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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple updates the Mac mini with a smaller design, five USB-C ports, and up to 64GB of RAM, shipping from November 8 for $599+ with M4 and $1,399+ with M4 Pro — As part of the company's week of Mac-focused announcements, Apple has just introduced a smaller, yet even more powerful Mac Mini.
More: Apple, Apple on YouTube, Business Today, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ZDNET, Laptop Mag, TechRadar, Macworld, KnowTechie, Appleosophy, Gizmochina, Six Colors, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Pocket-lint, The Apple Post, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, Six Colors, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Cult of Mac, Wccftech, MacStories, CNBC, The Indian Express, Digital Photography Review, O'Grady's PowerPage, Stuff, Engadget, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, Wired, NewsBytes, TidBITS, and TechSpot
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Forums: r/mac, r/macmini, r/gadgets, and r/headphones
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts the M4 Pro: Thunderbolt 5, up to a 14-core CPU, up to a 20-core GPU with up to 2x an M4 GPU's power, a 16-core Neural Engine, and up to 64GB of RAM — The just-announced Mac mini includes the unveiling of the M4 Pro chip for the first time. The new upscale chip features 14-CPU cores …
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B, Search revenue up 12% to $49.39B, net income up 34% to $26.3B, and traffic acquisition costs up 9% to $13.72B — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 29, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GitHub plans to update Copilot to support Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI models, unveils AI web app building tool Spark, updates Copilot in VS Code, and more — GitHub is going multi-model for its Copilot code completion and programming tool. Developers will soon be able to choose models from Anthropic …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Elon Musk's PAC sends Republicans texts impersonating Kamala Harris that push policies Harris doesn't support, without disclaimers, and ups its social ad spend — An Elon Musk-funded super PAC has expanded an advertising campaign in which it is impersonating Democrats and targeting registered Republicans …
More: CNN, The Verge, CBS News, and DNyuz
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI has been working for months with Broadcom on its first in-house AI chip, for inference, built by TSMC, and has dropped its foundry plans for now — OpenAI is working with Broadcom (AVGO.O) and TSMC (2330.TW) to build its first in-house chip designed to support …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, Quartz, Benzinga, Motley Fool, WinBuzzer, and SamMobile. Forums: Hacker News
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant, an AI agent designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks, like sourcing candidates, to a select group of customers — LinkedIn, the social platform used by the working world to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop skills …
More: ZDNET, MediaPost, Fast Company, WinBuzzer, Techstrong.ai, and Business Insider
| Reuters: |
Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount — Pat Gelsinger took the reins as Intel (INTC.O) CEO three years ago with hopes of reviving the American industrial icon.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Snap says it will roll out its new “simple” Snapchat app in Q1 2025, ~10M users are testing it, but warns the engagement metrics are worse on iOS versus Android — In its third-quarter earnings report, Snap warned investors of “near term disruption” connected to the launch of the new Snapchat.| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: in a first, Apple is using an Indian factory to do the early manufacturing work for the base iPhone 17; the primary iPhone 17 Pro sites remain in China — When Apple CEO Tim Cook visited China last week, he pledged to government officials that the company would continue to increase …
More: 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, CNET, AppleInsider, BGR, and MacRumors
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Why Meta is well positioned to be AI's main beneficiary in the short, medium, and long term: generative AI, ads, infinite content, XR, “generative UI”, and more — Stratechery has benefited from a Meta cheat code since its inception: wait for investors to panic, the stock to drop … | Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
MetaMask crypto wallet maker Consensys is cutting 162 staff, or ~20% of its workforce, citing broader macroeconomic pressures and ongoing regulatory challenges — Cryptocurrency firm Consensys said on Tuesday it would cut 20% of its total workforce, citing broader macroeconomic pressures …
More: Consensys, Fortune, Decrypt, CNBC, NFTgators, CoinDesk, Protos, CryptoGlobe, Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, The Crypto Times, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, and Cryptopolitan. Forums: Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
An analysis of the top 100 US congressional X accounts: since July 2023, Republicans had nearly all the posts with 20M+ views and saw bigger gains in followers — A Washington Post analysis found that Republicans are posting more, getting followed more and going viral more now that the …
More: Business Insider and The Daily Caller
X: @pkafka, @shayan86, @neeratanden, @timobrien, @carlquintanilla, and @drewharwell. Forums: r/uspolitics
| Bloomberg: |
Shopify says it has lured hundreds of Salesforce clients, including Mattel and Casper; analysts say Shopify overtook Salesforce's e-commerce business in 2021 — The Canadian company, which has traditionally targeted mom-and-pops, is wooing larger retailers like Mattel.
Forums: Hacker News
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on “founder mode” and why it's not about micromanagement, obsessing over company structure, Airbnb's Co-Host Network, and more — The Airbnb cofounder discusses being ‘in the details’ and why traditional management is doing it wrong.
Threads: @reckless1280
| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $6.82B, vs. $6.71B est., Data Center revenue up 122% to $3.5B, and Q4 revenue forecast below est.; AMD drops 5% after hours — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) on Tuesday forecast fourth-quarter revenue just shy of estimates as supply chain constraints hamper … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit Q3: revenue up 68% YoY to $348.4M, vs. $312.8M est., DAUs up 47% YoY to 97.2M, vs. 96.5M est, ARPU of $3.58, vs. $3.24 est.; RDDT jumps 20%+ after hours — Reddit shares jumped 22% in extended trading Tuesday, topping $100 for the first time, after the social media company reported … | New York Times: |
Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured — Phones used by Jared Kushner and Eric Trump were among those that hackers sought access to as part of a counterintelligence effort carried …
More: Axios, BleepingComputer, and Washington Examiner
| Aanu Adeoye / Financial Times: |
Nigeria-based Moniepoint, which offers bank accounts, loans, and POS terminals, raised $110M led by DPI, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $55M — Company raises $110mn from investors including Google despite slowdown in fundraising for African start-ups
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
PayPal reports Q3 net revenue up 6% YoY to $7.9B, below est., total payments volume up 9% YoY to $422.6B, above $421.6B est., and projects Q4 revenue below est. — Revenue will climb in the low single-digit range in the final three months of the year, the company said Tuesday, while analysts had been predicting a 5.4% increase.
More: PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, CNBC, Reuters, Motley Fool, and Crypto Adventure
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Gartner says AI agents are “one of the most hyped topics in gen AI today”; Gartner survey: 75% of CEOs say AI will impact their industry, up from 21% in 2023 — Very quickly, the topic of AI agents has moved from ambiguous concepts to reality. Enterprises will soon be able …
More: Inc
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC has suspended shipments of 7nm chips to at least two chip developers over suspicions they were trying to circumvent US export controls on Huawei — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has suspended shipments to at least two chip developers over suspicions …
More: New York Times and The Register
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