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October 1, 2024, 7:40 AM

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CNBC:
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems files for a US IPO, reports a $66.6M net loss on $136.4M in sales in H1 2024, and plans to trade on the Nasdaq as CBRS  —  Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
MIT spinoff Liquid AI debuts its non-transformer AI models LFM 1B, 3B, and 40B MoE, and claims they achieve “state-of-the-art performance at every scale”  —  Liquid AI, a startup co-founded by former researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Some criticize YC-backed PearAI for forking another AI code editor covered under the Apache license and changing the license to its own made-up closed license  —  A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy.
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Apple asks a US judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order that Epic had won  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out or narrow a decision governing its lucrative App Store, saying …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Sony fixes a massive outage of its online gaming network PSN, affecting the PS3, PS4, PS5, PS Vita, web, and more, that was ongoing for over eight hours  —  PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 console users are now able to play online games again following a massive outage on Sony's gaming network that started on Monday night.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Notes on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which generates a podcast with two AI hosts discussing user-provided content and is surprisingly effective  —  Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google's NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now.
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
FCC connectivity data in counties affected by Hurricane Helene: as of September 30, 370 of North Carolina's 1,452 cell sites are out because of a lack of power  —  In some counties, fewer than 10% of all cellphone service sites are fully functioning.  —  Some of the victims of Hurricane Helene are cut off from the outside world.
Andrew Solomon / New Yorker:
A look at the debates over whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans  —  Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit moderators must now submit a request to Reddit staff before changing a subreddit's public/private status, making sitewide mod-led protests much harder  —  Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform.  Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able …
Bloomberg:
Oura says it expects annual sales to double to roughly $500M in 2024; sources say it plans a new, thinner fitness ring with better battery life in October 2024  —  - CEO expects ‘healthy’ growth, but has no imminent IPO plans  — New model will have improved battery life and thinner design
The Information:
Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's latest funding round, SoftBank's first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B  —  SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI's latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI  —  Udemy, an e-learning platform with more than 250,000 online classes, recently announced that it would train generative AI …
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US court awards Amazon a partial dismissal of an FTC lawsuit accusing it of illegal monopolies, in a sealed ruling whose details weren't immediately clear  —  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) won partial dismissal of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit accusing it of maintaining illegal monopolies …
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
An unredacted New Mexico lawsuit shows Snap grappled internally with how to warn users of Snapchat sextortion risks without striking fear in users or parents  —  New Mexico claims the social-media company's product features and enforcement gaps make its platform a haven for child predation and blackmail

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