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Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta — In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research …
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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 — Today, we're announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku.
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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up — The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
iPad mini (2024) review: fast A17 Pro chip, delightful size, and Pencil Pro support, but less powerful than other iPads, outdated Touch ID and camera placement — Apple's smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won't feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm” — Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
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| 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 …
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| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs — Chipmaker reported having received order for processor resembling that of Chinese company Huawei
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| 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 — - Ascend 910B is made with TSMC's 7-nm process, per TechInsights — The chip was first spotted in servers in China in 2022
More: Reuters
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions — America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data.
More: Business Insider and New Republic
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Source: Polymarket is making new checks to verify that users, especially big spenders, are not US-based; Fredi9999 has bet $18M+ on Republican outcomes so far — - US users are not supposed to be trading on Polymarket — The predictions market has seen a surge in big pro-Trump bets
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29 — Following a string of controversies stemming from technical hiccups and licensing changes, AI startup Stability AI has announced …
More: Stability AI, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Decoder, AI News, and WinBuzzer. Forums: r/StableDiffusion
| 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 — Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals' work to train AI models| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TollBit, which recently launched a content monetization marketplace for publishers and AI companies, raised a $24M Series A led by Lightspeed Ventures — - “As AI agents become more accessible and proliferate at an exponential rate, publishers and digital content owners need a way to monetize content … | 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 — WhatsApp announced today a new feature that will allow users to save contacts within the app.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI hires Scott Schools, most recently the chief ethics and compliance officer at Uber, as its chief compliance officer — - Scott Schools previously worked in the US Justice Department — AI startup faces evolving global regulatory landscape
More: The Hill, TechCrunch, New York Times, and The Verge
| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Asana launches AI Studio in early access, a no-code tool for designing AI agents that can be integrated into teams' existing workflows — Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise across workplaces and industries. From performing admin tasks in meetings to helping with sales calls …
More: HackerNoon, Asana, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut — Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/DisneyPlus, and MacRumors Forums
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts — Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
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