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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile — If you can't capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you're seeing.
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LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner and Robby Stein
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews for when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US — Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you'll now start seeing products in some of the search engine's AI-generated summaries.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users — OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”
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Forums: r/ChatGPTPro and Slashdot
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI gets a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and others, on top of the $6.6B in funding, bringing its liquidity to $10B+ — OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned.
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 — - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK
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LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman, Ben Johnson, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube updates Shorts with the ability for creators to upload up to three-minute videos, a streamlined Shorts player, templates, and a new trends mobile page — YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.
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LinkedIn: Vadim Lavrusik and Gwen Miller
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results — On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CCData: Binance's trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 — - Overall market share fell to 36.6% last month, CCData says — Binance saw the most severe share drop among top exchanges
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M — AI tends to make things up. That's unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking — Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Google Developers Blog: |
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster 1.5 Flash variant with a 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts — Today, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, our latest Flash variant, is production-ready and comes with: — Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8b …
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