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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 …
More: OpenAI, CNET, Android Police, InfoWorld, Wired, Windows Central, ITPro, HackerNoon, Tech.co, Digital Trends, Geek News Central Podcast, TechRepublic, and TechCrunch
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
| 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
More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, Forbes, Neowin, Supercharged, and BGR
X: @markgurman and @stevemoser
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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
More: Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Engadget, BBC, CNBC, Hartford Courant, and Public Citizen
Threads: @drewharwell. X: @marshablackburn, @vaishnavi, @jason_kint, @franceshaugen, @zsk, @ttp_updates, @franceshaugen, and @_andyburrows
| 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 …
More: Tech Coalition, The Verge, Meta, and Neowin
| 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.
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X: @swiftstories, @swiftstories, @playerign, and @florian4gamers
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| 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 …
More: Gizmodo, Robotics & Automation News, Silicon Republic, Forbes, The Verge, and CNBC
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| Cyrus Farivar / Forbes: |
More: TechCrunch, San Francisco Business Times, CNBC, Engadget, Digital Trends, and Reuters. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Nikkei Asia: |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company's 18A chip design will move into test production by Q1 2024, part of its bet to reclaim chipmaking leadership by 2025 — Chipmaker is chasing Samsung and TSMC as Qualcomm and Apple pose fresh challenge — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says his company's … | 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 …
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| 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.
More: Android Open Source Project, PCMag, Tom's Guide, HotHardware, T3, TechRadar, Android Authority, The Verge, PhoneArena, and Android Police. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
IBM debuts a $500M enterprise AI venture fund, to invest in startups across stages, with no set target of annual investments or capital deployment timeline — IBM is dedicating $500 million to invest in generative AI startups focused on business customers.
More: IBM, VentureBeat, The Information, Cointelegraph, AIN.Capital, and WRAL TechWire. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
European Parliament lawmakers approve political ad rules forcing Meta, Google, and others to clearly label such ads, who paid, how much, and for which elections — Big Tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political advertising on their platforms … | Katie Paul / Reuters: |
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LinkedIn: David Lavine, TG ✨Gergely Teglasy, and Jerry Nevins
| 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
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
A look at Neuralink: more coverage than rivals and neuroscientists worried over hype, but its FDA-approved trial is exciting and its tech potentially miraculous — Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people's heads—and not just figuratively. — Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career.
More: The Messenger, Insider, and New York Post
| Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Google Photos' Magic Editor will now refuse to edit photos of ID cards, human faces and body parts, receipts, and other images of personally identifiable info — - Code within the latest version of Google Photos includes specific error messages that highlight the edits that Magic Editor will refuse to do.| CNBC: |
Cloud monitoring company Datadog's stock jumps ~30% after reporting Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $547.5M, vs. $524.1M est., and forecasting Q4 sales above estimates — - Datadog surged nearly 30% in Tuesday trading after the company reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings and full-year guidance.
More: SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, The Motley Fool, Tomasz Tunguz, Reuters, Barron's Online, and KNSD-TV
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.3B, a $221M net income, gross bookings up 21% YoY to $35.3B, trips up 25% YoY to 2.4B, and a record 6.5M drivers — Revenue was up 11 percent from a year earlier, helping to generate $221 million in net income. — Uber on Tuesday reported financial results …
More: Uber, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Information, PhocusWire, and Barron's Online. X: @economyapp
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub previews for YC startups a new Nvidia GPU cluster option for AI in Azure and aims to expand access to startups in M12 — In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” resources from its Azure cloud for developing AI models.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Shein aims for an $80B to $90B valuation in its US IPO, vs. a $50B to $60B valuation in recent private trades; Shein was valued at $100B in April 2022 — - Timing of Shein's IPO remains uncertain given volatile market — Valuation dropped to $50 billion in recent private trades
More: The Information, TechCrunch, The Messenger, TechStartups, Financial Times, and Tech in Asia. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 …
More: Dexerto, Video Games Chronicle, Bloomberg, Video Games Chronicle, Nintendo - Investor Relations, RTÉ, GameSpot, Wccftech, KNSD-TV, GamesIndustry.biz, TechSpot, VentureBeat, IGN, Associated Press, Game Developer, Kotaku, and Reuters
X: @oatmealdome, @deeketweak, @deeketweak, @deeketweak, and @domsplaying
LinkedIn: Richard King and Paolo Dal Santo
| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp rolls out the ability to search for messages by date in its web client, to those enrolled in its beta program — WhatsApp is releasing a new search message by date feature to some beta testers who previously joined the official beta program of WhatsApp Web, making it easier …
More: Android Headlines, The News International, Times of India, Gadgets 360, Android Police, and Tuko.co.ke. X: @sahilk
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