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October 23, 2024, 10:15 AM
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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies  —  - Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022  — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg:
Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health  —  - Charges against Tigran Gambaryan dropped on health grounds  — Gambaryan detained in February as Nigeria took aim at Binance
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Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production since early summer, and could stop making the existing version entirely by the end of 2024  —  Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset since the early summer and could stop making …
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with Craig Federighi on the launch of Apple Intelligence features like notification summaries in iOS 18.1, Siri, Apple's AI strategy, and more  —  Our columnist reviews the first wave of AI features coming to iPhones with iOS 18.1, and asks Apple's software chief why so much is still missing
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out enhanced scam detection to Google Messages beta users and previews other safety features, like an option to blur images that may contain nudity  —  The latest round of new features for Google Messages is focused on safety, like “Sensitive Content Warnings” for images that contain nudity.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation  —  Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Sources: Apple is working on a new App Store-like app dedicated to games that will integrate with the user's Game Center profile  —  It's been a month since Apple released iOS 18 to the public, but the company is already working on future software updates.  Interestingly, as Apple …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP  —  This article was produced with support from the Capitol Forum.  —  On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe.
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
China says Tim Cook said Apple would “continue to grow its investments in China” in a meeting with its top tech official, during his second visit in 2024  —  - Apple supports millions of jobs, many suppliers in China  — China has tightened control over flow of data in recent years
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Sources: TechInsights took apart at least one of Huawei's latest AI chips and found an Ascend 910B made by TSMC, which says it stopped Huawei shipments in 2020
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps  —  “I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
Runway:
Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated characters with realistic facial expressions using video and voice recordings as inputs  —  Act-One can create compelling animations using video and voice performances as inputs.  It represents a significant step forward …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features  —  The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death.  —  THE SHIFT
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
In its first annual report, Walmart's PhonePe reports FY 2024 revenue grew 74% YoY to ~$602M, net losses down 28% YoY to ~$237M, and 200M MAUs as of March 2024  —  - PhonePe released its first detailed annual report on Monday  — The fintech saw its loss shrink 28% to about 20 billion rupees
Nikkei Asia:
Huawei launches HarmonyOS 5.0 and says 1B+ devices run on HarmonyOS including smartphones, PCs, and cars, and the OS has 15K+ apps, up 10x from earlier in 2024  —  TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies' Harmony operating system is making inroads overseas, helped by partnerships with players …

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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

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David Prosser / Forbes:
Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source code vulnerabilities, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract Ventures, taking its total funding to $65M
Sara Fischer / Axios:
OpenAI and Microsoft announce a $10M AI local news project operated by the Lenfest Institute, starting with five US metro news organizations
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Qualcomm partners with Google to help automakers develop AI voice assistants and unveils two new chips to power dashboards and self-driving features
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Penguin Random House, UMG, and SAG-AFTRA join 11.5K+ signatories of an open letter saying the “unlicensed use of creative works” to train AI must not be allowed
Anthropic:
Anthropic claims that its new Sonnet 3.5 model scores 49% on SWE-bench Verified, up from 33.4% and “higher than all” public models, and debuts Claude 3.5 Haiku
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system
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