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Meta disagrees with OSI's definition of open-source AI; Llama doesn't fit the definition due to restrictions on commercial use and lack of training data access (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

Meta disagrees with OSI's definition of open-sourc...

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Apple updates the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad with USB-C; all three have featured the proprietary Lightning port since 2015 (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Apple updates the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and...

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Canada's media regulator grants Google a five-year exemption from the Online News Act, orders it to pay $100M to Canadian Journalism Collective within 60 days (CTV News)

Canada's media regulator grants Google a five-year...

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Microsoft says Google runs "shadow campaigns" to discredit it with regulators in Europe, including organizing an "astroturf group" with European cloud providers (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Microsoft says Google runs "shadow campaigns" to d...

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How GOP figures from Stephen Miller to Elon Musk use lawsuits to silence many groups studying disinfo, like the Stanford Observatory, CCDH, Graphika, NewsGuard (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

How GOP figures from Stephen Miller to Elon Musk u...

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Sierra, an AI startup co-founded by OpenAI board chairman and former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, raised $175M, valuing it at $4.5B, up from ~$1B previously (Reuters)

Sierra, an AI startup co-founded by OpenAI board c...

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Google says its AI Overview summaries will begin rolling out in over 100 countries this week and will reach more than 1B monthly users with this expansion (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google says its AI Overview summaries will begin r...

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OpenAI's CFO: ChatGPT has 250M weekly active users, converts free users to paid at a rate of 5% to 6%, and ~75% of OpenAI's revenue is from paying consumers (Bloomberg)

OpenAI's CFO: ChatGPT has 250M weekly active users...

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Apple says that Apple Intelligence will begin rolling out to EU countries in spring 2025 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple says that Apple Intelligence will begin roll...

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Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 hands-on: a mixed bag with nice Photos updates, useful Type to Siri, a fancy Siri animation, but some features don't work well (John Voorhees/MacStories)

Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 hands-on: a mixed b...

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Source: Meta is working on a search engine that provides conversational answers about current events for Meta AI users, to reduce its reliance on Google (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Source: Meta is working on a search engine that pr...

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Apple launches some Apple Intelligence features like writing tools and notification summaries, as part of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1, released today (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Apple launches some Apple Intelligence features li...

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Apple refreshes the 24" iMac with M4, Thunderbolt 4, 16GB+ of RAM, a nano-texture screen option, and a 12MP webcam, starting at $1,299 and shipping November 8 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

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Armis, which provides risk management tools, raised $200M led by General Catalyst and Alkeon at a $4.2B valuation ahead of a 2026 IPO, and passed $200M in ARR (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)

Armis, which provides risk management tools, raise...

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Netflix adds a Moments feature on iOS, letting users save, rewatch, and share scenes across Instagram, Snapchat, and others, and plans an Android launch soon (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

Netflix adds a Moments feature on iOS, letting use...

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The Open Source Initiative releases version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, after years of collaboration with academia and the industry (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

The Open Source Initiative releases version 1.0 of...

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Robinhood says US users that meet a certain criteria can trade a Kamala Harris or Donald Trump contract via its Robinhood Derivatives unit and ForecastEx (John Melloy/CNBC)

Robinhood says US users that meet a certain criter...

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Loops, a fediverse TikTok competitor, begins accepting signups, plans to become open-source and integrate with ActivityPub, and seeks user donations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Loops, a fediverse TikTok competitor, begins accep...

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