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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple refreshes the 24" iMac with M4, Thunderbolt 4, 16GB+ of RAM, a nano-texture screen option, and a 12MP webcam, starting at $1,299 and shipping November 8 — Apple today announced that it has updated the 24-inch iMac with the M4 chip, which debuted in the iPad Pro earlier this year.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says that Apple Intelligence will begin rolling out to EU countries in spring 2025 — Apple plans to roll out Apple Intelligence features to iPhone and iPad users in the European Union starting in April 2025, according to information included in today's M4 iMac announcement in European countries.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches some Apple Intelligence features like writing tools and notification summaries, as part of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1, released today — Apple on Monday confirmed the general availability of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
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| Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Source: Meta is working on a search engine that provides conversational answers about current events for Meta AI users, to reduce its reliance on Google — As Meta Platforms tries to keep up with OpenAI in developing artificial intelligence, the Facebook owner is working on a search engine …
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| John Melloy / CNBC: |
Robinhood says US users that meet a certain criteria can trade a Kamala Harris or Donald Trump contract via its Robinhood Derivatives unit and ForecastEx — WATCH NOW — Upstart broker Robinhood is jumping into the prediction betting game, announcing on Monday that users can begin trading …
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Netflix adds a Moments feature on iOS, letting users save, rewatch, and share scenes across Instagram, Snapchat, and others, and plans an Android launch soon — Netflix just added a way for you to watch that carriage scene from “Bridgerton” over and over and over again — and share it with your friends — without breaking a sweat.
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| Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong outlines an AI policy for finance and proposes an extension of a tax break on owning digital assets, as it seeks to become Asia's go-to financial hub — - Tax break law to be tabled by year-end: treasury secretary Hui — City was denied access by major AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini
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| Financial Times: |
A UK judge sentences a 27-year-old man who used AI tool Daz 3D to create child sexual abuse imagery to 18 years in prison, a landmark prosecution over deepfakes — A man who used artificial intelligence technology to create child sexual abuse imagery was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Open Source Initiative releases version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, after years of collaboration with academia and the industry — There's finally an “official” definition of open source AI. — The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and … | Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's CFO: ChatGPT has 250M weekly active users, converts free users to paid at a rate of 5% to 6%, and ~75% of OpenAI's revenue is from paying consumers — - AI startup converting 5% to 6% of free users to paid products — There are more than 1 million paid users for corporate ChatGPT
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Elon Musk says there's a “chance” that HW3, in millions of Teslas, “does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD” and floats free upgrades — Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn't actually know what it will take.
More: TESLARATI. Threads: @e.w.niedermeyer, @vantazach, @kolchak, @tayray94, and @vocino
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars, r/wallstreetbets, r/electricvehicles, and r/RealTesla
| Bloomberg: |
Trade data analysis: Mumbai-based Shreya Life Sciences exported 1,111 Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with AI chips, worth $300M+, to Russia from April to August — Trade-tracking data show that the Indian firm is selling top-end Dell servers optimized for artificial intelligence to Russia.
More: Euromaidan Press, Watcher Guru, Cryptopolitan, TrendForce News, and pravda.com.ua
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