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Sources: Meta's plans to build a US nuclear-powered AI data center were thwarted in part after a rare bee species was found on land earmarked for the project — Mark Zuckerberg is continuing to explore energy deals amid a Big Tech arms race over artificial intelligence
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Forums: r/environment, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market — - Company's hardware division is researching idea with employees — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
The second developer beta of iOS 18.2 shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings — With the second beta of iOS 18.2 that's available for developers today, Apple has further fleshed …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US — On Monday, Amazon announced X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, touting the generative-AI-based feature as … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG's office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG — - Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations — Firm in early talks with California attorney general's office
More: Capital Brief and Reuters
| Katie Robertson / New York Times: |
The Times Tech Guild, representing 600+ NYT devs, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise — The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times's digital operation.
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A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election — A Pennsylvania judge declined to issue an emergency injunction Monday, allowing Elon Musk's super PAC to continue its cash giveaway to registered voters.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X starts rolling out an update to let users see public posts, and following and followers lists, of users who block them; blocked users still can't engage or DM — X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, allowing people to view your public posts even if you have blocked them.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware — Meta's former head of augmented reality glasses announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn.
More: The Verge. X: @scobleizer, @hadip, @inafried, @kalinowski007, and @kalinowski007. LinkedIn: Caitlin (CK) …
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku, but it is priced at $1 per million input tokens, up 4x from Claude 3.0 Haiku's price, and lacks image analysis features — Anthropic's newest AI model has arrived. But it's pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic's other models, it can't analyze images (yet).
More: The Decoder and Simon Willison's Weblog
| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance's international revenue grew 60%+ YoY to about $17B in H1 2024, and overall revenue grew 35% to about $73B, after growing 40% in H1 2023 — TikTok parent ByteDance increased its international revenue more than 60% to about $17 billion in the first half of 2024 … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin using Llama AI — In an effort to combat the perception that its “open” AI is aiding foreign adversaries, Meta today said that it's making …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with GM SVP Baris Cetinok on having a “high conviction” that ditching CarPlay and Android Auto is the right call, building autonomous cars, and more — GM's Baris Cetinok is committed to building a custom experience to rival that of Apple and Google.
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Forums: r/technology and r/cars
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta is extending its ban on new political ads past Election Day in the US, “until later this week” — Meta extended its ban on new political ads on Facebook and Instagram past Election Day in the U.S. — The social media giant announced the political ads policy update on Monday …
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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 screen is easy to build, works with the latest OS, and holds the Pi on its back, but scrolling can be awkward — It has been nine years since the previous Touch Display was released. … The official Raspberry Pi Touch Display debuted …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
T-Mobile to use OpenAI tech for a customer service bot slated for next year that can refer to customer-specific data, and will pay OpenAI $100M over three years — T-Mobile agreed to pay OpenAI roughly $100 million over the next three years as part of a deal to use the startup's technology, The Information reported on Monday.
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix plans to delist nearly all of its interactive shows and films as of December 1 saying the tech “served its purpose”, after launching the format in 2017 — Netflix's “Interactive Specials” page lists 24 titles, but only four will remain: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch …
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