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The Verge:
Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship model, codenamed Orion, by December, rolling it out in phases starting with the company's trusted partners  —  OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned.  —  Unlike the release of OpenAI's last two models …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says “fake news out of control”  —  The Verge last night published an exclusive and seemingly well researched and sourced report (it's great in my opinion …
More: WinBuzzer.  X: @sama
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping  —  Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach  —  UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen …
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B  —  Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion funding round to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix, where it operates today.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Meta strikes a multi-year deal with Reuters to use its news content to provide real-time answers to user queries in Meta AI chatbot, a first for Meta  —  - Meta has backed away from news content in its platforms' main feeds amid regulatory scrutiny, but news content may prove harder …
Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times:
Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of Duty game to debut on Xbox Game Pass, in the biggest test of its gaming strategy since acquiring Activision  —  Tech giant hopes ‘Black Ops 6’ will boost Game Pass subscription service as Xbox sales decline  —  Microsoft is seeking to boost …
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the fight over valuable social media accounts when couples divorce; data: 44% of 27M paid US content creators say social media is their full-time job  —  When couples who make their living online split up, assessing the accounts' future value and divvying them up fairly is a drag
More: TechCrunch and Complex
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities  —  Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on AI slop, the company's partnerships with Google and OpenAI, content moderation during an election year, and more  —  What makes Reddit a gold mine for AI models, he says, is all of the human-led content on its variety of forums

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From Mediagazer

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules

Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a “rolling infomercial”

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Netflix sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining WBD, Paramount, and Disney, saying “forensic evidence” shows “unauthorized derivative works”

More News

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M a year ago; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses AI to organize, archive, or draft emails and handle scheduling and follow-ups, saying it is “coming soon”

Earlier Picks

MK Manoylov / The Block:
Filing: Microsoft puts an “assessment of investing in bitcoin” as a voting item for its December 10 shareholder meeting; its board recommends voting against it
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Source: TSMC's US division president said during a webinar that production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher than at similar facilities in Taiwan
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Meta debuts “quantized” versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google will add an AI info section in the image details view of Google Photos, for images edited with tools like Magic Editor and Magic Eraser
Bluesky:
Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says “we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning”; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude write and run JavaScript code, perform calculations, and analyze data from files, in preview
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Raspberry Pi unveils the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ in 13 and 26 TOPS versions in partnership with Hailo, after announcing branded SSDs, micro SD cards, and a bumper
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