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OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario — Within moments of opening OpenAI's new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give …
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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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has paused development of a lighter Vision Pro to focus on smart glasses, a no-display model for a 2027 release, and a model 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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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI completed a secondary sale letting staff sell ~$6.6B in shares 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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| 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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| Rohan Goswami / Semafor: |
Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a foundry customer; Intel lacks the technology to produce AMD's most advanced chips; INTC closed up 7.12% — THE SCOOP — Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a customer at Intel's factories, in what would be another vote …
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| Bloomberg: |
Silver Lake, whose $24B deal to take Dell private in 2013 became its calling card, sees a similar setup in EA: a recognizable brand with predictable cash flows — For years, record books for the biggest leveraged buyouts had the expected names at the top: industry pioneer KKR & Co., trillion-dollar behemoth Blackstone Inc.| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
T-Mobile expands its Starlink satellite service to support WhatsApp, Google Maps, X, and other apps, after launching it in July with basic features like SMS — T-Mobile (TMUS.O) said on Wednesday its satellite-to-cell network now supports widely used apps, including WhatsApp, Google Maps and X …
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
A Google executive and sources say a ransomware group presumably tied to Cl0p 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 … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella hands marketing and operations oversight to Judson Althoff, naming him CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, to focus more on technical work — Microsoft Corp. is giving its longtime sales chief oversight of marketing and operations in a reorganization designed to free …
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce launches Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise vibe-coding tool and IDE built on a fork of the open-source AI 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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| 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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft launches a $19.99/month Microsoft 365 Premium subscription, which bundles Copilot Pro with Microsoft 365 Family for six users and 6TB of cloud storage — Microsoft said Wednesday that it will stop promoting a consumer subscription for artificial intelligence services and introduced …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China curbs the use of European suppliers Nokia and Ericsson in its telecoms networks, requiring lengthy national security reviews for their contracts — Beijing's national security drive hits European groups even as Huawei maintains its business on the continent| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta says it will use users' AI chatbot conversations to help personalize ads and content, starting on December 16, but not in the UK, South Korea, or the EU — While users won't be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded
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| Washington Post: |
A look at a growing number of medical startups that are using robots and AI to fertilize embryos through IVF, helping bring at least 20 babies to term — MEXICO CITY — When she walked into an IVF clinic in June, Alin Quintana knew it would be the last time she would try to conceive a child.
Bluesky: @drewharwell.com
| 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 … | John Reynolds / Tech.eu: |
London-based neocloud startup Nscale closed a $433M pre-Series C SAFE round from Nvidia, Nokia, Dell, and others, after raising a $1.1B Series B on September 25 — Nscale CEO Josh Payne said he was “overwhelmed” by investor interest. — Nscale, the UK-based AI data centre startup …
More: Silicon Republic, Nscale, Tech Funding News, DatacenterDynamics, UKTN, Silicon Canals, and Sifted
| David Jeans / Reuters: |
A look at Allen Control Systems, maker of AI-powered gun turrets designed to shoot 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
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Google Assistant on smart speakers, with new voices and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app — Gemini for Home does more than just replace Google Assistant on smart speakers and displays. Featuring a rebuilt Home architecture …
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X: @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, @automateyoulife, @tomwarren, @anishkattukaran, @google, @madebygoogle, and @davezatz. LinkedIn: Anish Kattukaran. Threads: @sung.kim.mw
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