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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google — The new option will let the chatbot's users search for timely information much as they would on the web.
More: OpenAI, The Verge, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Android Authority, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, Financial Times, ZDNET, MIT Technology Review, MacRumors, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, New York Times, Engadget, CNBC, Android Central, Adweek, The Decoder, MobileSyrup, BetaNews, Neowin, Windows Latest, iPhone in Canada Blog, AIM, Fast Company, WinBuzzer, Wired, Search Engine Journal, and Axios
Threads: @thiccreese and @mergesort
X: @rowancheung, @stevenheidel, @embirico, @kimmonismus, @bentossell, @openai, @treiner5, @sama, @snsf, @suhail, @kevinweil, @artemr, @artemr, @openai, @altryne, @yampeleg, @sama, @openai, @simonw, and @sama
LinkedIn: Eric Herbel, Daniel Longoria, and Conor Dragomanovich
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, and Ars OpenForum
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
More: Android Police, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Business Insider, Forbes, Reuters, The Information, Search Engine Land, PCMag, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, MakeUseOf, CoinGape, Yen.com.gh, Quartz, Mashable, Maginative, BGR, Fast Company, iClarified, TipRanks Financial, Financial Times, and Android Authority
| Financial Times: |
China sanctions Skydio, the US' largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military; sources say Skydio is rushing to find new suppliers for critical parts — Skydio, the US's largest drone maker and a supplier to Ukraine's military, faces a supply chain crisis after Beijing imposed sanctions …
More: Skydio, PCMag, The Verge, PetaPixel, Engadget, Forbes, and Benzinga
Mastodon: @kevinrothrock@infosec …. X: @luke_metro, @mylovanov, @morganortagus, @nolanwpeterson, @avidcommentator, @ashleevance, @collinslkoh, @oriana0214, @jorge_guajardo, @repmeijer, @dimi, @jhl_express, @softminus, @adampbry, @joemosch, @noahpinion, @doggydog1208, @dimi, @samgoodman22, and @bznotes. LinkedIn: Peter W. Singer. Forums: Hacker News
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Sophos details a five-year battle with Chinese hackers exploiting its firewalls, and how its device “implants” traced the hacks to a university and a contractor — Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so …
More: Sophos News, Sophos News, SecurityWeek, and Help Net Security
Mastodon: @threatresearch@infosec …, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
LinkedIn: Graham Helton, Jacob Williams, and Andy Greenberg
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft delays the rollout of its controversial Recall feature to December to “refine the experience”, after previously pushing it from June to October — Microsoft says it needs more time to make sure the AI feature is ‘a secure and trusted experience’
More: XDA Developers, PCWorld, BleepingComputer, Windows Central, Engadget, Neowin, OSnews, and Windows Report
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Bluesky: @lowmagnet.bsky.social. X: @tomwarren. Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips made by TSMC's N7 process and with Wi-Fi 7 in the iPhone 17 lineup, reducing its reliance on Broadcom — Apple's big launches for 2024 are nearly complete, so reports are going to pick up regarding the 2025 product lineup.
More: MacRumors, Macworld, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, PhoneArena, BGR, and Digital Trends
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google adds Gemini in Google Maps in the US, with AI-summarized reviews and answers to conversational questions by users, and adds 150 cities to Immersive View — Google Maps is getting a big update that's supposed to help you find new places to visit with AI.
More: The Keyword, PCMag, 9to5Google, Yahoo Finance, How-To Geek, Associated Press, Neowin, MediaPost, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, Droid Life, Android Central, Android Police, Forbes, Condé Nast Traveler, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Reuters, TalkAndroid.com, WinBuzzer, Android Authority, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, Lifewire, Fast Company, Axios, Tom's Guide, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, The Verge, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Engadget, Trusted Reviews, and MobileSyrup
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows users will only be able to buy one year of Extended Security Updates for Windows 10 for $30, after support ends in October 2025 — Microsoft is finally revealing that it will charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10.| Wired: |
Zuckerberg says Meta is training Llama 4 models on a cluster of 100K+ H100 chips, “or bigger than anything that I've seen reported for what others are doing” — The race for better generative AI is also a race for more computing power. On that score, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta appears to be winning.
