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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta debuts Code Llama, which can generate code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use — Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said.
More: Meta, Meta, GitHub, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Reuters, VentureBeat, Cointelegraph, nft now, iPhone in Canada Blog, Search Engine Journal, The Decoder, Voicebot.ai, Neowin, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, and Wired
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LinkedIn: Justin Gerrard, Amit Sangani, Will Knight, Adnan Boz, Sahar Mor, Jia Li, and Sam Burgoyne. Forums: Hacker News
| Brendan Case / Bloomberg: |
Walmart partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials — - Project boosts aerial range capabilities for the retailer — Service will be offered at two stores in the Dallas area
More: Walmart Inc., Wing Blog, Forbes, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, CNET, SlashGear, TechCrunch, and Mashable
Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social and @rlux.nyc
LinkedIn: Leah Debes, Cosimo Leipold, and Phillip J. Wallace
| Irregular Ideas: |
We are at the tail end of the first wave of LLM-based AI, which outperforms the average human in some tasks but is not good enough and is expensive to train — On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign I had never seen before …
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| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Research teams from Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco use AI and electrodes to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar — Scientists use electrodes and AI programs to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar
More: Nature, Nature, Mashable, WinBuzzer, The Guardian, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, and International Business Times
| VideoCardz.com: |
MSI shares an unlisted video confirming Intel's upcoming 14th Gen CPUs will see no major core count upgrades and will be 3% faster on average than 13th Gen CPUs — MSI unimpressed with 14th Gen Core series — MSI made a mistake of sharing an unlisted video which has now leaked out.
More: Forbes, Club386, KnowTechie, The Verge, ExtremeTech, Guru3D.com, Digital Trends, Neowin, Wccftech, Mashable, and TechPowerUp
Forums: r/hardware, r/pcgaming, and r/intel
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: TikTok plans to bar links to e-commerce sites like Amazon, to force users to buy via TikTok Shop; a source says Shop will lose $500M+ in the US in 2023 — The cost of TikTok's online shopping expansion in the U.S. is beginning to add up. — TikTok Shop, the app's nascent shopping service …
More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, Insider Intelligence, Tech Xplore, TechNode, The Economic Times, AdExchanger, KrASIA, Tech in Asia, Insider, and The Verge
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its “all the space you need” storage plan to 5TB, after some abused the tier by pooling storage, reselling, and more — - Company says some abused ‘all the space you need’ policy — Majority of users will see storage capped at 5 terabytes| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Epic Games debuts the Epic First Run program, offering developers 100% of net revenue for six months if they launch PC games exclusively on the Epic Games Store — Games and apps in the Epic First Run program will also benefit from extra exposure on the storefront.
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LinkedIn: Steve Allison and Ben Board
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Q&A with Phil Spencer on Game Pass, Microsoft's mobile focus, streaming story-based games like Starfield on mobile, Xbox generations, console prices, and more — Phil Spencer on new hardware, price drops, mid-gen refreshes - and why the company won't ditch Series S. — Interview by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief
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Forums: r/XboxSeriesS and r/XboxSeriesX
| Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal: |
Shein acquires ~33% of Forever 21 parent company Sparc and Sparc takes a Shein minority stake, letting Shein sell Forever 21 items and operate inside its stores — Online fashion giant invests in company that operates retailer, paving way to sell its products — Shein and Forever 21 may soon be fast-fashion friends.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
To comply with the EU's DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more info on EU targeted ads, give researchers more access, and more — Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work … | Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut 7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021 — T-Mobile USA Inc. is cutting 7% of its staff, part of an effort to rein in costs as the company spends heavily to attract …
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple voices its support for California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote 38-0 in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote — In a surprise move, Apple this week penned a letter to California state senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, voicing support for SB 244 …
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Forums: r/StallmanWasRight, Beehaw, and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M — As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Study: 30 sites showed nearly 150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes in May 2023, up 9x since 2019, totaling 3.8B views, enabled by services from Big Tech companies — To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft| David Gewirtz / ZDNet: |
Google announces new security features for Workspace, including zero-trust, data loss prevention, and digital sovereignty controls, rolling out in 2023 and 2024 — Google Workspace, your most secure choice in productivity suites, will be getting even more secure.| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
WBD plans to launch CNN Max, a 24/7 stream pulled from CNN's US and international feeds alongside some original content, in “open beta” on September 27 on Max — - Netflix Added 2.6M U.S. Subscribers In July, Continuing Advertising Momentum Amid Password-Sharing Crackdown, Study Finds
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X: @streamonmax, @jimsciutto, and @sarafischer
| Nathan McAlone / Insider: |
OnlyFans reports revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B in the FY to November 30, 2022, profit up 24% YoY to $404M, creators up 47% YoY to 3.2M, and users spent $5.6B — - The OnlyFans business is still booming. — OnlyFans users spent $5.6 billion on the platform in 2022, up from $4.8 billion in 2021.
More: Bloomberg, The Information, Financial Times, Variety, London Evening Standard, and GOV.UK
X: @chriskeene, @mhbergen, and @librarythingtim
| Associated Press: |
Uber raises the minimum age requirement for new ride-hailing California drivers to 25, but not Uber Eats, citing the rising costs of commercial auto insurance — Uber raised the minimum age requirement for most of its new drivers in California to 25 on Thursday under rules the company … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Luna on LG's smart TVs released between 2021 and 2023 and running webOS 6.0+, after debuting Luna on Samsung's smart TVs in August 2022 — LG is teaming up with Amazon to bring the Amazon Luna cloud-based game streaming service on its smart TVs.
More: 9to5Google, AFTVnews, Amazon Luna, Eurogamer.net, PR Newswire, ZDNet, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Abraham Augustine / TechCabal: |
Toronto-based LemFi, which offers immigrants remittances and other payment services, raised a $33M Series A led by Left Lane, taking its total funding to ~$34M — On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding …
More: WeeTracker, FinTech Global, LemFi, and Techpoint Africa
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