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October 9, 2024, 11:50 PM
 

October 9, 2024

11:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services
11:40 PM  •
Stefan Boscia / Politico:  The UK's defense ministry is using an AI model created by Palantir to sift through submissions for a comprehensive review of the country's defense capabilities
11:10 PM  •
The Information:  Sources: Sierra, an AI agent startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding led by Greenoaks at a $4B+ valuation
10:50 PM  •
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:  WordPress.org adds a checkbox to confirm users aren't “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” before they log in or register an account
10:20 PM  •
Hayden Field / CNBC:  OpenAI says it has disrupted 20+ operations and deceptive networks in 2024 so far that tried to use its models, including four that had election-related content
9:25 PM  •
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:  Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a “malicious cyberattack”, about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram
8:55 PM  •
CNBC:  Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised $73M+, shuts down after failing to “secure the funding it needed to continue providing service”
8:30 PM  •
Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW:  The US GSA's Login.gov is giving government agencies access to its IAL2-compliant face recognition tech, which compares a user's live selfie with their photo ID
8:05 PM  •
Michael Kan / PCMag:  Florida-based data broker National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admitting its breach that led to the August 2024 SSN leak may impact “hundreds of millions”
7:35 PM  •
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:  A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9
6:55 PM  •
Umar Shakir / The Verge:  Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it”
5:30 PM  •
Cory Weinberg / The Information:  Docs: OpenAI's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100B; losses could hit $14B in 2026, nearly 3x its 2024 losses
5:15 PM  •
CoinDesk:  US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets
4:20 PM  •
Reuters:  FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program
3:50 PM  •
Will Knight / Wired:  Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for 100+ product types on its US mobile website and in its US app
3:40 PM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that lets users create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar with a head and arms from a video they record of themselves
3:10 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not how many see ads in their replies
3:00 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus
2:45 PM  •
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:  Amazon aims to deploy Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval, an AI tool to help drivers quickly find the right package in delivery vans, in 1,000 vans by early 2025
2:05 PM  •
Hayden Field / CNBC:  Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an enterprise LLM trained for just $700K by using synthetic data; a source says Writer is raising up to $200M at a $1.9B valuation
1:10 PM  •
Annie Palmer / CNBC:  Amazon Pharmacy plans to expand same-day prescription delivery to 20 more US cities in 2025, including Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Diego
12:45 PM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference
11:10 AM  •
Anna Washenko / Engadget:  Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, plans to add 15 more countries over the coming weeks, and adds it to its Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK
11:00 AM  •
Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:  Russia's Roskomnadzor bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units on the battlefield in Ukraine
9:55 AM  •
Associated Press:  The All England Club says AI will make “out” and “fault” calls at the Wimbledon tennis championships starting in 2025, replacing line judges, after a 2024 test
9:40 AM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  London-based Basecamp Research, which says its BaseFold model outperforms AlphaFold 2 at predicting proteins, raised a $60M Series B, for $85M in total funding
9:20 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Ring unveils Ring Home Premium for $20 per month, with 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US, and changes its other plans
8:40 AM  •
Liana Baker / Bloomberg:  KKR-owned BMC Software plans to split: BMC for enterprise mainframes and BMC Helix for enterprise software; BMC will get ~66% of BMC Software's $2.3B in revenue
8:10 AM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Glassdoor launches short videos, polls, and images to foster engagement on its platform, and says it has 63M monthly unique users, up from 55M in September 2021
7:25 AM  •
New York Times:  How Withheld for Privacy and other proxy services that help domain operators shield their identities have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity
7:05 AM  •
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:  Microsoft issues Surface Duo 2's final security update ahead of its October 21 end of support; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one major Android update
6:45 AM  •
Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg:  OpenAI says that China-based SweetSpecter tried to phish its employees earlier in 2024, posing as a ChatGPT user to send customer support emails to its staff
6:20 AM  •
Bloomberg:  The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”
5:50 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  A look at disagreements over automation between US dockworkers and shipping industry officials, who say they need AI-powered stacking cranes and other machines
5:20 AM  •
Bloomberg:  CamScanner app maker Intsig is the best-performing China IPO stock in 2024 for $100M+ listings, after a euphoric market response to Beijing's stimulus measures
4:50 AM  •
Sarah Vowell / Washington Post:  A profile of National Archives and Records Administration Chief Innovation Officer Pamela Wright, who leads the agency's project to digitize its 13B+ records
4:10 AM  •
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:  MiniMax, ByteDance, and 01.ai are among a group of Chinese AI startups that have launched AI products overseas, particularly in the US, to boost revenue growth
3:15 AM  •
Laura Dobberstein / The Register:  OpenAI says Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's Chief Revenue Officer, to lead its international expansion
2:30 AM  •
Financial Times:  A look at Ireland's challenges in its role as a data center hub, as energy supply problems and planning hurdles mean that AWS and others are looking elsewhere
2:05 AM  •
Alex Konrad / Forbes:  Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised a $36M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a ~$150M valuation
1:45 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's “altruism versus greed” lawsuit is part of his “blusterous campaign to harass OpenAI for his own competitive advantage”
1:20 AM  •
Reuters:  Turkey blocks access to Discord following a court decision over sufficient suspicion that some users had committed crimes of “child sexual abuse and obscenity”
1:15 AM  •
Allison Johnson / The Verge:  MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “Big” cores and its eighth-gen NPU, claiming “80% faster LLM prompt performance”
12:30 AM  •
Financial Times:  The US DOJ's quest to end Google's long-standing dominance remains the stuff of fantasy, as whatever the courts may order, any real reckoning will take years
12:05 AM  •
Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:  Google says the US DOJ's “radical and sweeping proposals” in the Search antitrust case risk “hurting” consumers, businesses, developers, and US competitiveness
12:00 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  US judges have little modern precedent to guide them on whether a breakup like the one the DOJ is proposing in the Google Search antitrust case is appropriate

