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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI gets a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and others, on top of the $6.6B in funding, bringing its liquidity to $10B+ — OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI's CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now — Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.
More: Legit.ng, The Verge, and Business Insider
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Matt Kroll
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/mlscaling, and r/singularity
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates Lens to let users take a video and 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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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews for 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.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI introduces canvas, a beta interface for Plus and Teams users 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.”
More: OpenAI, VentureBeat, The Decoder, TestingCatalog, Digital Trends, Neowin, Maginative, Tom's Guide, Wired, Every, GreenBot, and ZDNET
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 — - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube updates Shorts with the ability for creators to upload up to three-minute videos, a streamlined Shorts player, templates, and a new trends mobile page — YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.| 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 … | 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 …
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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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| 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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple's first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15 — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
More: MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Google, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| 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 …
More: Android Authority, 9to5Google, ZDNET, Livemint, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Cybernews.com, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, Droid Life, Neowin, The Shortcut, Gadgets & Wearables, iClarified, HotHardware, Quartz, CNET, MacRumors, Android Police, Wareable, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, WWD, CNBC, and TechCrunch
Forums: r/ouraring and r/SmartRings
| 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, for 2K images — 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.| Google Developers Blog: |
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster variant of 1.5 Flash, with 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts — Today, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, our latest Flash variant, is production-ready and comes with: — Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8b …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. X: @officiallogank, @altryne, @natolambert, @maxwinebach, @_arohan_, and @officiallogank
LinkedIn: Paige Bailey and Logan Kilpatrick
| 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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| 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.
More: Kellie Peterson, The Verge, Tedium, WP Engine, Silicon Republic, Engadget, San Francisco Business Times, Search Engine Journal, GreenBot, Automattic, and The Register
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| 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.
More: The Verge, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, The Crypto Basic, Finextra, and Coinbase
LinkedIn: Brian Stern, Smitha Purohit, May Z., Jose Fernandez da Ponte, and Rebecca Carvatt. Forums: Slashdot
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: Q3 US VC investments rose ~8% YoY to $37.9B across 3,777 deals; AI startups got 36% of the deal value and 27% of the deal count from Q1 to Q3 2024 — Artificial intelligence firms received more than one-third of the funds in the third quarter.
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