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Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini...

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PayPal completes its first business payment using its proprietary PYUSD stablecoin, paying an E&Y invoice on September 23 via SAP's digital currency hub (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

PayPal completes its first business payment using ...

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Uber partners with Avride to use its sidewalk robots, first in Austin, then Dallas and Jersey City in 2024, and its autonomous cars, starting in Dallas in 2025 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Uber partners with Avride to use its sidewalk robo...

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Spotify launches Offline Backup, a playlist of downloaded songs that users recently listened to, available automatically for Premium users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Spotify launches Offline Backup, a playlist of dow...

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Analysis: Nvidia execs and directors have sold nearly 11M shares, worth $1.8B+, in 2024 so far, the most since at least 2020; there are 24.5B outstanding shares (Bloomberg)

Analysis: Nvidia execs and directors have sold nea...

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Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC's top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11 (Nicola M. White/Bloomberg)

Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC's top enforcement offici...

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Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data center server racks in its proprietary coolant, raised a $55.5M Series C at a ~$500M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Barcelona-based Submer, which submerges data cente...

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Analysis: London's Met police used facial recognition 117 times in 2024 to August, up from 32 times in total from 2020 to 2023; ~770,966 people were scanned (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)

Analysis: London's Met police used facial recognit...

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Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes, shipping October 15, and completely redesigns the Oura app (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Oura unveils the $349+ Oura Ring 4, with a slimmer...

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As Satya Nadella says AI models are becoming "more of a commodity", OpenAI faces formidable challenges, including burning through cash and intense competition (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

As Satya Nadella says AI models are becoming "more...

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How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices, Germany's Infineon, and others helped power a Russian missile used in Ukraine, despite US export controls (Bloomberg)

How chips made by US companies like Analog Devices...

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Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting a recently disclosed RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers triggered by sending emails to the SMTP server (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting a rec...

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A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South Korea, where its parliament has revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal (Hyung-Jin Kim/Associated Press)

A look at the prevalence of deepfake porn in South...

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An in-depth account of how CD Projekt Red recovered from the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, using a fully parallelized engine to test and resolve issues (Chris Tapsell/Eurogamer.net)

An in-depth account of how CD Projekt Red recovere...

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Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart...

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Dogecoin has become surprisingly popular among businesses looking to accept crypto for real-world purchases, largely due to the memecoin's low transaction costs (Teresa Xie/Bloomberg)

Dogecoin has become surprisingly popular among bus...

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Analysis: OpenAI, the third-most valuable VC-backed company after SpaceX and ByteDance, is worth far more than any VC-backed company at the time of their IPO (Rosie Bradbury/PitchBook)

Analysis: OpenAI, the third-most valuable VC-backe...

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PitchBook: Q3 US VC investments rose 8% YoY to $37.9B across 3,777 deals; AI firms got 36% of deal value and 27% of deal count in the first nine months of 2024 (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

PitchBook: Q3 US VC investments rose 8% YoY to $37...

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