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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has paused development of a lighter Vision Pro to focus on smart glasses, a no-display model for a 2027 release, and a model with a display later — Apple Inc. has hit pause on a planned overhaul to its Vision Pro headset to redirect resources toward a more urgent effort …
More: MacRumors, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, iClarified, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, The Verge, UploadVR, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Android Headlines, Cult of Mac, CNET, and iPhone in Canada
X: @samsheffer, @scobleizer, @markgurman, @munster_gene, @heaney555, and @patrickmoorhead. Bluesky: @hilli.tech
Forums: r/VisionPro, r/apple, r/virtualreality, r/virtualreality, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Sora, which is fun and simple to use, shows that OpenAI remains good at creating viral products, unlike Meta, whose Vibes video feed feels half-baked and obtuse — Another viral product hit for OpenAI, this time in video... It's been a long time since I've been this sucked into an app.
More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Sources, MarketWatch, CaseyNeistat on YouTube, Mashable, Reuters, Plagiarism Today, Futurism, Stratechery, MacRumors, Engadget, and Axios
Threads: @katienotopoulos, @szed_ar, @mgsiegler, @mwi.invest, and @alexheath
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
OpenAI's Sora 2 openly features copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario — Within moments of opening OpenAI's new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models, in private beta with support for Qwen and Llama — Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI.
More: Thinking Machines Lab, Anyscale, SiliconANGLE, The Information, and Implicator.ai
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta says it will use users' AI chatbot conversations to help personalize ads and content, starting on December 16, but not in the UK, South Korea, or the EU — While users won't be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded
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Bluesky: @stardustbluepr.com, @quillmatiq.com, @jmberger.com, @justinhendrix, @jonkeegan.com, @mayamedia, @jackcarterbenjamin, and @capemaydave. Instagram: Adam Mosseri
Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Rohan Goswami / Semafor: |
Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a foundry customer; Intel lacks the technology to produce AMD's most advanced chips; INTC closes up 7.12% — THE SCOOP — Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a customer at Intel's factories, in what would be another vote …
More: MarketWatch, DigiTimes, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Techstrong IT, Motley Fool, Investor's Business Daily, and Benzinga
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella hands marketing and operations oversight to Judson Althoff, naming him CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, to focus more on technical work — Microsoft Corp. is giving its longtime sales chief oversight of marketing and operations in a reorganization designed to free …
More: Microsoft, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, MediaPost, The Register, CNBC, Computerworld, MarketWatch, Business Insider, GeekWire, Thurrott, and The Information
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @edzitron.com, @taumuyi, and @mattmday
Forums: r/microsoft, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK Home Office issued an order to Apple in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only UK users — Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption
More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Guardian, The Joy of Tech, The Verge, BBC, 9to5Mac, iDrop News, iClarified, Reclaim The Net, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Telegraph, Michael Tsai, and Business Standard
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft launches a $19.99/month Microsoft 365 Premium subscription, which bundles Copilot Pro with Microsoft 365 Family for six users and 6TB of cloud storage — Microsoft said Wednesday that it will stop promoting a consumer subscription for artificial intelligence services and introduced … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI signs with Samsung and SK Hynix to supply chips and other gear to Stargate; Samsung and SK Hynix say demand from OpenAI could reach 900K wafers per month — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. shares rose to their highest in years after South Korea's largest companies forged initial agreements …
More: Tom's Hardware, OpenAI, CNBC, Reuters, Data Center Knowledge, The Business Times, SammyGuru, UPI, Taipei Times, and Livemint. Bluesky: @sungkim
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 42M+ DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B+ queries each month — Brave announced today that it now has over 100 million active users across desktop and mobile worldwide.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Google Assistant on smart speakers, with new voices and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app — Gemini for Home does more than just replace Google Assistant on smart speakers and displays. Featuring a rebuilt Home architecture …
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, Tech With Brett on YouTube, Android Police, Wallpaper*, SiliconANGLE, Droid Life, Android Authority, Jason Howell's Newsletter, Washington Post, Digital Trends, BonTech Labs, Chrome Unboxed, The Economic Times, Ars Technica, and How-To Geek
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Forums: r/Android, r/Nest, and r/googlehome
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
More: Gizmodo, The Keyword, Android Headlines, Droid Life, Chrome Unboxed, Phandroid, Wired, and The Verge
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce launches Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise vibe-coding tool and IDE featuring Vibe Codey, built on a fork from Cline's open source AI coding agent — Enterprise giant Salesforce is looking to ride the vibe-coding wave — where developers describe what they want in natural language …
More: Salesforce Developers, Techstrong.ai, The New Stack, and CIO Dive
Bluesky: @techcrunch.com and @prietschka
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Amazon revamps Luna “from the ground up” with a new UI and AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers — Amazon is revamping its cloud-gaming service Luna to offer a wide variety of top-tier games, including “Hogwarts Legacy” …
More: Amazon Games, Amazon Luna on YouTube, The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, GeekWire, IGN, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Kotaku, GameSpot, Cord Cutters News, PCMag, and TalkAndroid.com
X: @amazonluna. LinkedIn: Scott Humphries, Chris Leggett, Jeffrey Gattis, and Roisin Doyle. Bluesky: @crecente. Forums: r/Games
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft raises its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price from $19.99/month to $29.99/month, rebrands Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard plans, and more — Microsoft is also adding PC games and cloud access to its new Xbox Game Pass Essential and Premium plans.
