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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help NYT was "to provide technical infra support" and "not to replace journalists or engineers" amid push back (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Google, Temasek, and Bain: online spending in Southeast Asia will reach $263B in 2024, up 15% YoY, the lowest growth rate since at least 2017, amid inflation (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Canadian authorities arrested Alexander "Connor" Moucka, who is allegedly behind hacks in June and July of up to 165 Snowflake customers including AT&T (Bloomberg)

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Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of A...

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Meta is extending its ban on new political ads past Election Day in the US, "until later this week" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Robinhood, Kraken, and others unveil the Global Dollar Network to accelerate stablecoin usage and launch USDG, a Paxos-issued stablecoin pegged to the US dollar (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

Robinhood, Kraken, and others unveil the Global Do...

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Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG's office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses with Atlas, an internal study of products currently on the market, led by its Product Systems Quality team (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Source: Meta informed ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after polls close (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election (NBC News)

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Sources: ByteDance's international revenue grew 60%+ YoY to about $17B in H1 2024, and overall revenue grew 35% to about $73B, after growing 40% in H1 2023 (The Information)

Sources: ByteDance's international revenue grew 60...

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Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates "spoiler-free and concise summaries" of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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T-Mobile to use OpenAI tech for a customer service bot slated for next year that can refer to customer-specific data, and will pay OpenAI $100M over three years (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

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Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to $725.5M, vs. $701.1M est., and raises 2024 revenue forecast again on robust AI adoption; PLTR jumps 11%+ after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)

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ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a "Google killer" (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it'...

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The second developer beta of iOS 18.2 shows a "daily limit" for free access to "advanced" ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

The second developer beta of iOS 18.2 shows a "dai...

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Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku, but it is priced at $1 per million input tokens, up 4x from Claude 3.0 Haiku's price, and lacks image analysis features (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku, but it is pri...

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