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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: Canadian authorities arrested Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind hacks in June and July of up to 165 Snowflake customers including AT&T — - Connor Moucka taken into custody on provisional arrest warrant — Stolen logins used to access Snowflake customer accounts| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG's office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG — - Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations — Firm in early talks with California attorney general's office
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The second developer beta of iOS 18.2 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 …
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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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help NYT was “to provide technical infra support” and “not to replace journalists or engineers” amid push back — The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines …
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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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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 …
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A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election — A Pennsylvania judge declined to issue an emergency injunction Monday, allowing Elon Musk's super PAC to continue its cash giveaway to registered voters.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin using Llama AI — 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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku, but it is priced at $1 per million input tokens, up 4x from Claude 3.0 Haiku's price, and lacks image analysis features — Anthropic's newest AI model has arrived. But it's pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic's other models, it can't analyze images (yet).| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta is extending its ban on new political ads past Election Day in the US, “until later this week” — Meta extended its ban on new political ads on Facebook and Instagram past Election Day in the U.S. — The social media giant announced the political ads policy update on Monday …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix plans to delist nearly all of its interactive shows and films as of December 1 saying the tech “served its purpose”, after launching the format in 2017 — Netflix's “Interactive Specials” page lists 24 titles, but only four will remain: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch …
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