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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI completed a secondary share sale that let staff sell ~$6.6B at a $500B valuation, making it the world's most valuable startup, ahead of SpaceX — OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling …
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Sora, which is fun and simple to use, shows that OpenAI remains good at creating viral products, unlike Meta, whose Vibes video feed feels half-baked and obtuse — Another viral product hit for OpenAI, this time in video... It's been a long time since I've been this sucked into an app.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars — Within moments of opening OpenAI's new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS.
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| Financial Times: |
Asahi says most of its 30 factories in Japan have not operated since September 29 following a cyberattack, leaving Japan with just days of Asahi Super Dry stock — Vast majority of factories of nation's most popular beer have stopped work this week — Japan is just a few days away … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Extortion group Crimson Collective claims it breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, stealing nearly 570GB from 28K projects; Red Hat confirms a breach — An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple paused development of a lighter, cheaper Vision Pro to focus on smart glasses, including a no-display model for 2027 and one with a display later — Apple Inc. has hit pause on a planned overhaul to its Vision Pro headset to redirect resources toward a more urgent effort …
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| Bloomberg: |
A Google executive and sources: a ransomware group that says it has Cl0p ties is sending extortion emails, claiming it stole data from Oracle's E-Business Suite — Executives and technology departments at large organizations are being extorted by a notorious ransomware group that claims … | Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Universal Music and Warner Music are nearing landmark AI licensing deals with companies including Google, ElevenLabs, Stability AI, Suno, and Udio — Universal and Warner seek payment structure similar to streaming as more disruption looms — Universal Music and Warner Music …
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| Financial Times: |
A profile of Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban, who brokered EA's takeover with Jared Kushner, after the PE firm's high-stakes Endeavor, Altera, and TikTok deals — Dealmaker's $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts follows a spree of high-stakes transactions from TikTok to Endeavor
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Germany-based AI language platform DeepL held talks about a US IPO, and may seek an up to $5B valuation; DeepL raised $300M at a $2B valuation in 2024 — German artificial intelligence language platform DeepL is exploring a potential initial public offering in the US, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| David Jeans / Reuters: |
A look at Allen Control Systems, the maker of AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, co-founded by Steven Simoni, who sold Bbot to DoorDash for $125M — - Restaurant app founder pivots to AI-powered machine guns — Simoni builds hype with bravado, parties and podcasts
X: @reuters
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce launches Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise vibe-coding tool and IDE built on a fork of open-source AI coding agent Cline's Visual Studio Code extension — Enterprise giant Salesforce is looking to ride the vibe-coding wave — where developers describe what they want in natural language …
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| Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Perplexity is making its AI browser Comet, previously $200/month with Perplexity Max, free, with rate limits; Perplexity says Comet has millions on its waitlist — Follow Charles Rollet … Saved — Add us on — Perplexity is making its $200-a-month browser free for everyone.| Financial Times: |
VW revives its struggling software unit Cariad after a “complete reset” of its strategy, including partnerships with Xpeng in China and Rivian in the US — Carmaker hails ‘massive transformation’ in software unit as it seeks to take on Tesla and Chinese EV rivals| Will Knight / Wired: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models, in private beta, with support for Qwen and Llama — Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI.
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| Gregory Meyer / Financial Times: |
Walmart plans to attach sensors to the 90M grocery pallets it ships each year to its 4,600-store US chain by the end of 2026; tracked items include perishables — Retailer expands use of devices to monitor 90mn pallet deliveries a year from warehouses to its 4,600 US outlets| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
A look at China's push to integrate AI tools into children's lives, even as educators and researchers are skeptical and warn that AI's benefits are overstated — Government support and tech companies' drive for profit fuel a rush to integrate AI tools, from robot tutors to chatbots, in education and caretaking.| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Brave says it has surpassed 100M MAUs across desktop and mobile worldwide, including 42M+ DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B+ queries each month — Brave announced today that it now has over 100 million active users across desktop and mobile worldwide. — “100 million users represent …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Yahoo nears a deal to sell AOL to Italian app developer Bending Spoons for ~$1.4B; AOL.com's traffic has recently grown 20% YoY among users aged 25-54 — - Bending Spoons in advanced talks to buy AOL from Yahoo, sources say — The Italian unicorn has been on an acquisition spree, may IPO| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Disney says Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney+ on October 8 in international markets as part of Disney's plan to expand Hulu globally — Starting on October 8th, Hulu will replace Star on Disney Plus in international markets. … Disney is expanding Hulu to worldwide streaming audiences … | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Oneleet, an integrated compliance service combining penetration testing, code scanning, and more, raised a $33M Series A led by Dawn Capital and hits $3M ARR — Bryan Onel's father was a locksmith. As for Onel, he described himself as the digital equivalent. — Ethical hacking was Onel's hobby growing up.
More: Tech.eu
| Matt Durot / Forbes: |
Elon Musk became the first person to surpass a $500B net worth after Tesla's shares climbed on October 1; Musk is $150B ahead of runner-up Larry Ellison — Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire. — Elon Musk achieved yet another major milestone Wednesday …
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| TechCrunch: |
Source: HR software company Gusto paid ~$600M to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to SMBs; Guideline raised $340M and had a $1.15B valuation in 2021 — Last month, Gusto, a payroll and HR software company, announced that it agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup offering retirement plans to small and medium businesses.Sponsor Posts
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