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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Source: on top of the $6.6B in funding, OpenAI got a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and others, bringing its total liquidity to $10B+ — OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned.
More: TechCrunch, Business Standard, Engadget, Bloomberg, CoinGape, Taipei Times, Quartz, and Axios
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI raised $6.6B led by Thrive Capital, the largest VC deal of all time, valuing it at $157B, with participation from Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, and others — - Not taking part, a source confirms, is Apple, which reportedly had been in talks to invest.
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Matt Kroll
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out AI-organized Search results in the US on mobile, showing users AI-aggregated pages of content from forums, articles, YouTube videos, and more — Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US — Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you'll now start seeing products in some of the search engine's AI-generated summaries.
More: 9to5Google, Adweek, and Search Engine Land
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Lens to let users take a video or use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile — If you can't capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you're seeing.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting an RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers, disclosed on September 27, triggered by emailing the SMTP server — Hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers that can be triggered simply … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page — YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WP Engine files a lawsuit in California against Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of “abuse of power, extortion, and greed” — Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed a lawsuit against Automattic, and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Offline Backup, which automatically makes recently streamed and now playing queued songs available as an offline playlist for Premium users — Spotify introduced a new feature today called Offline Backup. This feature for premium users is essentially a list of songs … | Nicola M. White / Bloomberg: |
Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC's top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11 — - Grewal helped lead WhatsApp probes, crypto industry crackdown — SEC official was previously New Jersey's attorney general
More: US Securities …, CCN.com, Cryptopolitan, CryptoGlobe, Cryptonews, Wall Street Journal, crypto.news, Reuters, Decrypt, and Cointelegraph. X: @secgov
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more — The technology, which marries Meta's smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English — Google initially rolled out Gemini Live, its conversational AI voice chat, in just one language: English.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Co-founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith plan to close the World Wide Web Foundation after 15 years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible — Who wants to join his so Solid crew? — After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, featuring a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app — Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover. The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model Flux1.1 Pro — Black Forest Labs, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup behind the image generation model in xAI's Grok assistant, has launched an API in beta — and released a new model.
More: Black Forest Labs, VentureBeat, and Maginative
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
PayPal completes its first business payment using its proprietary PYUSD stablecoin, paying an E&Y invoice on September 23 via SAP's digital currency hub — SAP's platform, known as the digital currency hub, allows enterprises to send and receive digital payments instantly, around the clock.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, seeking to reverse a July 2023 ruling that XRP sales on retail exchanges didn't violate securities rules — A federal judge ruled last year that the SEC had not made its case that Ripple violated securities law by selling XRP to retail customers through exchanges.
More: The Verge, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Blockworks, Bloomberg, Reuters, Cointelegraph, ZyCrypto, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, The Crypto Basic, CryptoPotato, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, Watcher Guru, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptopolitan, CCN.com, CryptoGlobe, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Cryptonews, Unchained, Crypto Briefing, Crypto Adventure, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, Watcher Guru, Cointelegraph, and Coinspeaker
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a new canvas ChatGPT interface in beta that opens a separate window beside the normal chat window for writing and coding projects — OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.” The product opens a separate window …
More: VentureBeat and ZDNET
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data center server racks in a proprietary coolant, raised a $55.5M Series C led by M&G at a ~$500M post-money valuation — The race is on for better chips and data center capacity to handle AI workloads, but all that activity comes with a catch.
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