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October 22, 2023, 9:03 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple was caught flat-footed by the generative AI fever and is on course to spend ~$1B/year to add the tech across iOS 18, Siri, Music, and other apps — But the company is now preparing its response and plans to develop features for its full range of devices.

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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:

Gurman: Apple is planning a “Mac-centered product launch” around October's end and may release an updated 24-inch iMac; the current model launched in April 2021 — Apple is planning a Mac-focused product launch, likely including the announcement of a refreshed 24-inch iMac …

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, iMore, The Apple Post, Wccftech, AppleInsider, Forbes, NewsBytes, iClarified, and Engadget

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Beth Wang / Bloomberg Law:

A US jury finds Google guilty of gender bias and awards female executive Ulku Rowe $1M+, the first pay discrimination case against Google since 2018's walkouts — Google LLC treated female executive Ulku Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender and must pay her more than $1 million …

More: The Verge and Engadget

Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @skry@mastodon.social. X: @sarumbear. LinkedIn: Judah Richardson, MSME and Daniel Tunkelang

Forums: Hacker News and r/technology

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:

Crunchbase: Black US founders raised ~$39.7M, or 0.13% of all capital allocated to startups in Q3 2023, down from $212M in Q2, $352M in Q1, and $1B in Q3 2022 — Black founders raised 0.13% of all capital allocated to U.S. startups in Q3, according to Crunchbase. That's about $39.7 million out of $29.9 billion.

X: @johnhenrystyle, @poettpetty, and @dominicmadori

LinkedIn: Gary Stewart, Jailany Thiaw, Pedro Moore, and Johnnie Turnage

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:

How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region using wide-ranging online disinformation campaigns — This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments.

More: Financial Times. Threads: @renee.diresta, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life

X: @moonalice, @alenapopova, @lizzadwoskin, @catherinebelton, @lizzadwoskin, @gerritd, and @maxboot. Forums: Slashdot

Financial Times:

The Global Times: China opens a Foxconn investigation over tax and land use, inspecting Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, and Hubei sites; Foxconn plans to cooperate — Tax authorities said to have inspected a number of the Apple supplier's sites in provinces — China has launched an investigation …

More: Global Times, The Straits Times, Nikkei Asia, Associated Press, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Business Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, New York Times, and Global Times

X: @brianroemmele and @martijnrasser

LinkedIn: Wei-Chieh Wang and Martijn Rasser

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Paddy Cosgrave steps down as the CEO of Web Summit, which plans to appoint a new CEO; the event, set to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned — Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks …

More: CNN, Reuters, The Irish Times, Business Post, NPR, Axios, Deadline, Independent.ie, Agence France-Presse, Insider, The Hollywood Reporter, Politico, The Verge, Associated Press, TechCrunch, CNBC, The Information, RTÉ, and The Register

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LinkedIn: Daniel Tunkelang, Priel Manes, Ouriel Ohayon 🇮 …, Anat Paiss, Masha Shal Bar, and Barak Orbach

Richard Sandomir / New York Times:

Martin Goetz, who received the first US software patent, died on October 10 at 93; Goetz was awarded a patent for data-sorting software for mainframes in 1968 — “I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.

More: The Verge and International Business Times

Mastodon: @JustCodeCulture …. X: @_msw_. LinkedIn: Ruth Malloy and Daniel Tunkelang

Wall Street Journal:

Q&A with Fei-Fei Li and NTIA head Alan Davidson on regulating AI, US and China tech competition, the representation of women and PoC in AI discussions, and more — Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and the Commerce Department's Alan Davidson agree that artificial intelligence has the potential to do a lot of good.

LinkedIn: Fei-Fei Li and Rudolf Wagner

Rohan Goswami / CNBC:

Okta's stock closed down 11.57% on October 20 after the cybersecurity firm said a hacker used a stolen credential to access its support system and client files — - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.

More: Krebs on Security, The Register, Okta, BeyondTrust, SecurityWeek, The Cloudflare Blog, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Dark Reading, Bloomberg, PaymentSecurity.io, Cybersecurity Dive, MacSecurity.net, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, PCMag, CRN, and San Francisco Business Journal

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LinkedIn: Alex Lanstein, Archan Choudhury, Michael Surgen, Rob Griffin, Marc Maiffret, Matthew Rosenquist, Javed Ikbal, Sanjay Patel, Evan Schuman, Jay Meier, and Andrew Jaquith

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

A look at the Allen Institute for AI's plan to build “open” generative AI model OLMo; the nonprofit research center is led by former Apple ML leader Ali Farhadi — The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.

X: @stevelohr, @vore_jm, @dataengines, @allen_ai, @seangraf, @billhilf, @stevelohr, @uwcse, @metaviv, and @carysafoko

LinkedIn: Rachel Shepheard, Matt Fleischl, Steve Lohr, Ali Farhadi, and Ashley Boyd

Nikkei Asia:

Analysis: the iPhone 15 lineup features ~10% costlier components than the iPhone 14 models; iPhone 15 Pro Max costs rose to $558, up 12% from iPhone 14 Pro Max — Apple largely shoulders costs of zoom camera and 3-nm chip: Nikkei analysis — South Korea provided 29% of the latest iPhone series' parts …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, MacRumors, and XDA Developers

X: @thurrott and @sondesix. Forums: MacRumors Forums

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Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:

Warner Bros. Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus

Elsa Keslassy / Variety:

Netflix files an appeal to France's Council of State over the windowing rules that force the streamer to wait 15 months to access newly released films

Katcy Stephan / Variety:

The Academy adds an Oscar award for achievement in stunt design, beginning with the 100th Academy Awards in 2028 for films released in 2027

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Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:

Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform used by Boeing, the Obama Foundation, and others, raised a $37M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M

More: The SaaS News, Built In NYC, PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and Pulse 2.0

X: @hivebrite. LinkedIn: Bertrand Blais

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:

Research: seven influential but unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language Israel-Hamas war news on X from October 7 to 10

More: Center for an Informed Public and Android Headlines

Threads: @drewharwell. Mastodon: @uwcip@mastodon.ngo. Bluesky: @katestarbird.bsky.social, @mikecaulfield.bsky.social, @mimosaishere.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @carlbergstrom.com, and @mikecaulfield.bsky.social

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Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:

Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis

More: TechRadar, Mashable, The Decoder, and BGR

X: @kreshomir, @daniacostaai, @ivan_vasilev, @javilopen, and @drelidavid. LinkedIn: Stef Kuypers

Forums: r/artificial and Ars OpenForum

Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India:

Google expands Google Pay's consumer and merchant credit features in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more

More: The Keyword India, Inc42 Media, MediaNama, MediaNama, Analytics India Magazine, Inc42 Media, and MediaNama

LinkedIn: Shailesh Kulkarni, Abhilash Mohanty, and Satyendra Khare

Jay Peters / The Verge:

Twitch now lets creators simulcast across any live streaming service, with caveats, and adds doxxing and swatting to its Off-Service Conduct enforcement list

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