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November 7, 2023, 3:00 PM

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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
An analysis of OpenAI's DevDay keynote: impressive live demos, the shift from plugins to custom GPTs, Microsoft's role in making GPT-4 Turbo cheaper, and more  —  In 2013, when I started Stratechery, there was no bigger event than the launch of the new iPhone; its only rival was Google I/O …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple last week paused developing iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 to fix bugs and improve performance, and plans to resume work this week  —  - Rare move designed to focus on improving quality, performance  — Despite pause, software releases will likely stay on schedule
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Ahead of former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony, documents and sources detail staff debates over fostering growth while protecting young users  —  A former engineering and product leader at Meta is expected to testify in Congress about how Meta ignored warnings about youth safety
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The Tech Coalition, which includes Discord, Google, Meta, Roblox, Snap, and Amazon, unveil Lantern to share “signals” about child sexual exploitation and abuse  —  The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation …
Brian Fung / CNN:
Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta execs ignored warnings about harms to teens, using carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue  —  Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
A recap of day one of the Epic v. Google antitrust trial; opening statements, Epic Games Store GM Steve Allison revealing the store isn't profitable, and more  —  The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Docs: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and had trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios, prior to its California permitting crisis  —  In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
An interview with Blizzard President Mike Ybarra about the studio's future under Microsoft, wrestling over releasing a game without live components, and more  —  Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio's future. … The dust is finally starting to settle from Microsoft's huge acquisition …
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Google pushes an update for Pixel phones fixing security bugs and an Android 14 storage bug locking some owners, who use multiple profiles, out of their devices  —  Google's “solution” can't do anything for bootlooping devices.  —  It's the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch.
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Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg:
WeWork's bankruptcy caps a years-long saga for Masayoshi Son, who overrode lieutenants' objections to hand Adam Neumann billions, losing SoftBank over $11.5B  —  - Co-working space's bankruptcy highlights billionaire's hubris  — Few checks on SoftBank CEO as he prepares to go on offensive
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$2.2B and profit down 19% YoY to ~$603M, both above est.; Switch sales from April to September grew 2% YoY to 6.84M  —  - Nintendo reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday as it continues to get a bump from the …

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