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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI raised $6.6B led by Thrive Capital, the largest VC deal of all time, valuing it at $157B, with participation from Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, and others — - Not taking part, a source confirms, is Apple, which reportedly had been in talks to invest.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI has asked investors to avoid backing rival startups such as Anthropic and xAI, an exclusive funding arrangement to keep its generative AI lead — Sam Altman-led group wants exclusive arrangement as it secures $6.6bn funding round — OpenAI has asked investors …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Gmail for Android and iOS with new summary cards that are more glanceable and actionable and a new “Happening soon” section above the inbox — Gmail for Android and iOS are getting new summary cards that are more glanceable and actionable, with Google also directly surfacing them in your inbox.| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Amazon plans to increase the number of ads on Prime Video in 2025 after not seeing a sharp drop in subscribers since adding advertisements in January 2024 — Ecommerce group attempting to win over more brands as it steps up push into ad-funded streaming services in 2025
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| Bloomberg: |
Poolside, which is building AI-assisted software development tools, raised a $500M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, reportedly at a $3B valuation — - Company hasn't released its product or given a launch timeline — Investment shows continued investor appetite for AI startups
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| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
Amazon announces a new lineup of Fire HD 8 tablets, with 50% more RAM than the previous models, and three new generative AI features for compatible Fire tablets — Amazon launches new Fire HD 8 tablets, rolls out three new AI features. — • — TL;DR — Amazon is launching a new lineup of Fire HD 8 tablets.| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Accenture says it will train 30,000 employees on Nvidia technology and start a new Nvidia Business Group focused on driving enterprise adoption of AI agents — The global services powerhouse says its newly formed Nvidia Business Group will focus on driving enterprise adoption …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
VC firm CRV plans to return $275M from its $500M Select fund, citing worsening market conditions and high startup valuations relative to their potential payoff — CRV, based in Silicon Valley, plans to return to investors $275 million because the market for mature start-ups has soured.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a $150 standalone version of Office 2024 for consumers and SMBs, with core app updates and UI changes; the last standalone was Office 2021 — Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365.
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| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA fines Starling Bank £29M over its “shockingly lax” controls against financial crime, like potential money laundering and sanctions breaches — FCA said lender's efforts to identify potential money laundering ‘did not keep pace’ with its growth
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| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Meta rolls out Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange to let UK banks share transaction intel to help catch scammers, after a pilot with NatWest and Metro Bank — Tech group to roll out channel for sharing of transaction intelligence — Facebook owner Meta is launching a data-sharing partnership …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Character.AI CEO Dominic Perella says the startup has largely abandoned building AI models after Google poached its founders, focusing on its chatbots instead — AI start-up's new chief says race to build large language models against Big Tech got ‘insanely expensive’| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Automattic demanded an 8% cut of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal proposed on September 20; WP Engine declined — Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google teams in recent months have made progress on AI reasoning models, akin to OpenAI's o1; source: some at DeepMind are worried about falling behind — The push deepens the search giant's rivalry with OpenAI — Google is working on artificial intelligence software that resembles …
More: Neowin, TechRadar, Quartz, The Crypto Times, The Decoder, and NewsBytes. Forums: r/singularity
| Sebastiaan de With / Lux: |
iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, and Camera Control, Zero Shutter Lag, and its advanced Photographic Styles impress — For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert. Take a deep dive into what's new — and why it's close to the last of its kind.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Some iOS developers worry that an iOS 18 change letting users choose contacts an app can access may make growing social apps hard; Apple says it boosts privacy — This year, when Apple announced iOS 18, the latest version of its mobile operating system, most of the attention went to its slate of new artificial intelligence features.
More: OS X Daily, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, and Tech Advisor
| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his post about ToS updates “may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works” but “in reality, little has changed” — The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
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