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Brady Dale / Axios:
Caroline Ellison, a star witness in prosecuting FTX founder and ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the scandal  —  - “I've seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years. … - She talked to the government prior to Bankman-Fried's arrest …
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers  —  House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms”  —  The union charges one of the multiplayer game's producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps  —  Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more.
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works  —  At a secure room in its San Francisco office, representatives for authors suing OpenAI will examine materials that were used to train its AI system.
Forums: r/aiwars
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has tried to unlawfully crush competitors, including PayPal and Square  —  The financial service company reportedly tried to ‘smother’ competitors and feared Apple as an ‘existential threat.’
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
MoneyGram, the world's second largest money transfer company, blames an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users  —  U.S.-based money transfer giant MoneyGram has blamed an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting the company and its users.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users  —  OpenAI announced it is rolling out Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to an expanded set of ChatGPT's paying customers on Tuesday.
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies  —  - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade  — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Google Cloud debuts Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro with a 2M context window, twice as big as before, “grounding” for better Google search accuracy, and new agents  —  Google Cloud launched a series of updates including new Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro models with a 2 million context window …
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Chainalysis: inflows to China's over-the-counter crypto brokers topped $20B in Q4 2023, Q1 2024, and Q2 2024 for $75.4B in total, despite Beijing's crypto ban  —  - Study signals a record streak of demand for China OTC traders  — Figures add to evidence of Beijing's crypto ban being flouted
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Sony announces seven new games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games  —  Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.
New York Times:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg wants to get away from politics, pulling back from charitable causes that may seem partisan, tamping down employee activism, and more  —  It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Marques Brownlee says “I hear you” after criticism of his new freemium wallpaper app Panels over privacy concerns, paying $50 per year for full access, and more  —  Marques Brownlee, the YouTuber known as MKBHD, has responded to backlash over the launch of his new wallpaper app, called Panels.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection with the goal of exfiltrating all user input  —  Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.  —  When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …

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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Atlas Obscura's co-founders were pushed out of the company amid clashes with CEO Louise Story, who has trimmed staff and changed editorial strategy

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Reece Rogers / Wired:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has joined its board of directors; Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju was previously CEO of VFX company WETA Digital
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after launching in the UK and Australia
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