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Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: 10 mins ago

ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models

Bloomberg: 15 mins ago

Sources: Apple plans to raise ~$7B from its first investment-grade bond offering in more than a year to fund share buybacks, dividends, and capital expenditures

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: 35 mins ago

Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing

Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: 65 mins ago

The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touching it is not very ergonomic and lack of Apple Pencil support is weird

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: 1½ hours ago

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: 2½ hours ago

United Airlines is rolling out a custom native Spotify seatback app across its fleet, letting users log into their accounts, powered by Starlink's Wi-Fi

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: at Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:

Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:

Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro

OpenAI:

OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs

Emma Roth / The Verge:

OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and its API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from a prompt or a photo

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:

Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60 per 1M output tokens

New York Times:

Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and “rationalism”, and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes employee fears of layoffs

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:

Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers present personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are canceling their subscriptions

David Keohane / Financial Times:

Sources: China told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; the Swiss-Swedish company employs ~12,700 in China

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM

Financial Times:

Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models

Charles Rollet / Business Insider:

Source: Meta has decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest, Wonder Full, was codenamed Watermelon

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