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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A recap of the first day of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial, where both sides made their opening statements and Epic Games Store head Steve Allison testified — The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Ahead of former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony, documents and sources detail staff debates over fostering growth while protecting young users — A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety
More: Senate Committee on the Judiciary, BBC, Tech Xplore, and Hartford Courant
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Tech Coalition, which includes Discord, Google, Meta, Roblox, Snap, and Amazon, unveil Lantern to share “signals” about child sexual exploitation and abuse — The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation …
More: Tech Coalition, The Verge, Neowin, and Meta
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Docs: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and had trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios, prior to its California permitting crisis — In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
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LinkedIn: Matthew Clarke, Will Handzel, and Noah Gift
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| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
Leaked audio: at an all-hands meeting, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said the company is pausing production of its fully autonomous van Origin to address safety concerns — Reeling from a month in which the California DMV yanked Cruise's permits for its self-driving robotaxis and the company paused all operations …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple paused development last week of iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and will end the pause this week — - Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BGR, and MacDailyNews
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins to custom GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more — In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company's 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its bet to reclaim chipmaking leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company's … | Wall Street Journal: |
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta plans to bar political and other regulated advertisers from using its new generative AI ad products, after US lawmakers warn about spreading misinformation — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is barring political advertisers from using its new generative AI advertising products …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio's future under Microsoft, wrestling over releasing a game without live components, and more — Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft's huge acquisition …
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink after FDA trial approval: huge media coverage compared to rivals and worries over hype, but its tech is exciting and potentially miraculous — Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people's heads—and not just figuratively. — Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career.| CNBC: |
Cloud monitoring company Datadog's stock jumps ~30% after reporting Q3 revenue rose 25% YoY to $547.5M, vs. $524M est., and forecasted Q4 sales beat estimates — - Datadog surged nearly 30% in Tuesday trading after the company reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings and full-year guidance.
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| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google Photos' Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info — - Code within the latest version of Google Photos includes specific error messages that highlight the edits that Magic Editor will refuse to do.| Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
WeWork's bankruptcy caps a years-long saga for Masayoshi Son, who overrode lieutenants' objections to hand Adam Neumann billions, losing SoftBank over $11.5B — - Co-working space's bankruptcy highlights billionaire's hubris — Few checks on SoftBank CEO as he prepares to go on offensive
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.3B, a $221M net income, gross bookings up 21% YoY to $35.3B, trips up 25% YoY to 2.4B, and a record 6.5M drivers — Revenue was up 11 percent from a year earlier, helping to generate $221 million in net income. — Uber on Tuesday reported financial results …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Shein aims for an $80B to $90B valuation in its US IPO, vs. a $50B to $60B valuation in recent private trades; Shein was valued at $100B in April 2022 — - Timing of Shein's IPO remains uncertain given volatile market — Valuation dropped to $50 billion in recent private trades
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales from April to September grew 2% YoY to 6.84M — - Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday as it continues to get a bump from the …
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LinkedIn: Paolo Dal Santo and Richard King
| Reuters: |
Sources: Baidu ordered AI chips from Huawei in 2023 to shift away from Nvidia; a source says Baidu ordered 1,600 Ascend 910B chips, worth ~$62M, for 200 servers — Baidu (9888.HK) ordered artificial intelligence chips from Huawei (HWT.UL) this year, two people familiar with the matter said …
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| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Austin-based Black Ore, which builds AI tools for the financial services industry, emerges from stealth with a $60M combined Seed and Series A led by a16z — Financial technology startup Black Ore is coming out of stealth with a major investment. … Austin-based Black Ore is the latest AI startup …
More: Insider
| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Sources: Pico plans to cut “hundreds” of jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since ByteDance acquired the VR unit in 2021, as global headset demand weakens — ByteDance's virtual reality (VR) arm Pico will cut jobs and undertake its biggest overhaul since it was acquired … Sponsor Posts
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