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Google Cloud debuts Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro with a 2M context window, twice as big as before, “grounding” for better Google search accuracy, and new agents — Google Cloud launched a series of updates including new Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro models with a 2 million context window … | 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.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
More: Google Cloud, TechHive, TVNewsCheck, Engadget, Variety, The Wrap, Quartz, PCMag, Tv Technology, Benzinga, The Verge, and The Hollywood Reporter
| New York Times: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg wants to get away from politics, pulling back from charitable causes that may seem partisan, tamping down employee activism, and more — It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics.
More: Business Insider. Threads: @pkafka and @cwarzel. Mastodon: @jalcine@todon.eu
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X: @orientaljanedoe, @jordanzakarin, @argojournal, @nick_field90, @fredbauerblog, and @teddyschleifer. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Brady Dale / Axios: |
Caroline Ellison, a star witness in the prosecution of FTX founder and former boyfriend SBF, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the FTX scandal — - “I've seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years. … - She talked to the government prior to Bankman-Fried's arrest …
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has tried to unlawfully crush competitors, including PayPal and Square — The financial service company reportedly tried to ‘smother’ competitors and feared Apple as an ‘existential threat.’
More: US Department of Justice, Bloomberg, Fortune, The Information, Engadget, Finextra, CNBC, Reuters, The Hill, Yahoo Lifestyle, Quartz, CNN, Washington Examiner, Kiplinger.com, Payments Dive, Politico, KSTP-TV, CBS News, New York Times, NPR, Axios, New York Daily News, Business Insider, Proactive, Associated Press, MarketWatch, and Financial Times
| 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.
More: Spotify, ZDNET, PCMag, Android Authority, TweakTown, Droid Life, XDA Developers, Mashable, Neowin, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, MSPoweruser, Engadget, Thurrott, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Reuters. LinkedIn: Jonathan Marmor
| Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms” — The union charges one of the multiplayer game's producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Marques Brownlee says “I hear you” after criticism of his new freemium wallpaper app Panels, over privacy concerns, a $50/year price for full access, and more — Marques Brownlee, the YouTuber known as MKBHD, has responded to backlash over the launch of his new wallpaper app, called Panels.
More: Android Police, POCIT, Wavelengths, Dexerto, Digital Trends, Benzinga, TechCrunch, and Boing Boing
Threads: @lukehurd, @bernardgatt, @ashjcoronado_, @mkbhd, @crumbler, @letterboxd_steve, @eshwarnag, @jonathangarelick, @devyn1989, @tomgehrke, and @ruidamosher
Mastodon: @seb@androiddev.social, @julipuli@mastodon.social, @aulia@mementomori.social, @ljpuk@twit.social, @engravecavedave …, @thomholwerda@exquisite.social, @harshil@mastodon.social, @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org, @harshil@mastodon.social, @harshil@mastodon.social, @TimDuran@twit.social, and @andyn@social.lol. Bluesky: @radiobeartime.com
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users — OpenAI announced it is rolling out Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to an expanded set of ChatGPT's paying customers on Tuesday.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps — Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more.
More: The Keyword, Android Authority, Ruetir, The Tech Basic, MakeUseOf, and 9to5Google
Forums: r/technology and r/geoguessr
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google updates Google Photos' mobile video editor for Android and iOS, adding editing tools and AI presets that should 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” … | Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
A profile of Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs' head of stock research 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.”
More: Fortune. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. LinkedIn: Michael Zink. Forums: Hacker News
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: some key staff working on Microsoft's distilled AI models trained on synthetic data, like Phi, have left the Microsoft AI unit led by Mustafa Suleyman — In case you missed it, my colleagues broke news yesterday about Anthropic's attempt to draft off OpenAI's pending fundraising, by looking to do its own funding round.
More: New York Times
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has joined its board of directors — The director says that “the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave” of film technology, as he joins the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion AI model.
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, VentureBeat, Deadline, Forbes, Stability AI, Destructoid, Reuters, Telegraph, Variety, The Wrap, SlashFilm, IndieWire, and UKTN
Threads: @chuck_wendig. X: @stabilityai, @rachelmetz, @ehuanglu, @rahll, @nljigakulive, @generalmcbride, and @bilawalsidhu. LinkedIn: Ryan Phillips
Forums: r/Fauxmoi, r/4kbluray, and r/movies
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and delete user data; originally called Resso, the app launched in 2019 and was in five countries — TikTok Music will go offline on Nov. 28 and customer data will be deleted, the music division said in a post on its website.| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Collaboration software maker Smartsheet agrees to be acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for ~$8.4B, or $56.50/share, set to close in January 2025 — Collaboration software maker Smartsheet on Tuesday announced Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners will acquire it in an all-cash deal valuing … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region for Azure, in the Netherlands or Sweden, to store all their code from 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 … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Duolingo unveils an interactive AI feature to “video call” with its Lily mascot, as part of its $30/month Duolingo Max tier; the dialogue is generated by GPT-4o — Luis von Ahn, who grew up with little money in Guatemala, aims to transform the popular language-learning app into an automated AI tutor.
More: CNET, Neowin, Investor's Business Daily, PocketGamer.biz, and Digital Trends
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Ujet, which uses AI to help businesses with customer support, raised $76M led by Sapphire Ventures, valuing the company at $500M, and promotes its COO to co-CEO — Customer service startup UJET Inc. has raised $76 million from investors and named a new co-chief executive officer.| 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 … | David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Sources: FBI raided the Reston, Virginia offices of Carahsoft, a government IT vendor, as part of a probe into a company with which Carahsoft has done business — The FBI confirmed the raid but declined to provide further details. — The FBI raided the Reston, Virginia headquarters of IT … | 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 …
More: mjtsai.com, r/Wordpress, Search Engine Journal, TechSpot, and TechRadar
Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. X: @wpengine, @justinferriman, @rarst, @jacobwolf, @katiekeithbarn2, @mattpaulsonsd, @photomatt, @photomatt, @twentworth12, and @asmartbear. Forums: r/Wordpress
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Correction in preview as part of the Azure AI Content Safety API; the service tries to find and revise AI-generated text that's factually wrong — AI is a notorious liar, and Microsoft now says it has a fix for that. Understandably, that's going to raise some eyebrows, but there's reason to be skeptical.
More: Microsoft Tech Community and The Decoder
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