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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
The Biden administration issues the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI, detailing how the Pentagon and intel agencies should use and protect AI — A national security memorandum detailed how agencies should streamline operations with artificial intelligence safely.
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LinkedIn: Brian Holmes, Ph.D., Stephanie Goutos, Dion Bregman, Adita Karkera, Ph.D., John E. Cummings, Kemal Hawa, Matthew Quinn, and Anjana Rajan
Forums: r/NVDA_Stock, r/aiwars, and r/technology
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities — Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
More: Apple Security Research, Apple, BleepingComputer, The Verge, PCMag, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, SecurityWeek, and Apple on GitHub
Mastodon: @bruienne@infosec.exchange and @cabel@social.panic.com
X: @lorenzofb, @malwarejake, @tqbf, @achivetta, and @radian
LinkedIn: Caleb Sima, Ícaro Magalhães, and Todd Dailey
Forums: r/apple, lobste.rs, and MacRumors Forums
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google will add an AI info section in the image details view of Google Photos, for images edited with tools like Magic Editor and Magic Eraser — There's no putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to generative AI forever shaking our trust in photos, but the tech industry … | Bluesky: |
Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads — Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we've shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Werd I/O, Decrypt, jwz, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, Tech Startups, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, and Engadget
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Mastodon: @danilo@hachyderm.io, @j12t@j12t.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, @bnewbold@social.coop, @pixel@desu.social, and @tante@tldr.nettime.org
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says “we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning”; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs — Apple may not be doing a formal product event this October, but the company is teasing a “week” of Mac announcements starting Monday morning.
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Forums: r/macmini and MacRumors Forums
| Ian Curran / The Irish Times: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn €310M over using personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted ads under GDPR, after a 2018 complaint — Penalty relates to social media platform's processing of its members' data for targeted advertising
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
EU's top court sides with Intel over a once-record €1.06B antitrust fine from 2009, ruling that regulators failed to prove it gave illegal rebates to PC makers — - Top court sides with chipmaker in landmark EU competition case — Separate appeal over a revised EU penalty is still ongoing| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Source: TSMC's US division president said during a webinar that production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher than at similar facilities in Taiwan — - Production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher — The Phoenix plant began trial production earlier this year
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Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and r/neoliberal
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta debuts “quantized” versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek — Meta Platforms Inc. is striving to make its popular open-source large language models more accessible with the release of …
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Forums: r/singularity and lobste.rs
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to an iPhone's Home Screen using their own custom engine in the EU in iOS 18.2 beta 1 — Apple last year introduced the ability for third-party web browsers to add web apps to the iOS Home Screen, a feature that was previously exclusive to Safari.
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic partnership, sets a December 19 deadline; Google planned to invest $2B in 2023 and signed a cloud deal — Google's partnership with AI firm Anthropic is at risk of being derailed in the UK after the competition watchdog called … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches an analysis tool to help Claude write and run JavaScript code, perform calculations, and analyze data from files, in preview — Anthropic's Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. — Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Goodreads' co-founder Otis Chandler launches Smashing, an AI-powered app that aims to create a community around web content and has an AI Questions feature — Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
In a post, Perplexity criticizes media companies that have sued over AI, saying they wish AI tools didn't exist and prefer that corporations own reported facts — Perplexity shot back at media companies skeptical of AI's benefits in a blog post Thursday responding to News Corp's lawsuit filed against the startup earlier this week.| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Filing: Microsoft puts an “assessment of investing in bitcoin” as a voting item for its December 10 shareholder meeting; its board recommends voting against it — - Microsoft placed an “assessment in investing in bitcoin” on the voting ballot ahead of its 2024 annual shareholder meeting in early December.| New York Times: |
Sources: in 2005, Intel CEO Paul Otellini proposed buying Nvidia for $20B, but the board resisted due to concerns over the price tag and integrating Nvidia — A photo illustration of a silicon chip, mounted in a picture frame, on a shelf with cobwebs around it. Kevin Van Aelst
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses AI to organize, archive, or draft emails and handle scheduling and follow-ups, saying it is “coming soon” — Notion, as my colleagues at TechCrunch scooped earlier Thursday, is announcing an email client at its first “Make with Notion” user conference.
More: Platformer, The Verge, and Notion
Mastodon: @caseynewton@mastodon.social. X: @typeoneerror, @techcrunch, @augustbradley, @mfreihaendig, and @notionhq. Forums: Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
General Catalyst raised $8B, the most by a US VC since March 2022, and will put $4.5B in its core funds, $1.5B in creating startups, and $2B in other businesses — General Catalyst has raised $8bn, the largest amount by a US venture capital group in more than two years … | Reuters: |
At an event in Mumbai, Nvidia announces tie-ups with Indian companies including Reliance Industries, and launches a 4B-parameter small language model for Hindi — Chip behemoth Nvidia expanded tie-ups on Thursday with India's big firms, such as Reliance Industries, and launched … | Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Identity verification service provider Socure agrees to acquire Effectiv, which helps businesses manage fraud prevention tools, for $136M in cash and equity — - Platform allows for integration with third party vendors — Firm seeks to combat increasingly sophisticated fraud attacks
More: Socure, Biometric Update, and FinSMEs
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