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A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames "a bug in the initial code for benchmarking", after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Google says it'll stop linking to news content and cut ties with news orgs in New Zealand if the country passes law forcing digital platforms to pay for content (Lucy Craymer/Reuters)

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CCData: Binance's share of digital asset trading volume fell to 36.6% in September, down from 42.7% at the start of 2024, the lowest level in four years (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors' personal information without parental consent (Pooja Salhotra/The Texas Tribune)

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly viol...

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Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple's first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

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Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster variant of 1.5 Flash, with 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts (Google Developers Blog)

Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and...

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The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Ru...

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OpenAI launches a new canvas ChatGPT interface in beta that opens a separate window beside the normal chat window for writing and coding projects (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

OpenAI launches a new canvas ChatGPT interface in ...

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How Sam Altman concentrated his power at OpenAI since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; sources: burnout has become a key issue for some employees (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

How Sam Altman concentrated his power at OpenAI si...

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Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews when a user's question has a "commercial angle", and identifies the ads with a "sponsored" header, on mobile in the US (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Google updates Lens to let users take a video or use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google updates Lens to let users take a video or u...

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Zepz, the money transfer service formerly called WorldRemit and valued at $5B in 2021, raised $267M to fund an expansion in its core African markets and beyond (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

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Google Search rolls out "Organized with AI", grouping results with "unique, AI-generated headlines" in the US, and brings ads to mobile US search AI Overviews (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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YouTube unveils Shorts updates, including letting creators upload three-minute videos, updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and a new trends page (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model Flux1.1 Pro (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok'...

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