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Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta — In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research …
More: Anthropic on YouTube, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Anthropic, Tom's Guide, The Decoder, Maginative, AI News, CNBC, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Threads: @crumbler. X: @anthropicai, @kylebrussell, @aidan_mclau, @sammcallister, @mikeyk, @alexalbert__, @walthickey, @anthropicai, @alexalbert__, @minimaxir, @anthropicai, @yacinemtb, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @stevenhhb, and @alexalbert__. Forums: Hacker News
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Anthropic claims that its new Sonnet 3.5 model scores 49% on SWE-bench Verified, up from 33.4% and “higher than all” public models, and debuts Claude 3.5 Haiku — Today, we're announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku.
More: The Information, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, Neowin, Boing Boing, Simon Willison's Weblog, Cointelegraph, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, AIM, Constellation Research, The Stack, WinBuzzer, Wired, and Bloomberg
X: @zck, @anthropicai, @robertwiblin, and @anthropicai
LinkedIn: Bridget Sauer, Scott Krenitski, and Krishna Rao
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and Slashdot
| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up — The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/gamernews, r/iosgaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/xbox, and r/PS5
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
iPad mini (2024) review: fast A17 Pro chip, delightful size, and Pencil Pro support, but less powerful than other iPads, outdated Touch ID and camera placement — Apple's smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won't feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm” — Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
More: The Verge, Breitbart, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, Fortune, Gizmodo, Mashable, Washington Times, New York Post, Daily Mail, Sherwood News, Business Insider, Quartz, PCMag, Financial Express, Neowin, Fast Company, and NewsBytes
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Forums: r/technology and r/ElonJetTracker
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies …
More: US Securities …, The Register, The Record, BleepingComputer, Axios, PCMag, CyberScoop, Bloomberg, SecurityWeek, and The Cyber Express
LinkedIn: Christopher Hetner and Melanie Ensign
| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs — Chipmaker reported having received order for processor resembling that of Chinese company Huawei
More: Tom's Hardware, The Register, Reuters, AppleInsider, Quartz, 9to5Mac, and WinBuzzer
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: TechInsights took apart at least one of Huawei's latest AI chips and found an Ascend 910B made by TSMC, which says it stopped Huawei shipments in 2020 — - Ascend 910B is made with TSMC's 7-nm process, per TechInsights — The chip was first spotted in servers in China in 2022
More: Reuters
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions — America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data.
More: Business Insider and New Republic
X: @silvermanjacob and @mediaevan
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/RepublicanValues, and r/politics
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Source: Polymarket is making new checks to verify that users, especially big spenders, are not US-based; Fredi9999 has bet $18M+ on Republican outcomes so far — - US users are not supposed to be trading on Polymarket — The predictions market has seen a surge in big pro-Trump bets
More: Benzinga, crypto.news, Fortune, Decrypt, Time, CCN.com, Inc.com, and Reuters. X: @emilyjnicolle
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Penguin Random House, UMG, and SAG-AFTRA join 11.5K+ signatories of an open letter saying the “unlicensed use of creative works” to train AI must not be allowed — Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals' work to train AI models
More: TechCrunch, Statement on AI training, Washington Post, Engadget, The Hill, The Wrap, Stereogum, and The Bookseller
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29 — Following a string of controversies stemming from technical hiccups and licensing changes, AI startup Stability AI has announced …
More: Stability AI, Engadget, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, AI News, and WinBuzzer. Forums: r/StableDiffusion
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system — WhatsApp announced today a new feature that will allow users to save contacts within the app.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TollBit, which recently launched a content monetization marketplace for publishers and AI companies, raised a $24M Series A led by Lightspeed Ventures — - “As AI agents become more accessible and proliferate at an exponential rate, publishers and digital content owners need a way to monetize content … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts — Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
More: Meta, Engadget, Silicon Republic, The Hill, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, GreenBot, Silicon UK, The Mirror, Hindustan Times, The Guardian, Bizcommunity, International Business Times, Neowin, News.ng, Malwarebytes, TechSpot, Mashable, BBC, Affiverse, Techpoint Africa, Infosecurity, Financial Express, MEDIANAMA, WinBuzzer, 9to5Mac, The Verge, RTÉ, Marketing Beat, 9News, The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Social Media Today, Tech in Asia, The Independent, The Straits Times, PCMag, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance
X: @nickclegg, @john_j_howard, @newley, @nickclegg, @nickclegg, and @rmsherman
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut — Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store …
More: How-To Geek, MobileSyrup, iClarified, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, PCMag, Cord Cutters News, Engadget, PhoneArena, Benzinga, TechIssuesToday.com, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Unauthoritative Pronouncements, BGR, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
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X: @timsweeneyepic, @dylanmcd8, @markgurman, and @drbarnard
Forums: Hacker News, r/DisneyPlus, and MacRumors Forums
| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Asana launches AI Studio in early access, a no-code tool for designing AI agents that can be integrated into teams' existing workflows — Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise across workplaces and industries. From performing admin tasks in meetings to helping with sales calls …
More: Asana, HackerNoon, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
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