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October 1, 2024, 6:30 PM

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more  —  A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028  —  HoloLens 2 production has ended, Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR.  —  Now is the last time to buy the device …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says it will start rolling out Click to Do, akin to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced Windows search improvements for Copilot+ PCs next month  —  Microsoft is using AI models to greatly improve Windows search on its new Copilot Plus PCs, including the addition of a new Click …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple nears production of an updated iPhone SE with a design that drops the home button and plans a new iPad mini this year and iPad Air models in 2025  —  - New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers  — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, Australia sanction the group  —  - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand Sonos' software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle  —  The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google announces new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key  —  Google is announcing new Chromebook models today with Samsung and Lenovo.  With Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus model in particular …
TechCrunch:
Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by a16z, valuing it at ~$350M; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M  —  11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts a public beta of its Realtime API to quickly make speech-to-speech features, a way to use images to fine-tune GPT-4o uses via its API, and more  —  It's been a tumultuous week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the startup back at it …

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