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Sam Altman claims “deep learning worked”, superintelligence may be “a few thousand days” away, and “astounding triumphs” will incrementally become commonplace — In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WP Engine sends a cease-and-desist letter to Automattic to “retract false, harmful, and disparaging statements”, after Matt Mullenweg called it a “cancer” — WordPress hosting service WP Engine on Monday sent a cease-and-desist letter to Automattic …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to include the standalone Gemini app as standard in its Workspace Business, Enterprise, and Frontline plans from Q4, replacing the Gemini add-on — Google is making Gemini AI a core part of its Workspace productivity suite, which could see the chatbot adopted by millions more users.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google Photos rolls out an update to its mobile video editor for Android and iOS, adding editing tools and AI presets to make trimming and tweaking clips easier — Features coming to Android devices include a new “Speed” tool for creating slo-mo or sped-up videos, a new “Auto enhance” … | Bloomberg: |
Memo: a US arbitrator awards a full severance package to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when Musk took over, a possible precedent for 2K+ complaints — Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform …
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
A profile of Goldman Sachs' head of stock research Jim Covello, who has become Wall Street's leading AI skeptic after joining the bank in 2000 as a tech analyst — Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs's head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn't need “typically ends badly.”| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
US intelligence officials say Russia, Iran, and China are using AI tools to boost US election influence efforts, with Russia's efforts being the most aggressive — American intelligence officials say Moscow's efforts, aimed mostly at undermining Harris, are the most aggressive.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019 — TikTok Music will go offline on Nov. 28 and customer data will be deleted, the music division said in a post on its website.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after launching in the UK and Australia — Spotify is expanding an AI feature that creates customized playlists from your text descriptions to additional English-speaking regions.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code starting on October 29 — GitHub will soon allow cloud customers to store their code data in the European Union (EU), part of a growing push in the technology realm to meet regulatory requirements …
More: The GitHub Blog, CNBC, TechRadar, and Neowin
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find that UltraAV was installed remotely to replace Kaspersky on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV owner Pango — Customers of Kaspersky antivirus in the United States found out in the last few days that their cybersecurity software …
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| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Kaspersky finds a new Necro malware version in Google Play apps with 11M+ total downloads; in 2019, researchers found Necro in Play apps with 100M+ downloads — The Necro trojan was found in two Android applications in Google Play with a combined downloads count of over 11 million.
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Source: Meta plans to launch the voices of Judi Dench, Kristen Bell, John Cena, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key for its Meta AI chatbot at Connect this week — Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) is planning to announce this week that it has secured deals with actors including Judi Dench … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding — As the volume of cyberattacks grows, there's increasing interest from the corporate sector in tech to help automate responses to breaches.
More: Globes Online, Torq, and SiliconANGLE
| New York Times: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the Phone-Free Schools Act, which will require schools to restrict cellphone use during school hours by July 1, 2026 — Calls for crackdowns have mounted with reports of cyberbullying and studies indicating that smartphones are harmful to children's mental health.| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Collaboration software maker Smartsheet agrees to be acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for $8.4B in cash, or $56.50/share, closing in early 2025 — Collaboration software maker Smartsheet announced Tuesday Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners will acquire it in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $8.4 billion.
More: Smartsheet, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised $100M led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M — - The organization behind the modular blockchain network has raised $100 million in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto, bringing its total financing to $155 million.| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Scale AI nearly quadrupled sales YoY to ~$400M in H1 2024 and had ~$980M in cash; the data labeling startup raised $1B at a $13.8B valuation in May — Helping artificial intelligence companies improve the accuracy of their large language models is turning into a giant business for Scale AI … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more — One day after the Google TV Streamer hit stores, Roku is announcing its latest streaming player.| New York Times: |
How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls — An illustration of a man sitting on a green chair reading a newspaper called “World News” as he looks at his phone behind it.Jackson Gibbs
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