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October 3, 2024, 11:55 PM

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google updates Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile  —  If you can't capture what you want to search for with just a picture, Google Lens will now let you take a video — and even use your voice to ask about what you're seeing.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews for when a user's question has a “commercial angle”, and identifies the ads with a “sponsored” header, on mobile in the US  —  Google is rolling out ads in AI Overviews, which means you'll now start seeing products in some of the search engine's AI-generated summaries.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI gets a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and others, on top of the $6.6B in funding, bringing its liquidity to $10B+  —  OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI's CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now  —  Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users  —  OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016  —  - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says  — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence  —  Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates Shorts with the ability for creators to upload up to three-minute videos, a streamlined Shorts player, templates, and a new trends mobile page  —  YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts.
Google Developers Blog:
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster 1.5 Flash variant with a 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts  —  Today, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, our latest Flash variant, is production-ready and comes with:  —  Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8b …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M  —  AI tends to make things up.  That's unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking  —  Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months  —  ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round …
Pooja Salhotra / The Texas Tribune:
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors' personal info without parental consent; TikTok denies it  —  The attorney general argues that the popular short form video app has not complied with a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active online.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English  —  Google initially rolled out Gemini Live, its conversational AI voice chat, in just one language: English.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Offline Backup, which automatically makes recently streamed and now playing queued songs available as an offline playlist for Premium users  —  Spotify introduced a new feature today called Offline Backup.  This feature for premium users is essentially a list of songs …

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