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October 23, 2024, 2:30 AM

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
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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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies  —  - Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022  — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation
Cade Metz / New York Times:
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation  —  Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
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 …
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Qualcomm partners with Google to help automakers develop AI voice assistants and unveils two new chips to power dashboards and self-driving features  —  Qualcomm (QCOM.O) on Tuesday said it was teaming up with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google to offer a combination of chips and software …
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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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps  —  “I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
In its first annual report, Walmart's PhonePe says FY 2024 revenue grew 74% YoY to ~$602M, net losses dropped 28% YoY to ~$237M, and 200M MAUs as of March 2024  —  - PhonePe released its first detailed annual report on Monday  — The fintech saw its loss shrink 28% to about 20 billion rupees
Runway:
Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated characters with realistic facial expressions using video and voice recordings as inputs  —  Act-One can create compelling animations using video and voice performances as inputs.  It represents a significant step forward …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Nikkei Asia:
Huawei launches HarmonyOS 5.0 and says 1B+ devices run on HarmonyOS including smartphones, PCs, and cars, and the OS has 15K+ apps, up 10x from earlier in 2024  —  TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies' Harmony operating system is making inroads overseas, helped by partnerships with players …
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:

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