October 8, 2024

10:55 PM  •
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:  Filing: the US DOJ lays out “behavioral and structural remedies”, including a breakup, for the federal judge to consider in the Google Search antitrust case
9:50 PM  •
Joel Khalili / Wired:  HBO's documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery says Peter Todd, known for his Bitcoin codebase contributions, is Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Todd denies
8:55 PM  •
Jacob Robbins / PitchBook:  Brazil-based Asaas, which offers SMBs payment processing, invoicing, fraud protection, and other financial services, raised a $148M Series C led by Bond Capital
8:15 PM  •
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:  Anthropic launches Message Batches API in beta, for batches of up to 10K queries that are processed within 24 hours and cost 50% less than standard API calls
6:25 PM  •
Pew Research Center:  US adults on TikTok follow influencers and creators popular on social media but very few politicians, civic actors, or traditional media outlets and journalists
5:20 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  The Biden-Harris administration launches a White House account on Reddit for news and info about federal government work; the first posts cover Hurricane Helene
5:15 PM  •
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:  Marketing tech company Zeta Global agrees to acquire LiveIntent, another marketing tech provider, for $250M in cash and stock, in a deal set to close in Q4 2024
4:55 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes the return of X after the company complied with its demands, including taking down some accounts and appointing a legal rep
4:30 PM  •
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:  Samsung removes the Galaxy Z Fold2, which launched in September 2020 for $2,000, from its list of devices that will receive security updates
2:42 PM  •
Washington Post:  ISD: top officials in NC and at FEMA responding to Hurricane Helene face antisemitic attacks largely on X, where 10 of the posts collectively drew 17.1M views
1:55 PM  •
Helen Reid / Reuters:  Filing: Shein's UK business made £1.55B in 2023 revenue, up 38% over a 16-month period to the end of 2022, as the fast fashion group prepares for a London IPO
12:50 PM  •
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:  Study: X moves slowly to remove AI-made nudes reported as nonconsensual intimate media, if at all, but is quick if they're reported for copyright violations
12:25 PM  •
Sara Fischer / Axios:  OpenAI signs a content deal with Hearst to use content from 40+ local newspapers and 20+ magazines in its products, after Condé Nast and Dotdash Meredith deals
12:15 PM  •
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:  Snap says it is bringing Sponsored Snaps to Snapchat's Chat tab for the first time, starting with ad partner Disney, and launches “Promoted Places” on Snap Map
11:55 AM  •
Kris Holt / Engadget:  Rockstar plans to bring Red Dead Redemption to PC, 14 years after its PS3 and Xbox 360 debut, via the Rockstar Store, Epic Games Store, and Steam on October 29
11:50 AM  •
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:  An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza
11:40 AM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Meta begins rolling out new AI tools that let advertisers expand the aspect ratio of their videos and generate an Instagram Reel video ad from a static image
10:18 AM  •
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:  A bipartisan coalition of 14 US state AGs file lawsuits accusing TikTok of damaging minors' mental health and collecting their data without parental consent
9:55 AM  •
Sarah Wynn / The Block:  Crypto.com sues the US SEC after receiving a Wells notice that the agency plans to bring an enforcement action against it; Consensys sued the SEC in April 2024
9:50 AM  •
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:  Adobe launches a Content Authenticity web app to let creators use its Content Credentials “nutrition labels” to apply attribution and opt out of AI training
9:30 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Bellevue, Washington-based Auger, founded by ex-Amazon and Flexport exec Dave Clark to offer AI-powered supply chain tools, raised a $100M seed led by Oak HC/FT
9:21 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Short seller Hindenburg Research releases a report accusing Roblox of inflating user metrics to investors and prioritizing growth over child safety
9:10 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Las Vegas-based TensorWave, which offers cloud-based access to AMD MI300X chips for AI workloads, raised $43M led by Nexus VP at a $100M post-money valuation
8:35 AM  •
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:  EvenUp, a startup making AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $135M Series D led by Bain Capital at a $1B+ valuation and says it has 1,000+ clients
7:05 AM  •
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:  TrendForce: TSMC's global foundry revenue share will hit ~64% in 2024, up from 51% in 2019, while Samsung's share is set to drop to ~10%, down from 16% in 2019
6:50 AM  •
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:  Uber announces an EV-only Uber Green in 40 cities that riders can prioritize, a GPT-4o-powered chatbot coming in 2025 to answer drivers' EV questions, and more
6:30 AM  •
Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg:  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning
6:15 AM  •
Chris Miller / Financial Times:  Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the West must take hardware security more seriously, especially as most electronics manufacturing has shifted to Asia
5:55 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Filing: Saudi Arabia's PIF sold ~17.3M Nintendo shares from August 21 to October 1, lowering its stake to 7.54%; on September 26, an exec said PIF may buy more
5:40 AM  •
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:  Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA
4:35 AM  •
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:  Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company plans to build a plant in Mexico's Guadalajara to make Nvidia GB200 Blackwell AI servers, as tech decouples from China
2:00 AM  •
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:  Online gig platforms seek to increase their “take rates” amid slowing growth; PitchBook: Fiverr and Upwork are trading at less than 20% of their pandemic peaks

