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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on how internet traffic surge during COVID helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, internet balkanization, more — I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt.| Wall Street Journal: |
How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions — Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists can't get enough.| Marah Eakin / Wired: |
Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short — Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools … | K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg: |
DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it a Chinese military company, says the DOD didn't engage on the issue for over 16 months — - US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
01.ai, DeepSeek, and other Chinese companies are reducing costs to create AI models by focusing on smaller training data sets, as they deal with export controls — 01.ai, Alibaba and ByteDance have cut ‘inference’ costs despite Washington curbs on accessing cutting-edge chips| Financial Times: |
Fuji Soft's board decided to keep backing KKR's ~$4B buyout offer despite Bain's $4.2B bid, in a rare battle between PE titans over a Japanese software company — Private equity titans cause a stir in the country, with a rare battle over Japanese software company| The Verge: |
A judge grants Google a temporary stay on the Epic ruling while Google appeals, which means Google might not have to change Play Store practices for years — Google just netted a small but key victory in its Epic legal battle. Last week, the company asked Judge James Donato to press pause …
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A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future — [Editor's Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant's past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.
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Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini — The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract — The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and …
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| Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller: |
Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints — The world's biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors' intellectual property …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only — Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company's first open-source multimodal language model capable …
More: Meta, The Indian Express, Cryptopolitan, MarkTechPost, and Reuters
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Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models — Mira Murati, former chief technology officer at OpenAI, is raising funds from venture capitalists for her new AI startup, according to sources familiar with the matter.Sponsor Posts
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