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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
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 …
More: Reuters, The Times, CRN, CTech, Investor's Business Daily, Silicon Valley Business …, The Information, Bloomberg, Ynetnews, TipRanks Financial, and Yahoo Finance
X: @rekdt and @laurenthomas
LinkedIn: Tyler Shields, Sid Trivedi, and Pramod Gosavi
| 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
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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.
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| 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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| 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, Barron's Online, Cryptopolitan, New York Post, WinBuzzer, Capital Brief, Quartz, and DNyuz
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| Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation — Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2 enter the ring. — Qualcomm expanded its Snapdragon G series …
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X: @onexplayer_, @snapdragon, @ayaneo__, and @mishaalrahman
| 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: PhoneArena, 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.
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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
| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Kevin Hanaford, Sumeet Vaidya, and Derek Yang
| 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
| The Information: |
Liam Fedus, VP of research in charge of post-training at OpenAI, is leaving the company to found a startup focused on using AI to discover new materials — Liam Fedus, vice president of research in charge of post-training at OpenAI, is leaving the company, a company spokesperson confirmed.
| 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: SiliconANGLE, Engadget, PCMag, Patently Apple, The Verge, DatacenterDynamics, WinBuzzer, Sherwood News, and en.ain.ua
| 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
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