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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google — The new option will let the chatbot's users search for timely information much as they would on the web.
More: OpenAI, Ars Technica, Financial Times, The Verge, CNET, Silicon Valley Business …, CNBC, Gizmodo, Android Authority, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Inc, MIT Technology Review, 9to5Google, Associated Press, New York Times, VentureBeat, Adweek, MobileSyrup, Windows Latest, Neowin, Fast Company, Wired, Axios, AIM, and Mashable
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LinkedIn: Eric Herbel, Daniel Longoria, and Conor Dragomanovich
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, and Ars OpenForum
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
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| Apple Inc.: |
Apple reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $94.9B, net income of $14.74B, vs. $22.96B in Q4 2023, after paying a $10.2B charge as part of a tax decision in Europe — iPhone drives record September quarter revenue Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results … | CNBC: |
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| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to $158.9B, a $15.3B net income vs. $9.9B in Q3 2023, a $17.4B operating income vs. $11.2B in Q3 2023; AMZN jumps 5%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2024.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue down 6% YoY to $13.28B, vs. $13.02B est., a net loss of $16.99B, and Q4 guidance above estimates; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours — Intel shares rose 9% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected revenue and issued quarterly guidance that topped estimates.
More: New York Times, The Information, Fierce Electronics, PCWorld, CTech, Intel, Reuters, Shacknews, TipRanks Financial, and Watcher Guru
| Financial Times: |
China sanctions Skydio, the US' largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military; sources say Skydio is rushing to find new suppliers for critical parts — Skydio, the US's largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military, faces a supply chain crisis after Beijing imposed sanctions …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude apps for Mac and Windows in public beta, and releases a dictation tool for Claude on iOS, Android, and iPadOS — Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps. — Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows today in public beta, which …
More: The Verge, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, Maginative, and WinBuzzer
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google adds Gemini in Google Maps in the US, with AI-summarized reviews and answers to conversational questions by users, and adds 150 cities to Immersive View — Google Maps is getting a big update that's supposed to help you find new places to visit with AI.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft delays the rollout of its controversial Recall feature to December to “refine the experience”, after previously pushing it from June to October — Microsoft says it needs more time to make sure the AI feature is ‘a secure and trusted experience’
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips made by TSMC's N7 process and with Wi-Fi 7 in the iPhone 17 lineup, reducing its reliance on Broadcom — Apple's big launches for 2024 are nearly complete, so reports are going to pick up regarding the 2025 product lineup.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows users will only be able to buy one year of Extended Security Updates for Windows 10 for $30, after support ends in October 2025 — Microsoft is finally revealing that it will charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10.
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Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Waymo was valued at more than $45B, after it raised $5.6B last week, led by Alphabet — - Company is rapidly expanding number of ride-hailing trips … The business said late last week that it had raised $5.6 billion in new capital at an undisclosed value.| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
A look at X's Election Integrity Community, a feed to “share potential incidents of voter fraud” that has 50K+ members, launched by Elon Musk's America PAC — Elon Musk didn't just get a social network—he got a political weapon. — It's easy to forget that Elon Musk's purchase …
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players — The Call of Duty series has sold more than 500 million copies to date, according to publisher Activision-Blizzard. “Black Ops 6” set launch-day records.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Sophos details a five-year battle with Chinese hackers exploiting its firewalls, and how its device “implants” traced the hacks to a university and a contractor — Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so …
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LinkedIn: Graham Helton, Jacob Williams, and Andy Greenberg
| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
OnePlus unveils the OnePlus 13, its next flagship with a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, 12GB+ RAM, and a 6,000mAh battery, available in China on November 1 for ~$630+ — OnePlus has officially announced its next flagship smartphone, the new OnePlus 13. Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor …
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X: @ishanagarwal24, @sondesix, @sondesix, and @mishaalrahman
| Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $11.2B, above est., gross bookings up 16% YoY to $41B, a $1.1B operating income, above est. and up from $394M in Q3 2023 — Forecast for customer spending on ride-hailing app fell slightly short of Wall Street's estimates
More: Uber, PYMNTS.com, The Times, CNBC, Proactive, Bloomberg, Watcher Guru, Reuters, and The Information. LinkedIn: John Nelson
| Wired: |
Zuckerberg says Meta is training Llama 4 models on a cluster of 100K+ H100 chips, “or bigger than anything that I've seen reported for what others are doing” — The race for better generative AI is also a race for more computing power. On that score, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta appears to be winning.
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| ProPublica: |
An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms that collectively controlled 340+ Pages and placed 160K+ ads to collect users' information — Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism — Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks …
More: Gizmodo, HuffPost, and NPR
Mastodon: @dmarti@federate.social. Bluesky: @bobstarr.bsky.social. X: @propublica, @craigsilverman, @charlesornstein, @propublica, and @ebakerwhite
Forums: r/musked, r/news, r/politics, r/neutralnews, r/NPR, and r/politics
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai — The European Union has tossed a spanner in the works of chipmaker Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv-based AI workload management startup Run:ai.
More: Reuters, CoinGape, Global Competition Review, Watcher Guru, CTech, and European Commission
| Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Internal memo: Block CEO Jack Dorsey says Tidal is in for another mass layoff; insiders say as many as 100 people could be laid off, or ~25% of Tidal's staff — Block CEO and founder Jack Dorsey wants streaming music app Tidal to operate like a startup again - and that means layoffs| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Peloton names Ford executive Peter Stern as CEO, set to start on January 1, to lead a turnaround, and projects Q2 subscriber numbers below analyst estimates — - Peloton also delivers results that show better profitability — Peloton Interactive Inc. shares soared after the fitness company … | Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
US court docs: in 2022, Apple warned TikTok that the app had more mature content than was suitable for under-17s and urged it to change its App Store age rating — The communications between the tech giants were inadvertently made public in a complaint filed by South Carolina.| Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft reports Q2 net bookings down 36% YoY to €352.3M, vs. €368M est., and expects Q3 net bookings of €380M, down from €626M in Q3 2023, as its big games flop — - Expects net bookings over lucrative holiday season to be down — Success of Assassin's Creed Shadows in February is criticalSponsor Posts
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