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Apple launches some Apple Intelligence features like writing tools, image cleanup, and typing in Siri, with the release of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 — Apple on Monday confirmed the general availability of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.
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Apple refreshes the 24" iMac with an M4 chip, Thunderbolt 4, 16GB+ of RAM, a nano-texture screen option, and a 12MP webcam, shipping from November 8 for $1,299+ — 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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| 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 …
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Meta disagrees with OSI's definition of open-source AI; Llama doesn't fit the definition due to restrictions on commercial use and lack of training data access — The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its official definition of “open” artificial intelligence, setting the stage … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says its AI Overview summaries will begin rolling out in over 100 countries and territories this week, meaning the feature will reach 1B+ monthly users — Google's AI Overviews are expanding across more than 100 countries this week. The AI-generated search summaries will appear for users in Canada … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says Google runs “shadow campaigns” to discredit it with regulators in Europe, including organizing an “astroturf group” with European cloud providers — Microsoft took the unusual step Monday of publicly accusing longtime rival Google of running …
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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: |
OpenAI's CFO: ChatGPT has 250M weekly active users, converts free users to paid at a 5% to 6% rate, and ~75% of OpenAI's revenue is from consumer subscriptions — - 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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| Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Source: Meta is working on a web search engine to provide conversational answers about current events for Meta AI users, hoping to lessen 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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| Reuters: |
Sierra, an AI startup co-founded by OpenAI board chairman and ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, raised $175M, valuing it at $4.5B, up from ~$1B in February 2024 — Sierra, a software startup co-founded by former Salesforce (CRM.N) co-CEO Bret Taylor, has raised $175 million in a new funding round led …
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
How GOP figures from Stephen Miller to Elon Musk use lawsuits to silence groups studying disinformation, like the DFRLab, CCDH, GDI, Graphika, NewsGuard, others — Targeting groups studying disinformation is bad news for democracy. … Not long after Hurricane Helene wrought destruction across … | John Melloy / CNBC: |
Robinhood says US citizens who meet certain criteria can trade a Kamala Harris or a 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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| 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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