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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving the company after six and a half years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration” — OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after six and a half years.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/ChatGPT, and r/news
| Reuters: |
Sources: Sam Altman will receive equity in OpenAI for the first time, as it plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with Meta's Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.” — I wore Mark Zuckerberg's contact lenses.
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Threads: @lanceulanoff, @pkafka, and @jonlax
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LinkedIn: Bo-Huei Lin, Jeremy Snodgrass, Darin Dishneau, Scott Stein, Naamah Argaman, Mudit Goel, and Mingfei Yan
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors — Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform?
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Threads: @navneetalang, @neil.cybart, @filipe.esposito, @kbode, @laurengoode, @eshumarneedi, @sung.kim.mw, @robsherman, @jackcarterbenjamin, @parkerortolani, and @tomwarrenuk. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
X: @bilawalsidhu, @sdw, @_danielsinclair, @arian_ghashghai, @reduzio, @heaney555, @dylanmcd8, @bengeskin, @edludlow, @meta, @meta, @jiteshubrani, @boztank, @jiteshubrani, @meta, @benbajarin, and @ballmatthew
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Brent Harris, Rohit Sonwalkar, Steve Fuertes, and Nirav Shah
Forums: r/singularity, r/augmentedreality, and Slashdot
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company's Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday.
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Threads: @boztank, @vicmsong, @seanhollister, @ambich0o, @tomwarrenuk, and @vishwanathsarang. Mastodon: @podcast@livingblindfully …
| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more — Meta's CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he's done with politics, and more.
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Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online and @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
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X: @aianddesign, @benthompson, @sadlyitsbradley, @loudmouthjulia, @canadakaz, @benbajarin, @parismartineau, @eric_seufert, @mgsiegler, @hmltn, @benthompson, @loudmouthjulia, @mikeisaac, @martyswant, @anshelsag, @minimaxir, @benthompson, @sadlyitsbradley, @joejerome, @ballmatthew, @rachelmetz, and @jiteshubrani. LinkedIn: Heath Black
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| David Lumb / CNET: |
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones — The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people's phones... and potentially smaller accessories, too.
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X: @simonw, @simonw, @simonw, @drjimfan, @saboo_shubham_, @benbajarin, @ajassy, and @aravsrinivas. Forums: Hacker News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ — Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it's a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft lowers its FY 2024-25 bookings forecast to €1.95B, vs. €2.42B est., and delays Assassin's Creed Shadows to February 14, 2025; UBI closes down 4.52% — Ubisoft Entertainment SA updated its financial targets as it delayed the hotly-anticipated Assassin's Creed Shadows video …
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The FTC announces a crackdown on “deceptive AI claims and schemes” by companies including legal services firm DoNotPay, which claimed to offer a “robot lawyer” — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a crackdown on what the regulator called …
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X: @lefthanddraft, @rcalo, @robertfreundlaw, and @robertfreundlaw
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney officially launches its password-sharing crackdown, letting users add an “Extra Member” for $6.99/month for Disney+ Basic, or $9.99 for Disney+ Premium — The company rolled out what it is calling its paid sharing policy this week, letting users add a member outside their household …
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Forums: r/television, r/cordcutters, and r/DisneyPlus
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Google files an EU antitrust complaint alleging Microsoft engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on products like Windows — Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
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X: @lewis_crofts, @florian4gamers, and @florian4gamers
LinkedIn: Darren Mowry, Jean-Marin Schlaich, and Amit Zavery
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 — In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
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Threads: @crumbler, @vishwanathsarang, @renee.diresta, and @drewpusateri
X: @safety and @daithaigilbert
Forums: r/Twitter and r/inthenews
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: lighter and comfortable with improved ANC and transparency, but underwhelming Gemini Live and no high-quality Bluetooth codecs — With a slew of improvements led by a far more comfortable design, Google's latest earbuds are a compelling upgrade for Pixel owners.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Over 100 companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, signed the EU's AI Pact for “voluntary pledges” before the AI Act; Apple and Meta did not — The European Commission has revealed a list of the first 100-plus signatories to the AI Pact … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Micron reports Q4 revenue up 93% YoY to $7.75B, vs. $7.66B est., forecasts Q1 revenue and profit above estimates, helped by AI demand; MU jumps 13%+ after hours — - Company's high-bandwidth memory helps train AI systems — Forecast for sales and profit comes in well ahead of estimates| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China-linked hackers have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive info, in a campaign investigators call Salt Typhoon — It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China — Hackers linked to the Chinese government … | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent — Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
More: noyb, Engadget, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, Neowin, and Nairametrics
Forums: r/privacy, r/technews, and r/linux
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June — Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24.
More: News.ng, DomainInvesting.com, and NamePros
Threads: @jbillinson, @crumbler, and @creativenewman
X: @dinvesting and @mattrosoff
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Reddit rolls out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ other countries on the mobile web, its apps, and desktop — Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new locales in Europe, Asia and Latin America …
More: How-To Geek, CNET, Reddit Upvoted, Android Headlines, Engadget, Business Insider, TechRadar, and MediaPost. LinkedIn: Durgesh Kaushik
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces seven more games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games — Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.
More: PlayStation.Blog, IGN, TweakTown, PlayStation.Blog, PlayStation.Blog, and MobileSyrup
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267 — It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. — Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps — Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal — Amid debate on whether tech companies are overspending on AI, Google's pricey reunion with Noam Shazeer draws attention
More: PYMNTS.com, Entrepreneur, Quartz, New York Post, and The Daily Beast
X: @grady_booch and @rolfewinkler
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