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Sources: Apple was caught flat-footed by the generative AI fever and is on course to spend ~$1B/year to add the tech across iOS 18, Siri, Music, and other apps — But the company is now preparing its response and plans to develop features for its full range of devices.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Gurman: Apple is planning a “Mac-centered product launch” around October's end and may release an updated 24-inch iMac; the current model launched in April 2021 — Apple is planning a Mac-focused product launch, likely including the announcement of a refreshed 24-inch iMac …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/mac, and MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
The Global Times: China opens a Foxconn investigation over tax and land use, inspecting Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, and Hubei sites; Foxconn plans to cooperate — Tax authorities said to have inspected a number of the Apple supplier's sites in provinces — China has launched an investigation …
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LinkedIn: Wei-Chieh Wang and Martijn Rasser
| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
The Worldcoin Foundation plans to pay orb operators, who scan people into the Worldcoin network, in WLD rather than USDC in December and has issued ~134M WLD — - In a recent blog post, the Worldcoin Foundation announced that orb operators, who assist people in scanning their eyes to join …
More: Worldcoin, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and Cryptonews. X: @0xfattyfrog
| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: the iPhone 15 lineup has ~10% more expensive components than the iPhone 14 lineup; iPhone 15 Pro Max costs rose to $558, up 12% from the 14 Pro Max — Apple largely shoulders costs of zoom camera and 3-nm chip: Nikkei analysis — South Korea provided 29% of the latest iPhone series' parts … | Beth Wang / Bloomberg Law: |
A US jury finds Google guilty of gender bias and awards female executive Ulku Rowe $1M+, the first pay discrimination case against Google since 2018's walkouts — Google LLC treated female executive Ulku Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender and must pay her more than $1 million …
More: The Verge, Beyond Search, and Engadget
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Japan's FTC opens an investigation into Google over alleged antitrust violations; a report says the focus will be if Google asked OEMs to prioritize its search — - The FTC said it is looking into Google's business practices — The US is mounting a broad investigation into the company| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Crunchbase: Black US founders raised ~$39.7M, or 0.13% of all capital allocated to startups in Q3 2023, down from $212M in Q2, $352M in Q1, and $1B in Q3 2022 — Black founders raised 0.13% of all capital allocated to U.S. startups in Q3, according to Crunchbase. That's about $39.7 million out of $29.9 billion.
Threads: @carnage4life. X: @johnhenrystyle, @poettpetty, and @dominicmadori
LinkedIn: Gary Stewart, Jailany Thiaw, Pedro Moore, and Johnnie Turnage
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region using wide-ranging online disinformation campaigns — This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments.
More: Financial Times. Threads: @carnage4life, @renee.diresta, and @carnage4life
X: @alenapopova, @moonalice, @lizzadwoskin, @catherinebelton, @lizzadwoskin, @gerritd, and @maxboot. Forums: Slashdot
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
A profile of data labeler Scale AI, which has a $249M contract with the US DoD and was the first AI company to have an LLM deployed on a classified network — The tech start-up says the United States needs Silicon Valley to compete with China. Others fear a deadly arms race.
X: @hkanji, @anabrandusescu, @lizzadwoskin, and @charlesrollet1
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Tinder rolls out Tinder Matchmaker, which lets loved ones view and recommend potential matches, in the US, the UK, and 13 others ahead of a global launch soon — If you're the kind of person who asks friends and family for help with your love life, Tinder is aiming to make things a little easier …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, and Tinder Newsroom
| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Fei-Fei Li and NTIA head Alan Davidson on regulating AI, US and China tech competition, the representation of women and PoC in AI discussions, and more — Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and the Commerce Department's Alan Davidson agree that artificial intelligence has the potential to do a lot of good.
LinkedIn: Fei-Fei Li and Rudolf Wagner
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