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October 5, 2024, 5:50 PM

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Wall Street Journal:
Dan Primack / Axios:
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July  —  - At the time, President Biden was still running for reelection. … - He notes that he and Felicia have known Harris …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock  —  Google is rolling out a new set of features aimed at making it less easy for thieves to access your data.
Alan Suderman / Associated Press:
A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021  —  The future was once dazzling for IronNet.  Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral for its AI-generated “deep dive” podcasts with two hosts  —  With this Google tool, you can now listen to a show about any topic you could possibly imagine.  You won't believe your ears.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Apple's AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel 3D depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image  —  Apple's AI research team has developed a new model that could significantly advance how machines perceive depth …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mullenweg says WordPress.org “belongs to me personally”, as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, the WordPress Foundation, and Automattic  —  The lines between the WordPress open-source project, the nonprofit backing it, and the commercial arm owned by Automattic are blurring.
SemiAnalysis:
A deep dive into “AI Neoclouds”, a new breed of cloud compute providers built to offer GPU rentals, like Crusoe, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave, and their economics  —  H100 Rental Price Cuts, AI Neocloud Giants and Emerging Neoclouds, H100 Cluster Bill of Materials and Cluster Deployment …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Google ramps up efforts to integrate AI across its products in India, where it has 700M to 800M users, including launching Gemini Live in nine Indian languages  —  Google is ramping up its artificial intelligence efforts in India to integrate AI across its products for Indians …
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B  —  The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:

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