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Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google unveils new AI features for Chrome, including a Gemini button and AI Mode for US desktop users, and plans to add agentic features in the next few months  —  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.
Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / Sherwood News:
Rex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US, after the SEC approved the Generic Listing Standards, paving the way for speedier listings  —  Rex Osprey launched the first spot XRP and doge ETFs today, while Grayscale will soon launch its just-approved multi-asset fund.  —  4h
New York Times:
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left over concerns it abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, more  —  Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI.  The result was chaos.
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.
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
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a broader £2B funding pledge in UK startups  —  AI chipmaker's chief tells London audience that UK's first trillion-dollar company will be an AI business
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Nvidia plans to invest £2B to support the UK's AI industry in partnership with Accel, Air Street Capital, Balderton Capital, Hoxton Ventures, and Phoenix Court
CNBC:
Sources: Nvidia spent more than $900M to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the AI hardware startup and to license the company's technology  —  Nvidia has just shelled out over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the artificial …
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.
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
A UK teenager allegedly tied to Scattered Spider is charged in the US over 120+ cyberattacks, and in the UK with another teen over a Transport for London hack  —  The 19-year-old is alleged to have extracted $115mn in ransom payments from victims  —  A British teenager has been charged …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Notion launches customizable agents that can create documents and perform other actions in the background, and says it has reached $500M in annualized revenue  —  OpenAI's public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 is widely viewed as the event that kicked off the generative AI boom …
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.  —  •  —  •  —  •
Alex Wickham / Bloomberg:
MI6 launched Silent Courier, an online portal hosted on the dark web designed to let potential spies from Russia and elsewhere communicate with UK intelligence  —  The UK's foreign intelligence service, MI6, launched a new online portal which it says will allow potential spies in Russia …

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