11:00 PM • | Financial Times: French billionaire Xavier Niel plans to invest €200M in AI projects, including an Nvidia cloud supercomputer, a research lab in Paris, and an annual conference |
10:25 PM • | The Information: Sources: Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been discussing building a new AI hardware device, and Masayoshi Son has been involved in some aspects of the conversation |
8:40 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in negotiations to acquire Tel Aviv-based startups Dig Security for $300M to $400M and Talon Cyber Security for $600M to $700M |
8:05 PM • | Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: Sony opens an investigation after ransomware group “Ransomed.vc” claimed to have breached the company's systems and threatened to sell or post the stolen data |
6:10 PM • | Bloomberg: The federal judge overseeing US et al v. Google says documents used during the trial can be posted online at the end of each day, resolving a weeklong dispute |
5:35 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft starts rolling out a Windows 11 update that adds the new Windows Copilot and, over the coming months, AI updates to Paint, Snipping Tool, and Photos |
5:25 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: the WGA and AMPTP's deal lets studios train AI models on writers' work while writers would be compensated for work on scripts even if AI tools are used |
4:40 PM • | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: MoneyGram plans to launch a non-custodial wallet in Q1 2024, letting users move funds between fiat and USDC, limited to ~40 countries with a digital KYC process |
4:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Over a dozen senior executives left Binance over the past three months; Kaiko: Binance now handles ~50% of all direct crypto trades, vs. ~70% in January 2023 |
4:05 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: An OpenAI paper on GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, reveals some of the model's biases, flaws, and potential malicious use cases, and the company's safeguards |
3:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is pitching investors on a possible share sale that would value the AI startup at between $80B and $90B, almost triple its level earlier in 2023 |
3:10 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers discover a cross-origin attack exploiting how modern GPUs compress images to let a malicious website in Chrome or Edge read pixels from another site |
3:00 PM • | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announces plans to reinstate net neutrality, seeking to “largely return to the successful rules the Commission adopted in 2015” |
2:35 PM • | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Review of macOS 14 Sonoma: a better stab at usable widgets, an improved password manager, promising gaming enhancements, but fewer new features for Intel Macs |
2:10 PM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Eddie Cue's US v. Google testimony: Cue said Google was the only “valid” search choice for a deal; the DOJ noted Apple railed against Google's privacy policies |
1:20 PM • | Khari Johnson / Wired: Skydio debuts X10, an autonomous drone capable of mitigating high-speed police chases by flying at 45 mph and tracking people in the dark using infrared sensors |
1:00 PM • | New York Times: Over half of the testimony in the Google antitrust trial so far has been given behind closed doors thanks to arguments from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others |
12:47 PM • | CNBC: The FTC and 17 US states sue Amazon for allegedly using monopoly power to raise its prices, force sellers to pay fulfillment and ad fees, and harm its rivals |
12:25 PM • | Bloomberg: The CIA is planning to roll out a ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to open-source intelligence |
12:07 PM • | Wall Street Journal: FTC Sues Amazon, Alleging Illegal Online-Marketplace Monopoly |
12:00 PM • | Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google Messages has been installed 5B+ times, after crossing 1B installations in May 2020 and becoming the default messaging app on most new Android devices |
11:20 AM • | Aaron Holmes / The Information: Sources: Microsoft is developing “distilled”, smaller AI models for features like Bing Chat that cost less to operate and mimic OpenAI's more advanced models |
10:05 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google plans to shut down Google Podcasts “later in 2024”, moving its streaming listeners to YouTube Music, which will support US podcasts and RSS feeds by 2024 |
9:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Series, which offers ERP-like tools, including for managing payroll and benefits, contract lifecycles, and treasuries, raised $25M across a Series A and a seed |
8:55 AM • | Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Email: Chase bans crypto-linked payments for UK clients starting on October 16 as “fraudsters are increasingly using crypto assets to steal large sums of money” |
8:30 AM • | Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian: EU analysis: Twitter had the highest disinformation rate in H1 2023, followed by Facebook; TikTok closed ~6M fake accounts; YouTube closed 400+ channels |
7:40 AM • | Alexandra Garfinkle / Yahoo Finance: Q&A with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on generative AI making developers more efficient and shortening software development cycles, managing AI's risks, and more |
7:10 AM • | Bloomberg: The US SEC objects to Coinbase's role in Celsius' plan to emerge from bankruptcy, saying the proposal goes “far beyond the services of a distribution agent” |
7:00 AM • | Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters: Sources: French authorities received and are reviewing an iPhone 12 software update from Apple that is meant to defuse a row over the device's radiation levels |
6:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: San Diego-based edge AI chipmaker Kneron raised a $49M Series B extension, after raising a $48M Series B in October 2022, bringing its total funding to $190M |
4:15 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify launches Jam, a feature that lets up to 32 people curate a playlist together; only Premium subscribers can create Jams, but all users can contribute |
2:40 AM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: DJI Mini 4 Pro review: lightweight, improved obstacle avoidance, great ActiveTrack 360 subject tracking, 4K at 60fps, but expensive at $760+ and not crashproof |
12:20 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Valve announces SteamVR 2.0 in beta, with an updated keyboard, Steam Chat and Voice Chat integration, and an improved Store, after teasing the project in 2019 |