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October 25, 2024, 10:15 AM

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The Verge:
Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship model, codenamed Orion, by December, rolling it out in phases starting with the company's trusted partners  —  OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned.  —  Unlike the release of OpenAI's last two models …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping  —  Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, whose relationship soured after Qualcomm became one of the main opponents to Nvidia's attempted Arm acquisition  —  A licensing dispute clouds an important chip industry partnership  —  On paper, Arm and Qualcomm look like natural allies …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach  —  UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen …
Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times:
Microsoft launches Black Ops 6, the first Call of Duty game to debut on Xbox Game Pass, in the biggest test of its gaming strategy since acquiring Activision  —  Tech giant hopes ‘Black Ops 6’ will boost Game Pass subscription service as Xbox sales decline  —  Microsoft is seeking to boost …
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the fight over valuable social media accounts when couples divorce; data: 44% of 27M paid US content creators say social media is their full-time job  —  When couples who make their living online split up, assessing the accounts' future value and divvying them up fairly is a drag
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Wall Street Journal:
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on AI slop, the company's partnerships with Google and OpenAI, content moderation during an election year, and more  —  What makes Reddit a gold mine for AI models, he says, is all of the human-led content on its variety of forums
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities  —  Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google will add an AI info section in the image details view of Google Photos, for images edited with tools like Magic Editor and Magic Eraser  —  There's no putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to generative AI forever shaking our trust in photos, but the tech industry …
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Source: TSMC's US division president said during a webinar that production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher than at similar facilities in Taiwan  —  - Production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher  — The Phoenix plant began trial production earlier this year

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