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Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded ...

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Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to question...

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Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones (David Lumb/CNET)

Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 mode...

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Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearl...

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Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolu...

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Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 (Meta for Developers on Facebook)

Livestream of Meta Connect 2024 (Meta for Develope...

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A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company's first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, and more are expected (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the compan...

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Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records; Threads.com was owned by a Slack alternative startup acquired by Shopify in June (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, acc...

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Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was prim...

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Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign called Salt Typhoon, have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: China-linked hackers, in a campaign calle...

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London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS produ...

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A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had "never seen" a cooperator like Ellison (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FT...

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The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet (Will Knight/Wired)

The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal...

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Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats (Politico)

Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some e...

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are "going to take time ... to play out" and an appeal "will likely take many years" (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ...

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Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use thi...

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Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is "exploiting" its customers' reliance on Windows (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Mic...

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