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Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for ~$30B; Alphabet was close to a $23B deal for Wiz last summer before talks ended — A deal worth some $30 billion could come together soon, after talks fizzled last summer — Google parent Alphabet … | New York Times: |
HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel — A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.
More: TechCrunch, PitchBook, Business Insider, Rippling, The San Francisco Standard, Boing Boing, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg, Axios, Cautious Optimism, San Francisco Business Times, The Information, and United States District Court, Northern District of California
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Snap updates Spectacles AR glasses to add GPS support for Lenses, improved hand tracking, an AR keyboard, and more — The augmented reality smart glasses can now point you in the right direction. … Lenses — what Snap calls the Spectacles' various AR effects …
More: Snap Newsroom, MacRumors, TechRadar, Niantic Labs, AR Insider, and UploadVR
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan has considered restructuring Intel's AI approach and cutting staff to address a slow and bloated middle management layer — Intel's incoming CEO Lip-Bu Tan has considered significant changes to its chip manufacturing methods and artificial intelligence strategies ahead …
More: TechCrunch, Portland Business Journal, Fast Company, Benzinga, New York Post, Barron's Online, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, Capital Brief, Quartz, and DNyuz
Forums: r/hardware and r/intelstock
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users report that Gemini 2.0 Flash is very good at removing watermarks from images; many models allow this but some, like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o, do not — Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google's new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images …
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Forums: r/singularity, r/Piracy, r/Bard, r/RunningCirclejerk, r/technews, r/technology, beehaw.org, and Slashdot
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Open letter: ~100 EU companies urge EU lawmakers to take “radical action” to shrink the reliance on foreign infrastructure by fostering a so-called “Euro stack” — A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe's tech industry is calling for “radical action” …
More: The Register, TechRadar, Politico, WinBuzzer, Cautious Optimism, How-To Geek, Tech.eu, Digital Trends, The Stack, Werd I/O, and Reuters
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @metacurity.com, and @mathver
Mastodon: @alexlunaview@mastodon.social and @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: r/BuyFromEU, r/eutech, r/europe, and Slashdot
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodal and multilingual open-source model it says outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini and runs on 32GB RAM — French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings …
More: Mistral AI, Hugging Face, Simon Willison's Weblog, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @nvondarza. X: @googlecloudtech, @olafgeibig, @simonw, @itspaulai, @sophiamyang, and @kimmonismus
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to partner with Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek to design and produce its next-gen TPUs, set for 2026, but will still work with Broadcom — Google plans to work with a new firm to help design and produce some of its artificial intelligence chips: MediaTek.
More: Reuters, Android Central, Benzinga, Wall Street Pit, Livemint, and Android Headlines
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Walmart's OnePay says Klarna will replace Affirm to offer buy-now-pay-later to US shoppers later in 2025, and OnePay can buy a Klarna stake; AFRM drops 10%+ — Swedish fintech firm Klarna will be the exclusive provider of buy now, pay later loans for Walmart, taking a coveted partnership away from rival Affirm, CNBC has learned.
More: Klarna, Bank Automation News, TechCrunch, RetailWire, Fast Company, The Information, Entrepreneur, Payments Dive, Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, Proactive, The Paypers, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Retail TouchPoints, Barron's Online, ZeroHedge News, Reuters, FinTech Futures, Finextra, FinTech Global, and Yahoo Finance
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first products he has overseen in the fall, talks of new premium devices, hints at wearables like AR glasses — The introduction of tonier hardware, which will coexist with lower- and mid-priced products, is a bid to give consumers more choice …
More: Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, 9to5Mac, The Information, and AFTVnews
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord launches a Social SDK to let developers offer friends lists, cross-platform messaging, voice, and more, with console and mobile support “coming soon” — An easier way to connect with Discord friends. … Discord is launching a way for developers to directly integrate …
More: Discord Blog, PC Gamer, Thurrott, How-To Geek, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Developer Tech News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Kotaku, and VentureBeat
LinkedIn: Sumeet Vaidya, Kevin Hanaford, and Derek Yang
| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Alphabet spins off laser-based internet company Taara from its X “moonshot” incubator; Taara, which raised new funding, has its origins in Loon, closed in 2021 — Taara start-up aims to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink to connect remote areas to the internet using light beams
More: Engadget, PCMag, Patently Apple, The Verge, DatacenterDynamics, WinBuzzer, Sherwood News, and en.ain.ua
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox open sources Cube 3D, the first version of its AI foundation model for generating 3D objects, trained on licensed and public datasets and its own data — The model, Cube 3D, creates 3D models from a text prompt. … Roblox is launching and open-sourcing Cube 3D …
More: Roblox Corporate, Neowin, PocketGamer.biz, Axios, WinBuzzer, Maginative, Gameranx, Roblox Corporate, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Game Developer
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