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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins to custom GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more — In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple last week paused developing iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and plans to resume work this week — - Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
More: 9to5Mac, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, Macworld, Tom's Guide, Forbes, Neowin, MacRumors, Supercharged, Trusted Reviews, BGR, and AppleInsider
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue — Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Tech Coalition, which includes Discord, Google, Meta, Roblox, Snap, and Amazon, unveil Lantern to share “signals” about child sexual exploitation and abuse — The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation …
More: Tech Coalition, The Messenger, Meta, The Verge, and Neowin
LinkedIn: Vincent Courson, Nicola Mendelsohn Cbe, and Lauren Tharp
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
IBM debuts a $500M enterprise AI venture fund to invest in startups across all stages, with no set target of annual investments or capital deployment timeline — IBM is dedicating $500 million to invest in generative AI startups focused on business customers.
More: IBM, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, CIO Dive, CryptoSlate, The Information, AIN.Capital, WRAL TechWire, and CoinStats
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Roger Premo, William, Patrick Moorhead, Dylan Gochie-Amaro, and Sebastian Krause
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A recap of day one of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial; opening statements, Epic Games Store GM Steve Allison revealing the store isn't profitable, and more — The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
More: The Verge, The Verge, The Verge, CNBC, MediaPost, TweakTown, Dot Esports, GamesIndustry.biz, Games, Pocket Gamer.biz, New York Post, Verdict, Technowize, WRAL TechWire, Silicon UK, BBC, CoinStats, The Verge, Bloomberg, Benzinga, ReadWrite, Courthouse News Service, Anadolu Ajansı …, The Verge, Stock Market News, The Japan Times, Times Colonist, The Verge, TechCrunch, UPI, and New York Times
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company's 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its bet to reclaim chipmaking leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company's … | Francesco Guarascio / Reuters: |
More: Silicon Valley Business …, TechSpot, TechRadar, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, and Tech in Asia. LinkedIn: Jonas Sundqvist
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google pushes a Pixel update with security fixes and to address an Android 14 storage bug that locked some owners who use multiple profiles out of their devices — Google's “solution” can't do anything for bootlooping devices. — It's the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch.
More: Android Open Source Project, Tom's Guide, T3, HotHardware, TechRadar, Android Authority, The Verge, PhoneArena, and Android Police
Forums: r/Android and Ars OpenForum
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio's future under Microsoft, wrestling over releasing a game without live components, and more — Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft's huge acquisition …
More: Bloomberg, PC Gamer, Video Games Chronicle, Gamereactor UK, Metro.co.uk, WinBuzzer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, Dexerto, VG Charts, The Loadout, IGN on YouTube, TheGamer, Video Games Chronicle, and Gameranx
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| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google Photos' Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info — - Code within the latest version of Google Photos includes specific error messages that highlight the edits that Magic Editor will refuse to do.| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink: neuroscientists worry over hype given the level of coverage, but its FDA-approved trial is exciting and its tech is potentially miraculous — Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people's heads—and not just figuratively. — Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career.| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
The CFPB proposes new powers to oversee companies that offer digital wallets and payment apps facilitating 5M+ transactions per year, or currently ~17 companies — Proposal would subject tech companies such as Apple and Google to new rules — The top US consumer finance regulator is seeking …
More: Consumer Financial …, PYMNTS.com, iTnews, Bloomberg, CoinStats, Finextra, New York Times, and Stock Market News
| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Toast reports Q3 revenue up 37% YoY to $1.03B, matching estimates, and lowers the upper range of its FY 2023 revenue forecast; TOST drops 18%+ — Profit outlook moves higher, but one analyst is concerned about the new top-line forecast — Shares of Toast Inc. were getting singed …
More: Zacks Investment Research and Toast
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds a no-cost Azure AI option for Nvidia GPU clusters to its Startups Founders Hub, in preview first for YC startups and coming later to M12 startups — In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: USDC stablecoin issuer Circle is considering an IPO early in 2024; Circle was valued at $9B when it tried to go public via SPAC in 2022 — - Backers include Goldman Sachs, General Catalyst and BlackRock — Circle had tried to go public via blank-check deal in 2022
More: Crypto Briefing and Fortune
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Docs: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and had trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios, prior to its California permitting crisis — In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
More: Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, Robotics & Automation News, Forbes, The Verge, and CNBC
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LinkedIn: Matthew Clarke, Will Handzel, and Noah Gift
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| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
More: The Register, TechCrunch, Fortune, San Francisco Business Times, Engadget, CNBC, Digital Trends, and Reuters. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung launches a $99 S Pen Creator Edition in the US, offering a larger, Apple Pencil-like design while lacking many S Pen smart features, like Air Commands — The S Pen has been a key selling point of many of Samsung's products over the years, and the company is now debuting a …
More: The Verge, Android Police, Android Central, How-To Geek, Mashable, ZDNet, Android Authority, KnowTechie, SamInsider, T3, and PhoneArena
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Crunchyroll debuts Game Vault, offering five mobile games for free to subscribers of its two higher-cost tiers, and promises a “new wave of titles coming soon” — Crunchyroll is making a bigger push into games. … The new feature is called the Crunchyroll Game Vault and is available starting today.
More: Gizmodo, Decrypt, Android Headlines, Destructoid, Lifewire, GameSpot, IGN, Mashable, VentureBeat, CNET, SlashGear, Variety, TouchArcade, and Cord Cutters News. Bluesky: @epro.social
| ABC: |
Australian mobile network Optus is suffering an outage impacting millions of customers, including major hospitals and Melbourne's Metro Trains — Loading... Optus mobile services are down across the country, affecting millions of Australian customers and businesses. — Key points:
More: Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg, Reuters, and iTnews
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Barack Obama on regulating social media and AI, privacy bills, Biden's EO on AI, incumbents embracing AI regulation, generative AI IP issues, and more — The former president joined me on Decoder to discuss AI regulation, the First Amendment, and of course, what apps he has on his homescreen.| Reuters: |
Bumble reports Q3 revenue up 18.4% YoY to $275.5M, vs. $277M est., net earnings down 13% YoY to $23.1M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; BMBL drops 6%+ — Bumble (BMBL.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, in a sign that sticky inflation …
More: Observer, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, and Bumble Inc.
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $467M, vs. $478.9M est., trading revenue down 11% YoY to $185M, including crypto trading down 55% YoY; HOOD drops 8%+ — - Third-quarter crypto notional volumes fell 55% on the year — Online brokerage plans to launch EU crypto trading in weeks| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Ancestry, MyHeritage, and 23andMe begin notifying their users to say their accounts will use 2FA by default, following the theft of millions of 23andMe records — DNA testing and genealogy companies are stepping up user account security by mandating the use of two-factor authentication …
More: 23andMe Blog. Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Arvil Nagpal and John Loughney
| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp gives its beta users the ability to search for messages by date in its web client — WhatsApp is releasing a new search message by date feature to some beta testers who previously joined the official beta program of WhatsApp Web, making it easier for them to quickly search …
More: Android Police, Android Headlines, Times of India, Gadgets 360, The News International, and Tuko.co.ke. X: @sahilk
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales from April to September grew 2% YoY to 6.84M — - Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday as it continues to get a bump from the …
More: Dexerto, Video Games Chronicle, Bloomberg, Nintendo - Investor Relations, Video Games Chronicle, Kotaku, GameSpot, TechSpot, T3, IGN, RTÉ, Game Developer, KNSD-TV, Associated Press, GamesIndustry.biz, VentureBeat, Wccftech, and Reuters
X: @oatmealdome, @deeketweak, @deeketweak, @deeketweak, and @domsplaying
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