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Apple Maps on the web adds support for Look Around, Apple's version of Google Street View — Apple in June introduced a beta version of Apple Maps on the web, allowing users of other platforms such as Windows PCs to access its map service directly from a web browser.
More: MacRumors, Engadget, Digital Trends, and The Verge
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a $249 compact AI development board that promises 67 TOPS, compared to 40 TOPS of the $499 last-gen kit — The Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit will be available later this month and comes with 8GB of RAM.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
CAA partners with YouTube to help CAA clients identify and remove AI-generated content that features their likeness, with a wider rollout planned in early 2025 — In what's being touted as the first partnership of its kind, CAA is collaborating with YouTube on a program promising to let actors … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce says it will hire 2,000 people to sell AI agent software, a month after saying it would hire 1,000 for the task and two years after laying off 7,000+ — Salesforce will hire 2,000 people to sell artificial intelligence software to clients, CEO Marc Benioff said on Tuesday … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds o1 to its API, but only for certain developers to start, announces new versions of GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini as part of its Realtime API, and more — OpenAI is bringing o1, its “reasoning” AI model, to its API — but only for certain developers, to start.| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Game emulator Delta adds an in-app link to pay outside of the App Store, via Patreon, likely the first US app to use Apple's External Purchase Link Entitlement — Delta, the MacStories Selects App of the Year, received an important update today that allows users of the game emulator to support …
More: 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and The Verge
Bluesky: @viticci.macstories.net. Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. Threads: @rileytestut, @altstoreio, @rileytestut, @rileytestut, and @rileytestut
X: @iryantldr and @altstoreio
| Wall Street Journal: |
Databricks is raising $10B from a16z, Thrive, and others at a $62B valuation, among the largest VC raises in history; docs show Databricks has $2.6B in revenue — As CEO of Databricks, Ali Ghodsi has performed a series of ‘strategic surgeries’ to make his company one of the fastest-growing startups in Silicon Valley
More: Databricks, TechCrunch, Business Insider, TechCrunch, CNBC, SFGATE, Proactive, Financial Times, Analytics India Magazine, Bloomberg, and Pulse 2.0
Bluesky: @ivanthek. X: @naveengrao, @databricks, @jefrankle, @jasonlk, @mattturck, @gergelyorosz, @tanayj, @dee_bosa, @batteryventures, and @shaig
LinkedIn: Carson Fullard, Joe Marini, Rick Schultz, Marina Block, Richard Wylie, and Adabara Abdullahi
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The US ITC says smartphones made by Lenovo's Motorola infringe on Ericsson's 5G patents, which could lead to an import ban; a final ruling is set for April 2025 — The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday that smartphones made by Lenovo's (0992.HK) Motorola Mobility infringe patents owned … | Ernie Smith / Tedium: |
Bluesky's use of domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don't offer enough social proof for the average person — An apparent extortion scheme involving famous writers and entrepreneurs lit up Bluesky the other night.
Bluesky: @awildsalem.com, @ernie.tedium.co, @hunterw, @bradhoward, @michaelmknight.com, @conorsen, @robpegoraro.com, @hyperplanes, @emilyliu.me, @conorsen, and @bobbylewis
Mastodon: @shellsharks@shellsharks … and @stevetex@mastodon.social
| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Grammarly plans to acquire collaborative tools startup Coda and bring on Coda co-founder and CEO Shishir Mehrotra as its CEO; Coda had a $1.4B valuation in 2021 — Coda co-founder and CEO Shishir Mehrotra will take over that position at Grammarly, according to statement from the two companies Tuesday.
More: Grammarly Blog, Benzinga, Grammarly, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, and TechCrunch
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Amid the AI boom, non-AI startups that raised a Series A 18 months ago are likely facing challenges in securing their Series B, even with decent revenue growth — Earlier this year, IVP general partner Tom Loverro, proclaimed that the post-pandemic downturn is over, and companies … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
SCOTUS rejects ISPs' challenge to a NY law requiring ISPs to offer $15/month or $20/month service to low-income clients, by not revisiting a lower court ruling — The Supreme Court yesterday rejected the broadband industry's challenge to a New York law that requires Internet providers …
More: TechSpot. Bluesky: @karlbode.com. Forums: r/technology, r/scotus, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's commerce minister says that Shein will operate in India purely as a tech partner, with Reliance Retail having full ownership and control of operations — Shein must surrender all data of Indian customers and control of its local operations to its partner, Reliance Retail …
More: Business Today, MEDIANAMA, Inc42 Media, The Verge, Comparitech, and YourStory.com
| Sam Bradley / Digiday: |
A look at Reddit's growth in sports fan communities; internal data: Reddit recorded a 35% YoY increase in engagement in 1,000+ sports-themed Subreddits in 2024 — This article was provided as an exclusive preview for Digiday+ members, who were able to access it early.
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Google introduces FACTS Grounding benchmark for evaluating the factuality of LLMs, and announces a leaderboard that ranks Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental on top — Our comprehensive benchmark and online leaderboard offer a much-needed measure of how accurately LLMs ground their responses … | Myles McCormick / Financial Times: |
NERC, overseen by FERC, warns soaring electricity demand from sources including data centers to power AI could strain US and Canadian grids, risking blackouts — Surging demand from tech sector could overwhelm generation capacity, report says — North America's electricity grid faces … | Financial Times: |
Shares of Kioxia rose 6%+ on its first day of trading in Tokyo, giving the chipmaker a ~$5.2B market cap; a group led by Bain had paid $18B for Kioxia in 2018 — Private equity group finally floats Japanese flash memory provider at a valuation far below what it paid in 2018
More: Reuters, Agence France-Presse, The Japan Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, and DigiTimes
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Shares in MobiKwik surged as much as 82% on their trading debut, after the Indian digital payments firm, which claims to have 161M users, raised $69M in its IPO — Shares in digital payments firm MobiKwik surged 82% to ₹507.5 ($6) on their first day of trading, as the Indian fintech company …
More: Times of India and Reuters
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, a maker of brain-computer interfaces, raised a $102M Series C led by General Equity Holdings at a ~$500M post-money valuation — Precision Neuroscience, maker of a ‘brain-computer interface’, has raised more than $100mn in latest investment round| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M for a Facebook security breach that affected ~29M users globally, ~3M in the EU and EEA, in September 2018 — Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach …
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X: @szilagyipal, @lewis_crofts, @dpcireland, @dpcireland, and @floorter
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
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A San Francisco jury convicts tech consultant Nima Momeni of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee on April 4, 2023 — Nima Momeni, 40, was convicted by a San Francisco jury in the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, a well-known tech executive.
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