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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.
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| New York Times: |
Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left because xAI abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, and 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.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia is in advanced discussions to invest $500M in UK self-driving car startup Wayve, as part of a £2B pledge for UK startups; Wayve is evaluating — AI chipmaker's chief tells London audience that UK's first trillion-dollar company will be an AI business
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
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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 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
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Nvidia spent $900M+ in cash and stock to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and others at the AI hardware startup and to license its GPU-connecting tech — Nvidia has just shelled out over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the artificial intelligence …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon, the nonprofit that maintains the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse — Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X …
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| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
The US DOJ charges a UK teen allegedly tied to Scattered Spider over 120+ cyberattacks and the UK charged him and 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
SoftBank's Vision Fund plans layoffs; sources say ~20% of staff will be impacted as SoftBank shifts resources to Masayoshi Son's large-scale AI bets in the US — - Vision Fund shifts focus to support AI ambitions of founder Masayoshi Son — Son's strategy returns to high-risk, high-reward investments
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
The Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest attempt to reframe Meta, now on “personal superintelligence”, but they face tech 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: |
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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.| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices — As OpenAI's plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent …
More: Reuters
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
A look at China's brain-computer interface industry as startups like BrainCo grow with state support; CCID says the sector is worth $450M, growing 20% annually — Despite a late foray into the brain technology industry, Chinese startups have made rapid strides in recent years to challenge US companies.Sponsor Posts
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World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
Zoho:
Fixing communication friction: How Zoho Workplace gives every conversation the right space — Work doesn't break all at once. It slowly, silently wears out. It's not the dramatic communication failures that kill productivity.
Fixing communication friction: How Zoho Workplace gives every conversation the right space — Work doesn't break all at once. It slowly, silently wears out. It's not the dramatic communication failures that kill productivity.
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The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.
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