Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses of brain-computer interfaces, human trials, brain implants becoming consumer devices, and more  —  People with severe spinal injuries will one day be able to return to work, according to executives at Precision Neuroscience

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