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Sources: Google plans to preview an AI product codenamed Jarvis, which takes over a user's web browser to complete tasks like booking a flight, in December — Google is developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person's web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research …
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Sources: Google is aiming to release its Gemini 2.0 model in December; the model isn't showing the performance gains the Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for — The AI race is heating up just in time for winter. — As my colleagues Kylie Robison and Tom Warren reported … | Associated Press: |
Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
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| Christopher Yasiejko / Bloomberg Law: |
A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages — Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1377) — Apple Inc. v. Masimo Corp. (D. Del., 22-cv-1378) — Search by Law Firm Search by Topic Search by Company
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| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
An interview with Humane co-founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri on dealing with the reaction to the AI Pin, plans to license its CosmOS, and more — It's Saturday in South Park. Kids are squealing. A man shadowboxes behind me. Sitting across from me on a not-so-clean bench … | David Morris / Bloomberg: |
Chinese self-driving company WeRide's shares closed up 6.8% at $16.55, giving it a market cap of ~$4.5B, after raising $440.5M in a US IPO and private placement — The Guangzhou-based company's ADS pared initial gains to close at $16.55 on Friday in New York, above the IPO price of $15.50 apiece.
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| Ned Beauman / Financial Times: |
A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack — Tech workers cannot resist the cult video game that asks players to single-handedly restage the industrial revolution
More: Gamereactor UK, Comic Book, PC Gamer, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has made it harder in recent weeks for foreign companies, particularly chip makers, to buy such materials in China — Already the dominant producer of rare minerals, Beijing is using export restrictions and its power over state-owned companies to further control access.
X: @martijnrasser and @alantonelson
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M — Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) in a Georgia state court after a global outage …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Estimated Vision Pro 2024 sales are only slightly less than the reported peak production capacity, implying sales are almost in line with Apple's expectations — Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — here's Techmeme's roundup of summaries and regurgitations) …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is with Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff. Salesforce is one of the most important companies in tech history.
More: GeekWire, Forbes, Platformonomics, Fortune, and Benzinga
X: @benioff, @benioff, @benioff, @benioff, @justincormack, and @0xkarmatic. LinkedIn: Brendan Keeler
| Bloomberg: |
The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether, a noticeable player in the market for US debt, will extend beyond the digital asset industry — Of all the legal actions taken against cryptocurrency companies by US regulators and prosecutors over the past year …
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