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Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T — - Connor Moucka taken into custody on provisional arrest warrant — Stolen logins used to access Snowflake customer accounts
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 18.2's second developer beta shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings — With the second beta of iOS 18.2 that's available for developers today, Apple has further fleshed out the ChatGPT integration that's available with Siri.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market — - Company's hardware division is researching idea with employees — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category
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Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG's office to become a for-profit company; a letter says OpenAI also discussed it with Delaware's AG — - Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations — Firm in early talks with California attorney general's office
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help the NYT was “to provide technical infra support” and “not to replace journalists or engineers” — The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US — On Monday, Amazon announced X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, touting the generative-AI-based feature as …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware — Meta's former head of augmented reality glasses announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn.
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Robinhood, Kraken, and others unveil the Global Dollar Network to accelerate stablecoin usage and launch USDG, a Paxos-issued stablecoin pegged to the US dollar — A consortium of financial technology and cryptocurrency companies including Robinhood (HOOD.O), Kraken and Galaxy Digital … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, and Lockheed Martin using Llama — In an effort to combat the perception that its “open” AI is aiding foreign adversaries, Meta today said that it's making …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta informs ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close — Meta extended its ban on new political ads on Facebook and Instagram past Election Day in the U.S. — The social media giant announced …
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| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
AppGrowing: in Q3, Moonshot, Zhipu, ByteDance, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI companies spent ~$70.2M to promote their AI chatbots, as the market gets crowded — Tech giants such as Alibaba and ByteDance along with start-ups spent US$70.2 million in the third quarter to promote generative AI products, report finds| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M — Nintendo on Tuesday cut forecast for Switch sales for its fiscal year ending March 2025 as demand wanes for its ageing console.Sponsor Posts
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