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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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Threads: @katienotopoulos, @szed_ar, @mgsiegler, @mwi.invest, and @alexheath
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
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 … | 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 …
More: MacRumors, Digit, The Indian Express, PhoneArena, UploadVR, Reuters, Tom's Guide, Android Headlines, Cult of Mac, iClarified, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, 9to5Mac, CNET, The Verge, and iPhone in Canada
X: @samsheffer, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @munster_gene, @heaney555, and @patrickmoorhead. Bluesky: @hilli.tech
Forums: r/VisionPro, r/apple, r/virtualreality, r/virtualreality, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: Thinking Machines Lab, Anyscale, Implicator.ai, and The Information
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/technews, and Slashdot
| 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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Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 closes 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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| 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 …
More: Microsoft, The Verge, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, MediaPost, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, The Register, MarketWatch, CNBC, Thurrott, Business Insider, and The Information
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Forums: r/microsoft, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 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.| 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 … | 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 …
More: Salesforce Developers, CIO Dive, The New Stack, and Techstrong.ai
Bluesky: @prietschka and @techcrunch.com
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK Home Office issued an order to Apple in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only UK users — Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption
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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
| 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| 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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Forums: r/Android, r/Nest, and r/googlehome
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
More: The Keyword, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Droid Life, Chrome Unboxed, Phandroid, Wired, and The Verge
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Simple, an AI-powered health coaching app to help users lose weight, raised a $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures — Mike Prytkov said he knows what it's like to let stress take over one's life. — While building his first company, he said he worked long hours and gained weight.| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
China's recently launched K visa program hopes to attract foreign STEM graduates, but faces online backlash over fears of companies favoring overseas applicants — The big story — Immigration anxieties and a challenging job market have sparked an online backlash over China's latest attempt … | 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 Sept. 25 — Nscale CEO Josh Payne said he was “overwhelmed” by investor interest. — Nscale, the UK-based AI data centre startup …
More: Tech Funding News, Sifted, Silicon Canals, DatacenterDynamics, UKTN, and Nscale
| Matt Durot / Forbes: |
Elon Musk became the first person with a net worth of $500B after Tesla 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 … | 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 …
More: Financial Times, Reuters, CNBC, and The Straits Times
| Bloomberg: |
Data center real estate investment trust Fermi, co-founded by former US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, closed up 55% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing Fermi at ~$19.3B — Fermi Inc. shares rose 55% in their debut after the energy real estate investment trust raised $682.5 million in its US listing …
More: Benzinga, The Times, and Financial Times
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
T-Mobile expands its Starlink satellite service to support apps such as WhatsApp, Google Maps, and X, 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 …
More: Temporal, MacRumors, T-Mobile, Droid Life, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Engadget, How-To Geek, BGR, and Android Authority
| Bloomberg: |
A Google exec 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 …
More: CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, Times Now, and The Hindu BusinessLine
| 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.
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| Washington Post: |
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