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Anthropic releases a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can interact with desktop apps by imitating mouse and keyboard input via a “computer use” API, now in beta — In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research …
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Anthropic claims that its new Sonnet 3.5 model scores 49% on SWE-bench Verified, up from 33.4% and “higher than all” public models, and debuts Claude 3.5 Haiku — Today, we're announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku.
More: Neowin. X: @anthropicai, @zck, @robertwiblin, and @anthropicai
LinkedIn: Matthew Harris, Bennie Seybold, Brad Abrams, Lauren Polansky, Thompson Paine, Bridget Sauer, Scott Krenitski, and Krishna Rao
| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up — The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
iPad mini (2024) review: fast A17 Pro chip, delightful size, and Pencil Pro support, but less powerful than other iPads, outdated Touch ID and camera placement — Apple's smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won't feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is working on a new App Store-like app dedicated to games that will integrate with the user's Game Center profile — It's been a month since Apple released iOS 18 to the public, but the company is already working on future software updates. Interestingly, as Apple …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm” — Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …
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Forums: r/technology and r/ElonJetTracker
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies …
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| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs — Chipmaker reported having received order for processor resembling that of Chinese company Huawei
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Penguin Random House, UMG, and SAG-AFTRA join 11.5K+ signatories of an open letter saying the “unlicensed use of creative works” to train AI must not be allowed — Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals' work to train AI models
More: Statement on AI training, TechCrunch, Washington Post, TechRadar, Engadget, The Wrap, Digital Music News, and Stereogum
LinkedIn: Evan Winston and Martin S.
Forums: r/radiohead, r/aiwars, r/indieheads, r/movies, r/TheSmile, and Slashdot
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Source: Polymarket is rechecking user info, especially of big spenders, to make sure users are not US based; user Fredi9999 has bet $18M+ on GOP outcomes so far — - US users are not supposed to be trading on Polymarket — The predictions market has seen a surge in big pro-Trump bets
More: Forbes, Business Insider, Associated Press, The Crypto Times, The Bulwark, Benzinga, Decrypt, CCN.com, Time, crypto.news, and Inc.com
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, an 8B-parameter model that makes 1MP images, and 3.5 Large Turbo, and plans to launch 3.5 Medium on October 29 — Following a string of controversies stemming from technical hiccups and licensing changes, AI startup Stability AI has announced …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Canva releases new generative AI features, including Dream Lab, an image generator powered by Leonardo.ai's Phoenix model; Canva acquired Leonardo.ai in July — Canva has added a bunch of new AI features to its web-based design platform, including updates for generating text and video effects and a more powerful text-to-image app.
More: MakeUseOf, Lifewire, ZDNET, Hindustan Times, PetaPixel, Fast Company, and Capital Brief
| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Asana launches AI Studio in early access, a no-code tool for designing AI agents that can be integrated into teams' existing workflows — Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise across workplaces and industries. From performing admin tasks in meetings to helping with sales calls …
More: Computerworld, Asana, VentureBeat, HackerNoon, and SiliconANGLE
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
OpenAI and Microsoft announce a $10M AI local news project operated by the Lenfest Institute, starting with five US metro news organizations — - “The scale, we think, is significant,” he added. … - The new program is being driven in partnership with The Lenfest Institute's Local …
More: Engadget, Microsoft, Nieman Lab, MediaPost, The Verge, The Wrap, Neowin, AIM, WinBuzzer, and DatacenterDynamics
X: @msftissues, @grove, @openainewsroom, @sarafischer, and @lenfestinst
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app soon, after previously relying on the local contact book, and developed a new IPLS encrypted storage system — WhatsApp announced today a new feature that will allow users to save contacts within the app.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI hires Scott Schools, most recently the chief ethics and compliance officer at Uber, as its chief compliance officer — - Scott Schools previously worked in the US Justice Department — AI startup faces evolving global regulatory landscape
More: The Information, The Hill, TechCrunch, New York Times, and Business Insider
Threads: @kylie.robison. Bluesky: @anildash.com. X: @edzitron, @rsanti97, @sj_manning, and @openainewsroom
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions — America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data.
More: Bloomberg, New Republic, and Business Insider
X: @silvermanjacob and @mediaevan
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/RepublicanValues, and r/politics
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