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OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Meta says it will not sign the EU's voluntary AI safety pledge that's planned as a stopgap before the EU's AI Act takes full effect in 2027, but may join later (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

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Duolingo unveils an interactive AI feature to "video call" with its Lily mascot, as part of its $30/month Duolingo Max tier; the dialogue is generated by GPT-4o (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Marques Brownlee says "I hear you" after criticism of his new freemium wallpaper app Panels, which asks for many permissions and costs $50/year for full access (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg wants to get away from politics, pulling back from charitable causes that may seem partisan, tamping down employee activism, and more (New York Times)

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Google Cloud debuts Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro with a 2M context window, twice as big as before, "grounding" for better Google search accuracy, and new agents (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

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Sources describe Meta's efforts to de-emphasize political content across its family of apps, its reduction and reshuffling of election integrity staff, and more (New York Times)

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In a controversial move, Israel's ISA clears AI startup Bridgewise to launch a chatbot that gives stock picking advice, slated to debut with a big Israeli bank (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

In a controversial move, Israel's ISA clears AI st...

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Sources: some key staff working on Microsoft's distilled AI models like Phi, trained on synthetic data, have left the Microsoft AI unit led by Mustafa Suleyman (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Sources: some key staff working on Microsoft's dis...

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Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 control surface for apps like Lightroom is an affordable entry point, but pros may find the controls limiting (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Logitech MX Creative Console review: the $200 cont...

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Spotify rolls out its AI Playlist feature in beta to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, after launching in the UK and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Portland-based Torq, which helps IT teams automate security workflows, raised a $70M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners, for $192M in total funding (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Scale AI nearly quadrupled sales YoY to ~$400M in H1 2024 and had ~$980M in cash; the data labeling startup raised $1B at a $13.8B valuation in May (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Sources: Scale AI nearly quadrupled sales YoY to ~...

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Collaboration software maker Smartsheet agrees to be acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for $8.4B in cash, or $56.50/share, closing in early 2025 (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

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Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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Google Photos rolls out an update to its mobile video editor for Android and iOS, adding editing tools and AI presets to make trimming and tweaking clips easier (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google Photos rolls out an update to its mobile vi...

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Warner Bros. Discovery partners with Google to add its "caption AI", built on Vertex AI, to Max to automatically generate captions for unscripted programming (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code starting on October 29 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

GitHub says all enterprise cloud customers will be...

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