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Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic, with an initial investment of $1.25B for a minority stake in the AI startup, and an option to increase the total to $4B — Amazon Web Services lures Claude chatbot maker, which was valued at nearly $5bn earlier this year
More: Anthropic, The Information, Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Amazon News, CNBC, Fortune India, and Tech Xplore
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Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
DeFi project Mixin Network suspends deposits and withdrawals after suffering a hack involving about $200M; SlowMist: Mixin's cloud provider was compromised — - Compromise in cloud service provider's database led to breach — Project expected to give details in a livestream later today| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta plans to release AI chatbots with personalities, internally called Gen AI Personas, across its apps at this week's Connect, to attract young users — Facebook parent is developing bots with personalities, including a ‘sassmaster general’ robot that answers questions
More: The Verge, Analytics Insight, The Messenger, Analytics India Magazine, BigTechWire, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, Cryptopolitan, Social Media Today, and PYMNTS.com
| Sanket Vijayasarathy / 91mobiles: |
A leaked Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro promo video reveals new camera features: an Audio Eraser, the ability to swap faces, full manual controls like ISO, and more — - A new promo video focuses on the many camera features of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. — Both the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will get a 50MP primary camera.
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Forums: r/Android and r/GooglePixel
| Los Angeles Times: |
The WGA and AMPTP reach a tentative deal to end the strike; sources: the proposed three-year contract adds new AI rules, increases streaming residuals, and more — The Writers Guild of America and the major Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal that would end a strike that has lasted …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/entertainment, r/DC_Cinematic, r/FilmIndustryLA, r/boxoffice, r/dancingwiththestars, r/Yellowjackets, r/movies, r/popculturechat, r/oscarrace, r/doughboys, r/DCEUleaks, r/vfx, r/LiveFromNewYork, r/television, r/marvelstudios, r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers, r/StarWarsLeaks, and Slashdot
| McKenzie Funk / New York Times: |
A profile of Hank Asher, the “father of data fusion” who died in 2013 after initiating a vast shift in privacy norms through his data mining software companies — Hank Asher was a drug smuggler with a head for numbers — until he figured out how to turn Americans' private information into a big business.| Jody Serrano / The Messenger: |
Q&A with Kevin Systrom about Artifact's Links discovery feature, moderation, the bear case and bull case for Threads, the current state of Instagram, and more — Kevin Systrom hopes a fresh jolt of growth to his Artifact app allows it to compete better with the industry's bigger relics| New York Times: |
Some employees reminisce about Netflix's DVD subscription service, which upended the entertainment industry and is shutting down on September 29 after 25 years — The company's DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry.
X: @consensusgurus. LinkedIn: Barry W. Enderwick. Forums: Hacker News, r/television, r/movies, and r/boxoffice
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A look at the flood of near-identical YouTube obituary videos, in which men read obituaries scraped from authorized publishers like funeral homes and newspapers — If you Google someone who recently died, you might see a flood of near-identical videos of men reading obits. Here's why.| Abhirup Roy / Reuters: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes a bill that would have required a human safety operator in heavy-duty self-driving trucks on public roads in the state — California Governor Gavin Newsom late on Friday vetoed a bill to prevent heavy-duty driverless trucks from operating in the state …
More: Silicon Republic, Associated Press, PCMag, The Office of the California Governor Gavin Newsom, TechCrunch, International Brotherhood …, The Verge, Mashable, RedState, Los Angeles Times, Wired, FreightWaves, Politico, The Messenger, New York Times, Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, New York Post, and The Hill
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Forums: Hacker News and r/news
| Washington Post: |
Academics and US agencies are overhauling or ending online misinformation research due to Representative Jim Jordan and other Republicans' escalating campaign — An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation …
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LinkedIn: Alan Jagolinzer and Mark Dobson
Forums: r/ActiveMeasures and r/conservativeterrorism
| Reuters: |
A look at Scattered Spider, which experts say is a group of 17- to 22-year-old native English speakers likely behind MGM and 52+ other hacks since March 2022 — About a year ago, the U.S. security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren't the norm for cybercriminals.
More: Washington Post, Dark Reading, and CyberScoop
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