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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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Forums: r/technews and r/BetterOffline
| 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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| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Sora saw 56K iOS installs on its first day, on par with Grok but ahead of Claude and Copilot; ChatGPT and Gemini each had ~80K installs on day one — OpenAI's Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch.| 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 …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a new command-line interface and public API to its AI coding agent Jules, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack — Google is bringing its AI coding agent Jules deeper into developer workflows with a new command-line interface and public API …
More: Jules, Google Developers Blog, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, The AI Economy, and TestingCatalog
| The Information: |
Sources: in recent weeks, Meta changed FAIR's publishing rules to require extra review, angering staff; Yann LeCun considered resigning over Meta's AI changes — In recent weeks, Meta Platforms made a change to its Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research lab that rubbed members … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100+ dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music — Instagram Threads, Meta's X rival that now has over 400 million monthly active users, is officially launching a new feature …
More: The Verge, Meta Newsroom, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and Mashable
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has committed $33B+ to neocloud providers; sources: its $19.4B Nebius deal will provide computing power for creating LLMs and a consumer AI assistant — Microsoft Corp.'s deal with neocloud company Nebius Group NV will provide computing power to internal teams creating large language models … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Red Hat confirms a breach of a GitLab instance after the extortion group Crimson Collective claimed to have stolen ~570GB of data from 28K internal repositories — Correction: After publishing, Red Hat confirmed that it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances, and not GitHub. Title and story updated.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Disney says that Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney+ from October 8 in non-US markets, in an effort to turn Hulu into an internationally recognized brand — Starting on October 8th, Hulu will replace Star on Disney Plus in international markets.
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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 …
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| Maya Dharampal-Hornby / Sifted: |
NYC-based Dash0, which offers AI agents to monitor and troubleshoot cloud, app, and infrastructure issues, raised a $35M Series A, taking its funding to $44.5M — The platform has over 300 paying customers including Starling and Porsche — Dash0, an AI-native observability platform …
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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| 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.
More: WinBuzzer, TipRanks Financial, and Reuters
| 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.
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Universal Music and Warner Music are nearing landmark AI licensing deals with companies like Google, Spotify, ElevenLabs, Stability AI, Suno, and Udio — Universal and Warner seek payment structure similar to streaming as more disruption looms — Universal Music and Warner Music …
More: The Verge, Digital Music News, Music Business Worldwide, CMU, Music Ally, and Reuters
| 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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| 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
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect — Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier this week … | 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 … | Washington Post: |
A look at a growing number of medical startups that are using robots and AI to fertilize embryos through IVF, helping birth 20+ babies through clinical trials — 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.| Financial Times: |
Volkswagen 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| 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 a $9M 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.
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