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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel stock at $23.28 per share, a ~5% stake, as the companies partner to develop x86 products for data centers and PCs; INTC jumps 22.8% — Cats and Dogs, living together! — In a surprising announcement that finds two long-time rivals working together …
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
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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 new 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, Notion, Notion, The Verge, and Fast Company
| 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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| 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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| 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: SiliconANGLE, The Times, and Yahoo Finance
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan on new AI tools to help creators, YouTube's dominance on TVs, helping creators better monetize sponsorships, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Mohan joined Google as part of the DoubleClick acquisition in 2007 … | 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| 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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| Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: |
LA-based Lingokids, an interactive learning app for kids aged 2-8, raised $120M led by Bullhound Capital and General Catalyst to help expand its IP partnerships — Lingokids, the top interactive app for kids ages two to eight and used by more than 185 million families worldwide, has raised $120 million in new financing.
More: FinSMEs, GlobeNewswire News Room, Kidscreen, and PocketGamer.biz
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: White House weighs more CFTC chair candidates, including government officials focused on crypto policy, as Brian Quintenz's nomination remains stalled — The White House is weighing additional candidates to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as the confirmation process …
More: Wall Street Journal, Cryptonews, and Raw Story
| 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 — Listening to the AirPods Pro 3 for the first time, I wondered aloud how Apple put so much audio space inside those tiny wireless earbuds.
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
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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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Mastodon: @patrickleavy@mastodon.social, @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, and @ilumium@eupolicy.social. Forums: r/europe
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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