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Hands-on with Apple's hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2, set for iOS 18.1: hearing aids work well, hearing protection in all modes, and a hearing test — The AirPods Pro 2 will soon offer more robust hearing protection and a new hearing aid feature. But it's the hearing test that has really hooked me.
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Forums: r/apple and r/technology
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more; in a follow-up, an exec said “at the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted” — We declined. … Today's episode of Decoder, well — it's a ride. I'm talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils 10 new AI agents for its enterprise-focused Dynamics 365 apps covering sales, finance, and more, ahead of Salesforce's Agentforce availability — AI agents are reigniting the competition between Microsoft and Salesforce. — Microsoft announced 10 new AI agents …
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of and interview with Tim Cook on being “perfectly fine with not being first”, running Apple, Vision Pro, AI, the Design Studio, group chats, and more — The CEO of the world's most valuable company led two of the biggest product launches of his tenure this year …
More: Gizmodo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, WSJ. Style on YouTube, Quartz, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, Apple Must, Spyglass, UploadVR, iClarified, Entrepreneur, Sherwood News, TechRadar, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Moneycontrol, and Livemint
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tim Cook helped Nike secure Elliott Hill as CEO in September, and has carved out a role as one of Nike's closest outside advisers during a turnaround — - Cook has been on the Nike board since before the first iPhone — Nike is undergoing overhaul with new CEO after revenue misses| João da Silva / BBC: |
ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions — TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Stripe announces it has finalized a deal to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B — Bridge, which has raised $54 million in funding, previously said it aspired to become the blockchain version of Stripe, operating a global system in which other developers could integrate| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
xAI launches an API for “grok-beta” priced at $5 per million input tokens or $15 per million output tokens; it is unclear which AI model “grok-beta” might be — In August, Elon Musk's xAI promised to make Grok, the company's flagship generative AI model powering a number of features on X, available via an API.
Forums: Hacker News
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI startup Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement and say it hasn't replied to a July 2024 letter about copyright issues — News Corp CEO accuses Perplexity of ‘content kleptocracy’ … “Perplexity is a generative artificial intelligence company …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Financial Times, Press Gazette, CNN, Insurance Journal, and Bloomberg Law. Forums: Slashdot
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
IBM launches its open source Granite 3.0 models, including 2B and 8B general purpose versions and Mixture-of-Experts models, aimed at enterprise customers — Make no mistake about it, enterprise AI is big business, especially for IBM. — IBM already has a $2 billion book of business related …
More: IBM, IBM, InfoWorld, Neowin, Business Standard, MarkTechPost, AIM, AI News, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, CRN, Tech Monitor, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, and Tech in Asia
| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks — Prominent cybersecurity company Sophos is acquiring another well-known firm in the industry, Secureworks, for about $859 million, the two companies announced Monday.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD unveils Zen 5-based X3D desktop CPUs, arriving November 7, but offers few details and no price, ahead of Intel's Core Ultra 200-series launch on October 24 — AMD is officially announcing its first next-generation X3D desktop processors today, based on its latest Zen 5 architecture.
More: HotHardware, PCMag, PCWorld, WinBuzzer, ExtremeTech, PC Gamer, and TweakTown. Forums: r/gadgets
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