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Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary (Associated Press)

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Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment adviser to tap private markets, joining Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and other VC firms that made a similar move (Bloomberg)

Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment a...

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Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment adviser to tap private markets, joining Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and other VC firms that made a similar move (Bloomberg)

Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment a...

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Brain-computer interface company Science Corporation says its retinal implant, which has a 2mm chip, let some blind people read, play cards, and recognize faces (Emily Mullin/Wired)

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Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $285M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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A US federal jury awards Apple $250, finding that Masimo's smartwatches infringed Apple Watch design patents; Apple sought statutory minimum damages (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)

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The US Copyright Office denies a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives, and museums lend games via remote access for study (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Sources: Google is aiming to release its Gemini 2.0 model in December; the model isn't showing the performance gains the Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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Source: Perplexity CEO told staff in 2023 that it had acquisition offers from X, OpenAI, and Notion, in the $150M to $200M range; Microsoft was also interested (Kevin Mclaughlin/The Information)

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A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel prot&eacut...

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Sources: the Trump campaign was informed that Chinese hackers may have gained access to data from phones of Trump and JD Vance, via a hack of Verizon systems (New York Times)

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Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tet...

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OpenAI says it doesn't have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year but plans "to release a lot of other great technology" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Apple tested an app to help people with prediabetes manage their food intake and make lifestyle changes, as part of its push into blood-sugar features (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Q3 China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% YoY to 68.8M; Vivo grew 21.5% for a 18.6% marketshare, Apple fell 0.3% to a 15.6% share, Huawei grew 42% to 15.3% share (IDC)

Q3 China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% YoY to 68....

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Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday (André Beganski/Decrypt)

Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $2...

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Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M a year ago; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ...

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