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| ProPublica: |
An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms that collectively controlled 340+ Pages and placed 160K+ ads to collect users' information — Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism — Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks …
More: Gizmodo, Forbes, and Tech Transparency Project
Bluesky: @bobstarr.bsky.social. X: @propublica, @craigsilverman, @charlesornstein, @propublica, and @ebakerwhite
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta is working with Wonik and GelSight to develop and commercialize tactile sensors for AI, including the Allegro robotic hand and Digit 360 tactile fingertips — Meta says it's partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commercialize tactile sensors for AI.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude apps for Mac and Windows in public beta, and releases a dictation tool for Claude on iOS, Android, and iPadOS — Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps. — Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows today in public beta, which …
More: The Verge, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, and Maginative
X: @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @alexalbert__, @nearcyan, and @quinnypig
| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players — The Call of Duty series has sold more than 500 million copies to date, according to publisher Activision-Blizzard. “Black Ops 6” set launch-day records.| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
A look at X's Election Integrity Community, a feed to “share potential incidents of voter fraud” that has 50K+ members, launched by Elon Musk's America PAC — Elon Musk didn't just get a social network—he got a political weapon. — It's easy to forget that Elon Musk's purchase …
More: Wired, ABA Journal, CNN, and Reuters
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Forums: r/Destiny, r/DeclineIntoCensorship, and r/Twitter
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Waymo was valued at more than $45B, after it raised $5.6B last week, led by Alphabet — - Company is rapidly expanding number of ride-hailing trips … The business said late last week that it had raised $5.6 billion in new capital at an undisclosed value.| John O'Nolan: |
Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years — Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Chinese and Israeli academics predict the AI boom will increase global e-waste by 3% to 12% by 2030, or up to 2.5M metric tons of additional e-waste each year — Most e-waste is never recycled. Data center upgrades for AI projects could significantly add to the problem, researchers say.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based Decart, which lets organizations train massive AI models at scale while reducing costs, raised a $21M seed led by Sequoia and says it's profitable — The Israeli startup has built an AI infrastructure platform that enhances the efficiency of AI models, offering faster … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo launches Nintendo Music, an iOS and Android app that lets Switch Online subscribers stream or download gaming tunes from Nintendo titles — This time, it's a mobile app called Nintendo Music, which lets users listen to classic gaming tunes from Nintendo games spanning the last few decades …
More: Nintendo of America on YouTube, Nintendo Official Site, Tom's Hardware, Android Authority, AppAdvice, Engadget, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, How-To Geek, Music Ally, TechRadar, Screen Rant, Neowin, Gameranx, TechRaptor, Nintendo, 9to5Toys, VG Charts, and Gaming Nexus
Bluesky: @tomwarren.social. X: @nintendoamerica, @shotanakama, @lonelygoomba, @nintendoamerica, @tomwarren, @wario64, and @centroleaks
Forums: r/fuckepic, r/starfox, r/Switch, and Slashdot
| Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Internal memo: Block CEO Jack Dorsey says Tidal is in for another mass layoff; insiders say as many as 100 people could be laid off, or ~25% of Tidal's staff — Block CEO and founder Jack Dorsey wants streaming music app Tidal to operate like a startup again - and that means layoffs| Bloomberg: |
Source: Amazon's target deadline to unveil AI-upgraded Alexa has moved into 2025, after documents showed Amazon planned to unveil the product on Oct. 17, 2024 — Amazon is eager to take on ChatGPT, but technical challenges have forced the company to repeatedly postpone the updated voice assistant's debut.
More: ExtremeTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechHive, and WinBuzzer
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Media Matters: from May to August 2024, the top 30 conservative YouTube channels posted 286 videos containing US election misinformation, racking up 47M+ views — In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States …
More: Popular Science, Reclaim The Net, and Media Matters for America
X: @nicoagrant, @autismcapital, @elonmusk, @gekaminsky, and @zerohedge
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Trump's World Liberty Financial plans to raise ~$30M from investors, down from the $300M it had originally sought, after WLFI token sales fell short — The revised plan to sell only $30 million of WLFI tokens — instead of the originally planned $300 million …
More: CoinGape and Crypto Briefing
| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
A look at VMware one year after Broadcom's acquisition: some customers say costs have risen 300%, Broadcom stopped selling perpetual VMware licenses, and more — Ars speaks with users and partners unhappy with Broadcom's changes. … After closing a $69 billion deal to buy virtualization …
Forums: r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai — The European Union has tossed a spanner in the works of chipmaker Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv-based AI workload management startup Run:ai.| Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $11.2B, above est., gross bookings up 16% YoY to $41B, a $1.1B operating income, above est. and up from $394M in Q3 2023 — Forecast for customer spending on ride-hailing app fell slightly short of Wall Street's estimates
More: Uber, PYMNTS.com, The Times, CNBC, Watcher Guru, Proactive, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Information, Motley Fool, and Business Insider. LinkedIn: John Nelson
| Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against Temu over the alleged sales of non-compliant products and its platform design, like addictive features — The European Union is investigating Chinese e-commerce platform Temu over concerns that it may have failed to limit the sale of illegal products.
More: Silicon Republic, European Commission, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Irish Examiner, Associated Press, The Guardian, UPI, SupplyChainBrain, RTÉ, Le Monde.fr, and Reuters
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