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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia and Intel partner to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel's stock at $23.28 per share, a ~5% stake; INTC jumps 23% — Cats and Dogs, living together! — In a surprising announcement that finds two long-time rivals working together …
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google is rolling out a Gemini button in Chrome for all desktop users in the US browsing in English, and other AI features, including AI Mode in the address bar — Google weaving Gemini further into the popular Chrome browser is an inflection point for AI in our software, although some users will still be looking for the “off” switch.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30 — Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest bid to reframe Meta, focusing on “personal superintelligence”, but they face technical and societal challenges — They're trying to back AI and Smart Glasses into the ‘Metaverse’... Live tech demos are a bitch.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta announces a preview of the Wearable Device Access Toolkit, which lets developers build apps that use the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses — A waitlist is open now for a developer preview. … Meta is going to let apps access the vision and audio capabilities … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei unveils the Atlas 950 SuperPoD with 8,192 Ascend NPUs and the Atlas 960 SuperPoD with 15,488 Ascend NPUs, both with Huawei's new HBM, to challenge Nvidia — Huawei Technologies Co. unveiled new technology from memory chips to AI accelerators Thursday, outlining publicly …
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| Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / Sherwood News: |
Rex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US after the SEC approved generic listing standards, paving the way for speedier ETF listings — Rex Osprey launched the first spot XRP and doge ETFs today, while Grayscale will soon launch its just-approved multi-asset fund. — 4h
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
In a peer-reviewed Nature article update, DeepSeek says it spent $294K on training its reasoning-focused R1 model and used 512 Nvidia H800 chips for 80 hours — Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for U.S. rivals …
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| Bloomberg: |
Netskope closes up 18.37% at $22.49 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $8.6B market value, after the cybersecurity company raised $908.2M in its IPO — Netskope Inc. jumped 18% in its trading debut, after the cybersecurity firm raised $908.2 million in an initial public offering.| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of bots and large-scale resale operations — The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use …
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| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Samsung rolls out a software update to display promotions and ads on the Cover Screens of some Family Hub refrigerators in the US as part of a pilot program — Ads will be displayed on your Samsung smart fridge when the Cover Screen is idle on certain themes. — • — • — •
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| Peter Flanagan / The Irish Times: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission appoints Niamh Sweeney, Facebook's former head of public policy in Ireland, as its new commissioner, starting on October 13 — Niamh Sweeney to take up role in October — Former tech industry lobbyist Niamh Sweeney has been named to the Data Protection Commission …
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| Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters: |
Deliveroo says that CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the £2.9B deal, announced in May, is expected to close by October 2 — British food delivery firm Deliveroo (ROO.L) said on Thursday founder and CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by U.S. rival DoorDash takes effect.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has held discussions with Axel Springer, Fox Corp., News Corp, and others in recent months about licensing their articles for use in its AI tools — The overtures mark a shift in the Facebook parent's relationships with news outlets and other publishers
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| Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal: |
British renewable energy startup Octopus Energy spins off its AI arm, Kraken, in what could create a stand-alone entity worth $15B — Kraken could look to go public within the next year as it aims for U.S. growth — British renewable-energy startup Octopus Energy is spinning off …
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| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
Inside Apple's Audio Lab, where the company develops features like spatial audio and uses tuning studios as reference points for AirPods Pro and other products — Inside Apple Audio Labs — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how it fixed them — This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened …
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian acquires developer productivity insight platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350+ enterprise customers and raised less than $5M — Productivity software giant Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet to add a developer productivity tool to its product suite.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Nothing launches Ear 3, with a Super Mic system featuring two mics activated by a Talk button on one side of the case, available from September 25 for $179 — The Ear 3 buds feature a ‘Super Mic’ in the case for clearer calls and voice notes. … Modern earbuds often tout how many microphones …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where Meta announced Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with and without a display, new Meta Oakley glasses, Horizon updates, and more — Expect a lot of smart glasses and AI talk this year, with a dash of the metaverse and VR. — Who's excited for smart glasses?
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LinkedIn: Bobby Carlton, Vedagiri Vijayakumar, Shrirang Yardi, and Xiang Zhang
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| Meta on YouTube: |
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LinkedIn: Evan Shugerman and Shruti Dube
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: several xAI execs left after clashing with two of Musk's closest advisers over concerns about unrealistic financial projections and xAI's management — Some who left say they were concerned about the artificial intelligence company's financial projections| Yusuke Ogawa / Reuters: |
Source: SoftBank's plans for a joint venture with OpenAI to bring AI to Japanese corporate customers are behind schedule; a progress update is set for November — SoftBank's (9984.T) plans to set up a joint venture with OpenAI to bring artificial intelligence services to corporate customers … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, which lets creators use AI prompts to make VR worlds, powered by its “built from scratch” Horizon Engine — The Horizon Engine powers ‘better graphics’ for Meta's Horizon Worlds social platform.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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