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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia and Intel partner to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel's stock at $23.28 per share, a ~5% stake; INTC jumps 25%+ — Cats and Dogs, living together! — In a surprising announcement that finds two long-time rivals working together …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30 — Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where Meta announced Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with and without a display, new Meta Oakley glasses, Horizon updates, and more — Expect a lot of smart glasses and AI talk this year, with a dash of the metaverse and VR. — Who's excited for smart glasses?
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), doubling the battery life to 8 hours and with 3K Ultra HD video capture for up to three minutes, available now for $329+ — The Gen 2 glasses have up to eight hours of continuous battery on a single charge, up from four on the previous edition.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils the Oakley Meta Vanguard, with a 12MP wide-angle camera, Garmin and Strava, and immersive audio, preorder now and shipping from October 21 for $499 — At Meta Connect 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled its new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses that are geared toward runners, cyclists, and other athletes.
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| Meta on YouTube: |
A recording of Meta Connect 2025 — Join Mark Zuckerberg for the Opening Keynote of Meta Connect 2025—our annual conference where we showcase the future of human connection and the technology t...
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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
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| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
Inside Apple's Audio Lab, where the company develops features like spatial audio and uses tuning studios as reference points for AirPods Pro and other products — Inside Apple Audio Labs — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Peter Flanagan / The Irish Times: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission appoints Niamh Sweeney, Facebook's former head of public policy in Ireland, as its new commissioner, starting on October 13 — Niamh Sweeney to take up role in October — Former tech industry lobbyist Niamh Sweeney has been named to the Data Protection Commission …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, which lets creators use AI prompts to make VR worlds, powered by its “built from scratch” Horizon Engine — The Horizon Engine powers ‘better graphics’ for Meta's Horizon Worlds social platform.
More: UploadVR, XR Today, Road to VR, Android Central, and Tom's Guide
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China drops its antitrust probe into Google, opened in February over Android dominance and its impact on Chinese phonemakers, amid US-China trade talks — Beijing regulator's investigation had centred Android operating system's dominance — China is dropping an antitrust probe into Google … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how it fixed them — This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and r/artificial
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Pangea, which protects companies from prompt injection attacks by monitoring AI's interactions with users and software, for ~$260M — Cyber vendor adds to detection and response capabilities as AI security threats are on the rise
More: CrowdStrike, TechRadar, Forbes, SecurityWeek, Forbes, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Oliver Friedrichs
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country in terms of Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on the App Store and Google Play in India — Google's Nano Banana image-generation model, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, has fueled global momentum for the Gemini app since launching last month.
More: Wired and NDTV Profit
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei unveils the Atlas 950 SuperPoD with 8,192 Ascend NPUs and the Atlas 960 SuperPoD with 15,488 Ascend NPUs, both with Huawei's new HBM, to challenge Nvidia — Huawei Technologies Co. unveiled new technology from memory chips to AI accelerators Thursday, outlining publicly … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: several xAI execs left after clashing with two of Musk's closest advisers over concerns about unrealistic financial projections and xAI's management — Some who left say they were concerned about the artificial intelligence company's financial projections| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has held discussions with Axel Springer, Fox Corp., News Corp, and others in recent months about licensing their articles for use in its AI tools — The overtures mark a shift in the Facebook parent's relationships with news outlets and other publishers
More: PYMNTS.com, MarketWatch, New York Post, Reuters, NewsMax.com, WinBuzzer, and TipRanks Financial
| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in “scheming”, or secretly pursuing some other agenda, reducing “covert actions” ~30X — ZDNET's key takeaways — Several frontier AI models show signs of scheming.
More: OpenAI, Apollo Research, and Datamation
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 50% of US adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life; 53% say AI will harm people's ability to think creatively — Americans see a role for AI in some areas of society but want more control over its use. About half say it'll erode creative thinking
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
In a peer-reviewed Nature article update, DeepSeek says it spent $294K on training its reasoning-focused R1 model and used 512 Nvidia H800 chips for 80 hours — Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for U.S. rivals … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600+ people, including its limited partners — Venture capital firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the firm's limited partners …
More: TechRadar, The Register, Insight Partners, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity, and BleepingComputer
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.5B+ Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens; a source says the numbers are accurate — The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Q&A with CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela on Runway's “world models” breakthrough, how it differs from typical AI video generation, the Lionsgate partnership, and more — Co-founder of the first AI platform to partner with a Hollywood studio on video generation talks … | Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of bots and large-scale resale operations — The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use …
More: New York Post, Reuters, Fox Business, CNBC, MarketWatch, and NewsMax.com. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
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