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Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case — - Antitrust officials also mull making Google share search data — Justice Department proposes multiple options in historic case| Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: |
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The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction” — - Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins| Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: |
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Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that some users had committed crimes of “child sexual abuse and obscenity” — Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord following a court decision, the country's infotech regulator said on Wednesday.| Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post: |
Russia's Roskomnadzor bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units on the battlefield in Ukraine — The ban has also renewed a wider debate about how Russia's bureaucratic machine keeps frustrating the military effort.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon aims to deploy Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval, an AI tool to help drivers quickly find the right package in delivery vans, in 1,000 vans by early 2025 — - Technology will shorten typical delivery route by 30 minutes — Amazon.com Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool designed … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus — - Headset group will be overseen by hardware leader John Ternus — The retiring executive had worked at Apple for over 26 years| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, plans to add 15 more countries over the coming weeks, and adds it to its Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK — 15 more countries will get access over the coming weeks. — Meta AI is beginning a big international rollout.| Reuters: |
FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it will require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2's final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update — Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21.| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference — ChatGPT maker considers largely untested company model to protect chief executive Sam Altman from outside interference| Associated Press: |
The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test — That long-held Wimbledon tradition of line judges dressed in elegant uniforms is no more.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance” — MediaTek has formally announced its new flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9400.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that allows users to create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar from a video clip they record of themselves — Zoom wants to turn you into an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar — but not until sometime next year. — The upcoming feature … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an enterprise LLM trained for just $700K by using synthetic data; a source says Writer is raising up to $200M at a $1.9B valuation — San Francisco-based AI startup Writer debuted a large artificial intelligence model on Wednesday to compete with enterprise offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.| Laura Dobberstein / The Register: |
OpenAI says Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's Chief Revenue Officer, to lead its international expansion — Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside — Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Ring unveils Ring Home Premium for $20 per month, with 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US, and changes its other plans — Amazon is revamping its subscription offerings for its Ring video doorbells and cameras. — A new service, called Ring Home Premium …
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