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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.| 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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LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner and Robby Stein
| 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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| 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
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LinkedIn: Ben Johnson, Jeremy Dallman, and Amy Hogan-Burney
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users — OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”
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| 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.| 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 …
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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 … | 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 …
More: Spotify, MobileSyrup, Android Police, PCMag, The Verge, Engadget, Android Central, Android Authority, Android Headlines, Gizmodo, CNET, How-To Geek, MSPoweruser, MakeUseOf, Digital Music News, PhoneArena, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, and T3. LinkedIn: Mikael Bolle
| 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.
More: The Keyword, Engadget, Google Help Center, The Week, Droid Life, Android Authority, PhoneArena, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, Neowin, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Android Police, Hindustan Times, and Phandroid. LinkedIn: Jules Walter
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M — AI tends to make things up. That's unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses … | 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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Forums: r/ouraring and r/SmartRings
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months — ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round … | 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.
More: Black Forest Labs, The Decoder, Maginative, TestingCatalog, and VentureBeat. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 … | 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 …, Unchained, Inside Bitcoins, CryptoPotato, CCN.com, and The Crypto Times. X: @secgov
| Pooja Salhotra / The Texas Tribune: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors' personal information without parental consent — The attorney general argues that the popular short form video app has not complied with a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active online.Sponsor Posts
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