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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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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Matt Kroll
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/mlscaling, and r/singularity
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
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| Financial Times: |
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more — The technology, which marries Meta's smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WP Engine files a lawsuit in California against Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of “abuse of power, extortion, and greed” — Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed a lawsuit against Automattic, and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Wordpress
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting an RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers, disclosed on September 27, triggered by emailing the SMTP server — Hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers that can be triggered simply …
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| 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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| Nicola M. White / Bloomberg: |
Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC's top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11 — - Grewal helped lead WhatsApp probes, crypto industry crackdown — SEC official was previously New Jersey's attorney general| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Co-founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith plan to close the World Wide Web Foundation after 15 years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible — Who wants to join his so Solid crew? — After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down.
More: World Wide Web Foundation, Fortune, TechSpot, Computerworld, and TechRadar
| 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.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, seeking to reverse a July 2023 ruling that XRP sales on retail exchanges didn't violate securities rules — A federal judge ruled last year that the SEC had not made its case that Ripple violated securities law by selling XRP to retail customers through exchanges.
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| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Accenture says it will train 30K employees on Nvidia's AI tech 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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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: Q3 US VC investments rose ~8% YoY to $37.9B across 3,777 deals; AI startups got 36% of the deal value and 27% of the deal count from Q1 to Q3 2024 — Artificial intelligence firms received more than one-third of the funds in the third quarter.
More: SiliconANGLE and PitchBook
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app — Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover. The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4 …
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Forums: r/ouraring and r/ouraring
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Offline Backup, a playlist of downloaded songs that users recently listened to, available automatically for Premium users — Spotify introduced a new feature today called Offline Backup. This feature for premium users is essentially a list of songs you recently listened to and that you can consume offline.
More: Engadget, T3, Spotify, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Chris Tapsell / Eurogamer.net: |
An in-depth account of how CD Projekt Red recovered from the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, using a fully parallelized engine to test and resolve issues — “We knew we were in deep trouble.” — Follow Cyberpunk 2077 — “Beep.” — On 10th January, 2018, Marcin Momot … Sponsor Posts
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