October 7, 2024

11:35 PM  •
Will Knight / Wired:  A look at OpenAI's ongoing talent exodus, seeming shift in hiring priorities, deep bench of young talent, and the intensifying competition to hire the next wave
10:15 PM  •
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:  MoneyGram says hackers “accessed and acquired” some customers' personal and transaction data, including SSNs, during a cyberattack between September 20 and 22
9:15 PM  •
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:  Samsung Electronics issues a rare apology for posting disappointing preliminary Q3 results and plans to review its organizational culture and processes
8:45 PM  •
Reuters:  Samsung estimates Q3 operating profit up 274% YoY to ~$6.78B, falling short of analysts' estimates of ~$7.66B, as it lags rivals in the booming AI chip market
8:10 PM  •
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:  Two Russian YouTube channels posted videos of an alleged new 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro base model, in what could be the worst Apple product leak since the iPhone 4
7:50 PM  •
Sarah Young / Reuters:  The UK launches a Regulatory Innovation Office to speed up the approval of synthetic biology and biotech, space tech, AI in health care, and autonomous drones
5:50 PM  •
Digiday:  TikTok launches Smart+, an AI-powered ad tool that takes on Google's Performance Max and Meta's Advantage+, automating creative, ad targeting, and optimization
4:30 PM  •
Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:  Google says it will appeal the Epic Games verdict, as “Apple and Android clearly compete” and the ruling will cause “unintended consequences” for US consumers
4:18 PM  •
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:  A US federal judge has given the FTC the green light to pursue antitrust claims against Amazon, but ruled that some claims under state laws won't move forward
4:18 PM  •
Bloomberg:  A US bankruptcy judge approves repaying FTX customers, and FTX is in talks over $1B in seized US assets; in June 2024, FTX had $12.6B, which may rise to $16.5B
4:15 PM  •
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:  Experts have long warned “secure backdoor” systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon's reported hack of US ISPs' wiretap systems exemplifies the risks of backdoors
4:14 PM  •
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:  As Meta proudly unveils AI tools, Facebook users find feeds clogged with AI junk, even when Facebook is needed as a civic resource to coordinate disaster relief
3:17 PM  •
Sean Hollister / The Verge:  Epic v. Google: a US judge orders Google to open the Play Store to rivals from November 1 for three years, distribute third-party stores within Play, and more
1:40 PM  •
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:  Apple's macOS 15.0.1 Sequoia, released on October 3, fixed the macOS 15 bug that broke some third-party security tools, including from CrowdStrike and Microsoft
12:35 PM  •
Charles Duhigg / New Yorker:  A deep dive into Chris Lehane, super PACs like Fairshake, and some Silicon Valley executives' political savagery, effectively targeting Katie Porter and others
11:55 AM  •
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:  US SEC filing: KoBold Metals, which uses ML to sift through datasets to identify large deposits of various minerals, has raised $491M of a targeted $527M round
10:25 AM  •
Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:  How Malaysia's Johor went from a backwater to having one of the world's biggest AI data center construction projects, with an estimated ~$3.8B invested in 2024
9:55 AM  •
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:  SCOTUS rejects X's appeal over Special Counsel Jack Smith's secret DOJ search warrant for records related to Donald Trump's account and upholds a $350K fine
8:35 AM  •
Olesia Safronova / Bloomberg:  Ukraine says the country's hackers carried out a cyberattack that took down the online broadcasts of 20+ Russian broadcasters on Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday
7:45 AM  •
Reuters:  Samsung says it is not interested in spinning off its contract chip manufacturing business; sources say it has struggled to win big orders to fill chip capacity
7:10 AM  •
Philip Heijmans / Bloomberg:  UN report: cybercrime syndicates raked in up to $37B in 2023 and are growing in Southeast Asia, including in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos, despite police efforts
6:45 AM  •
New York Times:  How Chinese e-commerce companies like Pinduoduo pushing to lower prices are making China's deflation worse; HSBC says ~60% of Chinese consumers use e-commerce
6:20 AM  •
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:  The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 agree to a deal with Amazon to put free streamer Freely, developed by joint venture Everyone TV, on Amazon's smart TVs
6:05 AM  •
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:  SportQuake: crypto companies, exempt from tighter gambling rules, have spent a record of almost £130M on Premier League sponsorship deals for the 2024/25 season
5:40 AM  •
Washington Post:  Investigation: police in 15 US states used facial recognition in 1,000+ cases since 2020 and routinely failed to tell defendants about their use of the software
3:55 AM  •
Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times:  Dealroom: US VCs provided 65% of VC money for European defense startups in 2024, up from 18% in 2023, for $458M total YTD, or 3x+ more than in any prior year
1:30 AM  •
John Foley / Financial Times:  Among US companies founded in the past 20 years, only Meta and Uber have become “scale insurgent”, with $10B in annual revenue and $1B of operating cash flow

