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Kylie Robison / The Verge:
OpenAI releases o1, the first of the rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team users  —  OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can.
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Threads: @kylie.robison, @charl.p.botha, @pawankalhansh, @jwang815, @saadhjawwadh, @eshumarneedi, @alexheath, @octernion, @aaditsh, @tomgara, and @eshumarneedi
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LinkedIn: Asif B., Bret Taylor, and Thomas Dohmke
Forums: Hacker News, r/anime_titties, r/technology, and r/singularity
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
o1 System Card: “medium” rating for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear weapon risk, and it sometimes manipulated task data to fake alignment
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI claims that in a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, o1 correctly solved 83% of the problems, while GPT-4o solved only 13%
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
The FDA approves the Hearing Aid Feature in Apple's AirPods Pro 2, calling it the “first over-the-counter hearing aid software device”  —  The iPhone 16 took center stage at Apple's “Glowtime” event, but the most interesting tidbit came from a different line entirely.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
How the hearing aid feature in AirPods Pro 2 could change the hearing aid industry, where most devices range from $799 into the thousands of dollars  —  Soon, people with AirPods in their ears might not be drowning you out — they might be wearing them to hear you better.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
All 25 staffers of Annapurna's gaming division resigned this month after CEO Megan Ellison pulled out of talks to spin off the unit as an independent entity  —  Megan Ellison-led firm sees staffers quit after spinoff talks fail.  —  The entire staff of Annapurna Interactive …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.41B, vs. $5.37B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4B, Q4 revenue guidance below est.; ADBE drops 9%+ after hours  —  - Company has added AI tools to its signature creative software  — Revenue gains 11% in reported quarter; profit tops estimate
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The White House says Adobe, Cohere, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Common Crawl made voluntary commitments to fight AI-generated image-based sexual abuse  —  The White House has announced that several major AI vendors, including OpenAI and Microsoft, have committed to taking steps …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike, Broadcom, and other security vendors operate outside of the Windows kernel  —  Microsoft is announcing plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike and other security vendors operate outside of the Windows kernel.
Chris Kerr / Game Developer:
Unity cancels its controversial Runtime Fee and reverts to its existing seat-based subscription model, but raises Unity Pro's and Unity Enterprise's prices  —  Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee and reverting back to its existing seat-based subscription model, albeit with a price increase for Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise users.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
At an Acquired podcast event, Zuckerberg said he's done with apologizing and his biggest mistake was taking too much ownership for issues out of Meta's control  —  The home of the Golden State Warriors was packed on Tuesday evening this week, but it wasn't to watch Steph Curry.
Teresa Xie / Bloomberg:
eToro USA agrees to pay $1.5M and limit US user trading to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether to settle SEC allegations that it operated as an unregistered broker  —  - Unregistered broker, clearing agency allegations settled  — US users will be limited to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Mastercard agrees to acquire Recorded Future, which uses AI-based analytics to identify potential threats, from private equity firm Insight Partners for $2.65B  —  Mastercard (MA.N) has agreed to buy threat intelligence company Recorded Future from private equity firm Insight Partners for $2.65 billion …
Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN:
Memo: Microsoft lays off 650 staff from its gaming business, bringing the cuts in its gaming business to 2,550 jobs since acquiring Activision Blizzard in 2023  —  No games canceled or studios closed this time.  —  Microsoft is laying off a further 650 staff from its gaming business …
Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
Nick Clegg says Elon Musk turned X into “a sort of one man, sort of hyper-partisan and ideological hobby horse”, contrasting Meta's content moderation with X's  —  The Meta exec and former British deputy PM launched a broadside at X owner Elon Musk.  —  LONDON — Watch out Elon, Sir Nick's out to get you.
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Vox Media says its annual Code Conference has been put on hold, calling it a “strong franchise” but declining to share further information about its future  —  Outside missing a year during the Covid-19 pandemic, it's the first time the annual technology conference has not taken place in its more than two-decade history.
Threads: @kylie.robison
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
A hacker says he tricked ChatGPT into giving detailed instructions to make a fertilizer bomb, by getting it to “play a game” and create a sci-fi fantasy world  —  An explosives expert said the ChatGPT outpout was too sensitive to be released.  —  If you ask ChatGPT to help …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Salesforce rolls out Agentforce, a suite of AI agents that handle tasks in sales, marketing, commerce, and customer service, starting at $2 per conversation  —  - Out of the box, Salesforce is offering a handful of agents that can handle tasks such as sales rep, service agent, personal shopper and sales coach.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Gemini Live to free users with Android devices set to English, following its release to Gemini Advanced subscribers last month  —  After coming to Advanced subscribers a month ago, Gemini Live is now starting to roll out to free users on Android.
Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica:
In two experiments with 2,190 American conspiracy theorists, conversations with GPT-4 Turbo reduced their belief in conspiracy theories by about 20% on average  —  Co-author Gordon Pennycook: “The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies.”  —  Belief in conspiracy theories …

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