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September 26, 2024, 10:20 AM

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Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she is leaving the company after 6.5 years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration”  —  - OpenAI's board is considering plans to restructure the firm to a for-profit business … OpenAI's board is considering plans …
Reuters:
Sources: Sam Altman will receive equity in OpenAI for the first time, as it plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation  —  ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI promotes Mark Chen to its new SVP of Research  —  OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing.
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support  —  WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers …
The Verge:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more  —  Meta's CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he's done with politics, and more.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Scott Stein / CNET:
Hands-on with Meta's Orion: needs a wireless processor puck, weighs only 100g, is packed with sensors, and has good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.”  —  I wore Mark Zuckerberg's contact lenses.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta unveils an Orion prototype, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, a wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors  —  Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform?
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
The Hacker News:
Google says its transition to memory-safe languages like Rust led to memory-safe vulnerabilities in Android dropping from 76% in 2019 to 24% in 2024  —  Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta's Horizon Store now supports 2D PWAs apps, native Android apps, or apps built via the new Meta Spatial SDK, which lets developers use Android dev tools  —  During its developer keynote at the Meta Connect conference on Wednesday, the company pitched its Quest mixed reality platform to developers as the next big app store.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Pritam Biswas / Reuters:
PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal business accounts, except in New York state at launch  —  PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) announced on Wednesday it is enabling U.S. merchants to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency from their business accounts.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
David Lumb / CNET:
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones  —  The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people's phones... and potentially smaller accessories, too.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

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