More: Xbox Wire, Windows Central, The Shortcut, Eurogamer.net, Polygon, Gizmodo, Neowin, Tom's Guide, TheGamer, Mashable, Pure Xbox, Livemint, Rogue, Forbes Middle East, GameSpot, Tom's Hardware, Game Developer, NDTV Profit, PCWorld, PlayStation LifeStyle, Pocket-lint, PCMag, Windows Central, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Destructoid, XboxEra, Screen Rant, Video Games Chronicle, The Game Business, Bloomberg, and The Verge
X: @grummz, @thencsmaster, @jezcorden, and @grummz
Bluesky: @janochoa, @klobrille, @fransbouma.com, @adrianmorales85, @hitpoints, @tomwarren.co.uk, @vicious696, @nickstatt, @sjbsmama, and @self.agency. Mastodon: @Knoebel@mastodon.social
| Reuters: |
Sources: Yahoo nears a deal to sell AOL to Italian app developer Bending Spoons for ~$1.4B; AOL.com's traffic has recently grown 20% YoY among users aged 25-54 — - Bending Spoons in advanced talks to buy AOL from Yahoo, sources say — The Italian unicorn has been on an acquisition spree, may IPO
Bluesky: @sfpodge and @dfeldman.org
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
T-Mobile expands its Starlink satellite service to support apps such as WhatsApp, Google Maps, and X, after launching it in July with basic features like SMS — T-Mobile (TMUS.O) said on Wednesday its satellite-to-cell network now supports widely used apps, including WhatsApp, Google Maps and X …
More: PhoneArena, Temporal, MacRumors, BGR, Droid Life, T-Mobile, 9to5Google, How-To Geek, Engadget, and Android Authority
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: European prosecutors are investigating whether Northern Data illegally claimed a tax break on ~€500M worth of GPUs it used for crypto mining — A criminal investigation that led to raids of Northern Data AG's offices last week is focused on whether the company illegally claimed … | Financial Times: |
Sources: China curbs the use of European suppliers Nokia and Ericsson in its telecoms networks, requiring lengthy national security reviews for their contracts — Beijing's national security drive hits European groups even as Huawei maintains its business on the continent| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Simple, an AI-powered health coaching app to help users lose weight, raised a $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures — Mike Prytkov said he knows what it's like to let stress take over one's life. — While building his first company, he said he worked long hours and gained weight.| Matt Durot / Forbes: |
Elon Musk became the first person with a net worth of $500B after Tesla shares climbed on October 1; Musk is $150B ahead of runner-up Larry Ellison — Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire. — Elon Musk achieved yet another major milestone Wednesday …
More: Benzinga, BBC, Reuters, Reuters, Axios, Sydney Morning Herald, Fox Business, Austin American-Statesman, New York Post, 9News, and Times Now. X: @cb_doge
| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Apple files a motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit, which alleges that Apple's ChatGPT integration stifles competition, saying it plans to integrate other chatbots — Apple Inc. says it did nothing wrong in choosing to partner with OpenAI — rather than Elon Musk's xAI — when it added generative …
More: Ars Technica, Reuters, BGR, iPhone in Canada, Mashable, SFist, Android Headlines, PCWorld, Moneycontrol, The Information, and Tech in Asia
| Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: |
Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a valuation of €400M in a 2021 funding round — Einride AB raised about $100 million in funds in a round that values the Swedish driverless truck startup at more than $1 billion … | Reuters: |
Sources: Qualcomm has adopted Arm's v9 architecture for its new generation of PC and phone chips, joining rivals like MediaTek and, most analysts believe, Apple — - Qualcomm adopts Arm's v9 architecture, with features for AI performance — Move follows legal battle between Qualcomm and Arm
More: Computerworld, Motley Fool, RCR Wireless News, Android Headlines, and BonTech Labs
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