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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 25%+ — Cats and Dogs, living together! — In a surprising announcement that finds two long-time rivals working together …
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X: @patrickmoorhead, @lipbutan1, @oren_cass, @carygolomb, @techepiphanyyt, @danielnewmanuv, @rayno, @metacriticcap, @theaustinlyons, @mattzeitlin, @tomwarren, @iancutress, @atrupar, @netcapgirl, @jukanlosreve, @nvidianewsroom, @markhachman, @benbajarin, @intelnews, @benbajarin, @mingchikuo, @tculpan, @benbajarin, @tculpan, @patrickmoorhead, and @hshaban
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Forums: Hacker News, r/AyyMD, r/nvidia, r/pcgaming, r/technology, r/hardware, and Slashdot
| 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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| 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 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), doubling the battery life to 8 hours and with 3K Ultra HD video capture for up to three minutes, available now for $329+ — The Gen 2 glasses have up to eight hours of continuous battery on a single charge, up from four on the previous edition.
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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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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils the Oakley Meta Vanguard, with a 12MP wide-angle camera, Garmin and Strava, and immersive audio, preorder now and shipping from October 21 for $499 — At Meta Connect 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled its new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses that are geared toward runners, cyclists, and other athletes.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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Threads: @wongmjane, @documentingmeta, @rpn, @szed_ar, @crumbler, @crumbler, and @crumbler
Forums: Hacker News, r/freeflight, and r/RayBanStories
| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
| 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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| 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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X: @_philschmid, @sundarpichai, @google, @backlon, @backlon, and @laparisa. LinkedIn: Yaowu Xu. Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe
| 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. — • — • — •
More: The Verge, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Android Police, ZDNET, Mashable, Sam Lover, PCMag, and SammyGuru
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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.| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
A look at Live Translation on AirPods Pro, one of the strongest examples yet of how AI can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people's lives — The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people's lives.| 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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X: @noybeu. LinkedIn: Suchismita Bardhan. Bluesky: @2patchitup, @tante.cc, and @gateklons. Mastodon: @ilumium@eupolicy.social
| 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 …
More: The Register, Gizmodo, Nature, Proactive, and The Decoder
Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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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X: @_sholtodouglas, @ctrlaltdwayne, @markshust, @claudeai, @tszzl, @krinetix1234, @vikhyatk, @aihsannergiz, and @rmedranollamas
LinkedIn: Jon Hammant, Todd Underwood, and Yunlong Liu. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and r/ClaudeAI
| 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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| 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
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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.
More: Work Life, Forbes, The Register, Capital Brief, Times of India, and Cautious Optimism. LinkedIn: Rajeev Rajan
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Pangea, which protects companies from prompt injection attacks by monitoring AI's interactions with users and software, for ~$260M — Cyber vendor adds to detection and response capabilities as AI security threats are on the rise
More: CrowdStrike, CNBC, Forbes, SecurityWeek, Forbes, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Oliver Friedrichs
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google partners with StopNCII.org and says it will start using its hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them — The company has been slower to get onboard with StopNCII's hashes than much of the industry. … Hashes are algorithmically-generated …
More: PCMag, TechCrunch, The Keyword, and NDTV Profit
| 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 …
More: PCMag, Nothing Community, Nothing on YouTube, Gizmodo, Droid Life, Engadget, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Trusted Reviews, Bloomberg, and ZDNET
X: @maxjmb, @beebomco, @akisevangelidis, @raywongy, @nothing, @getpeid, @bengeskin, @nothing, @raywongy, and @chriswelch
| 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 …
More: Yahoo Finance, The Times, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, and Sifted
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Numeral, which provides AI-powered sales tax compliance software, raised a $35M Series B led by Mayfield at a $350M valuation, six months after an $18M Series A — Sam Ross, the co-founder and CEO of Numeral, came up with the idea for his sales tax compliance startup while traveling the world … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Q&A with CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela on Runway's “world models” breakthrough, how it differs from typical AI video generation, the Lionsgate partnership, and more — Co-founder of the first AI platform to partner with a Hollywood studio on video generation talks … | 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.
More: UploadVR, UploadVR, Meta, XR Today, Road to VR, GamesBeat, Android Central, Tom's Guide, and UploadVR
X: @munster_gene, @lunayian, @vquinn, @nearcyan, and @chatgpt21
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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X: @chknlvr8455, @chatgpt21, @thomas_voland, @vquinn, @3eyedtiger, @vquinn, @munster_gene, and @greengart. Bluesky: @aaronrosspowell.com. Threads: @thebrianpenny
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