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Hands-on with Apple's hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2, set for iOS 18.1: hearing aids work well, hearing protection in all modes, and a hearing test — The AirPods Pro 2 will soon offer more robust hearing protection and a new hearing aid feature. But it's the hearing test that has really hooked me.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils 10 new AI agents for its enterprise-focused Dynamics 365 apps covering sales, finance, and more, ahead of Salesforce's Agentforce availability — AI agents are reigniting the competition between Microsoft and Salesforce. — Microsoft announced 10 new AI agents …
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| João da Silva / BBC: |
ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions — TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of and interview with Tim Cook on being “perfectly fine with not being first”, running Apple, Vision Pro, AI, the Design Studio, group chats, and more — The CEO of the world's most valuable company led two of the biggest product launches of his tenure this year …
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Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double its valuation to $8B or more; Perplexity's annualized revenue is ~$50M, up from ~$10M in March 2024 — Search-based chatbot seeks to raise about $500 million in what would be its fourth funding round in a year
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| Alexandra Marquez / NBC News: |
After Elon Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter per day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says “law enforcement could take a look” — Musk announced Saturday that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a randomly selected voter who signs a petition circulated by his super PAC.
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on his Nobel Prize being “a watershed moment for AI”, biology, AlphaFold 3, Isomorphic Labs, drug programs, and more — Founder of the artificial intelligence R&D lab says scientific understanding can prevent mis-steps in developing the technology
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: some at Apple think it is over two years behind the leaders in generative AI; a closer look at changes in Apple's HR and hardware engineering groups — Apple's new iPad mini highlights the company's secret advantage in artificial intelligence. Also: Sonos weighs a headphone reboot …
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| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
IBM launches its open source Granite 3.0 models, including 2B and 8B general purpose versions and Mixture-of-Experts models, aimed at enterprise customers — Make no mistake about it, enterprise AI is big business, especially for IBM. — IBM already has a $2 billion book of business related …
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigation: a Russian espionage and hacking campaign targeted Georgia for years and breached its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, central bank, and more — With an election this week, documents seen by Bloomberg expose the extent of Moscow's infiltration of the former Soviet state.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
How OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are using different approaches to improve “model behavior”, an emerging field shaping systems' responses and characteristics — Leading artificial intelligence companies that are racing to develop the cutting-edge technology are tackling a very human challenge … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M — Seattle startup Carbon Robotics raised $70 million in the latest vote of confidence from investors in the company's agriculture technology platform …
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