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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 …
More: Gizmodo, UploadVR, WSJ. Style on YouTube, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Moneycontrol, Livemint, and Sherwood News
Threads: @eshumarneedi and @joannastern. Mastodon: @marcoarment@mastodon.social. X: @parkerortolani. Forums: r/apple
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tim Cook helped Nike secure Elliott Hill as CEO in September, and has carved out a role as one of Nike's closest outside advisers during a turnaround — - Cook has been on the Nike board since before the first iPhone — Nike is undergoing overhaul with new CEO after revenue misses| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more; in a follow-up, an exec said “at the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted” — We declined. … Today's episode of Decoder, well — it's a ride. I'm talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi … | 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 …
More: The Official Microsoft Blog, PCMag, Livemint, Microsoft Copilot Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, BNN Bloomberg, ZDNET, Benzinga, Tech.co, The Times, CCN.com, Windows Central, Neowin, Axios, CNBC, WinBuzzer, Quartz, Constellation Research, Yahoo Finance, Petri IT Knowledgebase, ITPro, Nairametrics, and The Independent
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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.
More: The Guardian, PCMag, Silicon UK, South China Morning Post, Cybernews.com, TechNode, Benzinga, NewsBytes, and Tech in Asia
Forums: Hacker News and r/anime_titties
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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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X: @berber_jin1, @benfritz, and @wsj
| 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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| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goods and services, raised $190M led by BOND at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1.5B in May 2023 — - The procurement startup raised $190 million in the deal — Bond led the financing, with participation from DST and CRV
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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks — Prominent cybersecurity company Sophos is acquiring another well-known firm in the industry, Secureworks, for about $859 million, the two companies announced Monday.
More: CRN, Secureworks, and Reuters
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD unveils Zen 5-based X3D desktop CPUs, arriving November 7, but offers few details and no price, ahead of Intel's Core Ultra 200-series launch on October 24 — AMD is officially announcing its first next-generation X3D desktop processors today, based on its latest Zen 5 architecture.
More: HotHardware, PCMag, PCWorld, PC Gamer, and TweakTown
| 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 …
More: 9to5Mac, HotHardware, T3, MacRumors, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, WinBuzzer, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacDailyNews, Tom's Guide, Neowin, TrendForce News, Android Authority, Wccftech, On my Om, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Forbes, and PhoneArena
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