October 6, 2024

11:00 PM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, AWS' AI chatbot Q, shutting down services, investing in open source, open sourcing projects, and more
9:00 PM  •
Max Tani / Semafor:  Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added 1M+ paid subscribers over the past year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid
3:20 PM  •
Financial Times:  A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 at an estimated $22B, as the edtech startup faces insolvency and Indian and US lawsuits
12:50 PM  •
Justine Calma / The Verge:  Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors, which provide steady “baseload” power, as their carbon emissions climb due to AI tools
10:15 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: Apple aims to debut iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence on October 28 and unveil a new iPad mini and Macs in late October; some could ship from November 1
8:10 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lapsus$ member who leaked GTA VI videos in 2022 and was found guilty in 2023 of hacking Nvidia, Uber, and others
5:05 AM  •
Reuters:  Some US ride-hailing drivers are using Teslas with FSD as makeshift robotaxis, saying FSD lets them work longer hours by reducing stress, amid safety concerns
2:00 AM  •
Isabel Hilton / Yale E360:  Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, is struggling to meet its chip industry's energy demands; TSMC uses ~9% of Taiwan's electricity
1:40 AM  •
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:  Amkor and TSMC sign an MOU to collaborate on advanced chip packaging for AI, HPC, PC, and mobile processors at Amkor's planned $1.6B facility in Peoria, Arizona

October 5, 2024

11:25 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  eMarketer expects Google's share of the US search ad market to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, Apple, and others make gains
7:25 PM  •
Matteo Wong / The Atlantic:  Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, about OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more
5:10 PM  •
SemiAnalysis:  A deep dive into “AI Neoclouds”, a new breed of cloud compute providers built to offer GPU rentals, like Crusoe, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave, and their economics
3:01 PM  •
Wes Davis / The Verge:  Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock
1:55 PM  •
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:  Grindr is testing an AI “wingman” that would let users track conversations with their “favorite” users, recommend long-term relationship candidates, and more
12:45 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  An interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney about how the company became “financially sound”, Unreal Engine 6, building a “persistent universe” with Disney, and more
11:45 AM  •
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:  Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 20.2% YoY to ~$57.3B, vs ~$55.4B est., on strong AI server demand; consumer electronics revenue, including iPhones, was flat YoY
9:40 AM  •
Emma Roth / The Verge:  Matt Mullenweg says WordPress.org “belongs to me”, as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, the WordPress Foundation, and Automattic
8:40 AM  •
Alan Suderman / Associated Press:  A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021
5:35 AM  •
Wency Chen / South China Morning Post:  How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village where merchants struck gold during the livestream ecommerce boom on Douyin, Kuaishou, and other apps, became a ghost town
2:30 AM  •
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:  A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral for its AI-generated “deep dive” podcasts with two hosts
1:20 AM  •
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:  An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-off, hands-off driving system, but does not provide a timeline for when it might become publicly available
12:50 AM  •
Jeff Stone / Bloomberg:  Cyber Crimes Center, a division of the US DHS, says it has disrupted 500+ ransomware attacks and seized $4.3B in crypto since 2021, including $180M in 2023
12:05 AM  •
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:  Google ramps up efforts to integrate AI across its products in India, where it has 700M to 800M users, including launching Gemini Live in nine Indian languages

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