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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 …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| 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 … | 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
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| 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.
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LinkedIn: Saswat Panigrahi, Alex Roy, Brad Gillette, Elisa de Martel, and Suzanne Philion. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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 — WATCH NOW — Microsoft gave CEO Satya Nadella a pay raise for the 2024 fiscal year of more than $30 million.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Seattle, r/kindafunny, r/technology, and r/microsoft
| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday — A government-controlled wallet that had been drained of $20 million on Thursday received most of its funds back Friday, adding another layer of mystery …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the AI-powered search engine now serves 100M queries each week; in July, Perplexity said it was serving 250M per month — Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, says that the AI-powered search engine is now performing 100 million queries each week.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
More: The Information, The Verge, Perplexity, Variety, and WinBuzzer
Threads: @crumbler and @laurengoode
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free, the most verified individual human identities of any social network, to combat AI-fueled misinformation — LinkedIn has verified more than 55 million of its users, for free, in order to combat the spread of misinformation fueled by the rise … | 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
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, whose relationship soured after Qualcomm became one of the main opponents to Nvidia's attempted Arm acquisition — A licensing dispute clouds an important chip industry partnership — On paper, Arm and Qualcomm look like natural allies …
More: TechIssuesToday.com. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @olongulanh.bsky.social. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 forumsSponsor Posts
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Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM — Most CRM data problems don't look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run.
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