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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia and Intel announce a partnership to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel stock at $23.28 per share; INTC jumps 20%+ — 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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LinkedIn: Shrirang Yardi and Xiang Zhang
Threads: @szed_ar, @rpn, @documentingmeta, @wongmjane, @crumbler, @crumbler, and @crumbler. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: the small display adds new functionality, real-time translation are useful, and the Neural Band seems like the ideal input method — The newly announced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and the ‘Neural Band’ input device that comes with them, are still far from proper augmented reality.| 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...
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, letting creators use AI prompts to build worlds, powered by its new “built from scratch” virtual engine — The Horizon Engine powers ‘better graphics’ for Meta's Horizon Worlds social platform.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China drops 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 …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
A US House committee asks the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at an October 8 hearing on the “radicalization of online forum users” — A U.S. House committee on Wednesday asked the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Amazon-owned Twitch (AMZN.O) and Reddit (RDDT.N) …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how they were fixed — This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and r/ClaudeAI
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google says Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition, solving 10 of 12 problems — Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google's AI can clean up your text messages …
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| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
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| Peter Flanagan / The Irish Times: |
Niamh Sweeney, Facebook's former head of public policy in Ireland, is appointed as Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner, starting 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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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Pangea, which protects companies from prompt injection attacks by monitoring AI 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, FinTech Global, SiliconANGLE, Cyber Daily, Forbes, SecurityWeek, Forbes, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Oliver Friedrichs
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both 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.
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| 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| Bloomberg: |
Huawei unveils two new SuperPoD products, the Atlas 950 and Atlas 960, the latter linking up to 15,488 Ascend AI chips, as it seeks to challenge Nvidia — Huawei Technologies Co. unveiled new technology from memory chips to AI accelerators Thursday, outlining publicly for the first time its multiyear plan …
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| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in “scheming”, or secretly pursuing undesirable goals, reducing “covert actions” ~30X — ZDNET's key takeaways — Several frontier AI models show signs of scheming.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has held talks with Fox Corp. and others about licensing their articles for use in its AI tools, after previously reducing its focus on news — The overtures mark a shift in the Facebook parent's relationships with news outlets and other publishers| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600+ people, including limited partners — Venture capital firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the firm's limited partners, that their personal information …
More: The Register, Infosecurity, Insight Partners, and SecurityWeek
| Bloomberg: |
Shein launches Xcelerator, a service granting fashion brands access to its fast-fashion manufacturing network in China — Shein Group Ltd. has begun offering other fashion brands access to its apparel manufacturing network in China as a service, people familiar with the matter said … | Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Scientists detail Delphi-2M, a generative AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to 1,000+ diseases decades from now — European scientists have created system trained on large-scale health records — European scientists have developed …
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X: @joe_pickrell, @erictopol, @godfreychurch, and @embl. LinkedIn: Mireille Hildebrandt. Bluesky: @magdalenaskipper
| Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters: |
Deliveroo CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the deal is expected to close by October 2 — British food delivery firm Deliveroo (ROO.L) said on Thursday founder and CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by U.S. rival DoorDash takes effect.
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