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OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper offshoot of GPT-4o, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal inputs and outputs coming soon — OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini,” the artificial intelligence startup's latest effort to expand use of its popular chatbot.
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16.8% YoY to $9.56B, vs. $9.53B est., paid memberships up 16.5% YoY to 277.65M, vs. 274.4M est., net income up 44% YoY to $2.15B — Netflix reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results. — Earnings per share: $4.88 vs $4.74 per share expected by LSEG
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| Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Indian crypto exchange WazirX says one of its multisig wallets “experienced a security breach” after $230M+ in withdrawals; WazirX had $500M in holdings in June — One of the exchange's multisig wallets experienced a security breach, the exchange confirmed in an X post.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is exploring a multibillion-euro investment in eyewear group EssilorLuxottica, which makes the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, to expand their partnership — Facebook owner considers multibillion investment in European eyewear group to expand smart glasses partnership
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others form the Coalition for Secure AI to share best practices and open-source methodologies for secure AI deployment — Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and other big names in AI are coming together to form the Coalition for Secure AI …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia and Mistral release Mistral NeMo, a 12B-parameter language model with a 128K-token context window, available under the Apache 2.0 open-source license — Nvidia and French startup Mistral AI jointly announced today the release of a new language model designed to bring powerful AI capabilities directly to business desktops.
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| The Information: |
An ex-Reality Labs manager says Meta asked the unit to cut spending by ~20% from 2024 to 2026; Meta plans two Quest 4 versions in 2026 and a Quest Pro 2 in 2027 — Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has canceled the blank check he once reserved for his augmented reality and virtual reality teams.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says its goo.gl URL shortener links will stop working after August 25, 2025, after it stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March 2019 — After Google stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March of 2019, those links will stop working on August 25, 2025.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple is launching new immersive video content for the Vision Pro over the next few months, including content from The Weeknd and the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend — Apple is launching new “immersive” video content for the Vision Pro over the next few months, including one from The Weeknd … | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.2B during Amazon's 48-hour Prime Day sale, up 11% YoY and in line with estimates; Numerator: the average household spent about $152 — - Discounts on electronics, small appliances drove spending — Amazon sale prompts rival retailers to offer their own deals| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has spoken to many of the largest Hollywood studios about acquiring more programming from their libraries to offer customers in the US and abroad — - Apple TV+ has relied on original series like ‘Ted Lasso’ … The iPhone maker has spoken to several of the largest studios …
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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
A US judge dismisses most of a SEC lawsuit accusing SolarWinds of misleading investors by failing to disclose cybersecurity failures in its Orion software — The groundbreaking lawsuit's claims about inadequate disclosures related to the historic Sunburst attack were thrown out Thursday.| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has talked to chip designers including Broadcom about developing an AI server chip and hired former members of a Google unit that produces TPUs — Last year, as the world's top artificial intelligence developers were racing to speed up their work using ever-bigger clusters of computers …
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| Mathieu Pollet / Politico: |
Microsoft reaches a settlement with French cloud service OVHcloud in which OVHcloud will drop its March 2022 antitrust complaint to EU regulators — With a second cloud pact in weeks, Microsoft has definitely mitigated the threat of an EU probe — for now.| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 40.1% YoY to ~$20.82B and net income up 36.3% YoY to ~$7.62B, both above estimates, as advanced AI chip demand continues to surge — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday beat revenue and profit expectations in the second quarter …
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| Bloomberg: |
Block's Cash App plans to close its UK operations on September 15, after launching in 2018, as the company “deprioritizes global expansion” to focus on the US — The platform, which provides money transfers via a mobile app, will shut on Sept. 15, the company told customers on Thursday.
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| Ryan Dinsdale / IGN: |
Nintendo unveils a Joy-Con charging stand for the Switch, over seven years after launching the console, available on October 17, but doesn't announce a price — Better late than never. — Nintendo has announced an official Joy-Con charging stand for the Nintendo Switch …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Docs: Canadian PE firm PartnerOne paid $28.2M for HeadSpin, whose 2023 revenue was $21M and its Q1 2024 was $5M; HeadSpin was valued at $1.1B in 2020 — Canadian private equity firm PartnerOne paid $28.2 million for HeadSpin, a mobile app testing startup whose founder has been sentenced … Sponsor Posts
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