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Qodo, which offers code generation and testing tools to the enterprise, raised a $40M Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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AI pareidolia: Can machines spot faces in inanimate objects?

AI pareidolia: Can machines spot faces in inanimat...

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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pledges to keep investing in blockchain, AI, and biotech, in his first comments since his release from US custody on September 27 (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pledges to keep inv...

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An FBI affidavit and European media leaks show how Russia's Doppelganger disinformation project operated and give insights into the Kremlin's online tactics (Thomas Rid/Foreign Affairs)

An FBI affidavit and European media leaks show how...

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Epic files a CA lawsuit accusing Samsung and Google of colluding to deter users from rival app stores via Samsung's Auto Blocker, and plans to speak to the EU (Reuters)

Epic files a CA lawsuit accusing Samsung and Googl...

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AT&T agrees to sell its majority stake in DirecTV to private equity firm TPG for $7.6B in cash, including $1.7B in pre-tax quarterly distributions in H2 2024 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

AT&T agrees to sell its majority stake in DirecTV ...

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A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, created by Meta, Microsoft, YouTube, and X in 2016 to share info; X quietly left the board this month (Paresh Dave/Wired)

A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Ter...

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Raspberry Pi AI Camera review: the new $70 kit has a smart camera with performance that will cover 99% of basic user projects, and works as a standard Pi camera (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)

Raspberry Pi AI Camera review: the new $70 kit has...

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Sources: ByteDance plans to develop an AI model trained primarily with Huawei Ascend 910B chips, which it already uses for less intensive inference tasks (Reuters)

Sources: ByteDance plans to develop an AI model tr...

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Google's lawyers wrapped up their defense of the company in the US DOJ ad tech antitrust trial last week; a judge's ruling is expected in the coming months (New York Times)

Google's lawyers wrapped up their defense of the c...

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Antenna: Netflix cancellations spiked for a few days in late July 2024 after Reed Hastings endorsed Kamala Harris and announced a $7M super PAC donation (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Antenna: Netflix cancellations spiked for a few da...

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Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter

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Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 2020 breach, facing the US SEC's charges that were largely dismissed in July, global cyber regulations, and more (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 20...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047; source: Newsom vetoed because the bill applies only to large AI models and leaves others unregulated (Wall Street Journal)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill...

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California passes a law that includes "neural data" under personal sensitive information, aiming to protect people's brain data from being misused by companies (Jonathan Moens/New York Times)

California passes a law that includes "neural data...

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Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets, including moving compute to iPhone, and is working on homeOS; new Masimo CEO could enable a deal with Apple (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets,...

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A look at challenges to OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, including the complexity of splitting assets with the nonprofit arm, which will continue to exist (Wall Street Journal)

A look at challenges to OpenAI becoming a for-prof...

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NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more (Aswath Damodaran/Financial Times)

NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that i...

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A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep (Matthew Lynley/Supervised)

A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as ...

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YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired (Jem Aswad/Variety)

YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Da...

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Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has climbed almost sixfold to $200B+ in less than two years, buoyed by Meta's record-high share price, which is up 60%+ YTD (Alex Perry/Bloomberg)

Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has climbed almo...

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Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund a...

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Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their fr...

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Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veter...

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Court docs: Brazil's Supreme Court say X still needs to pay $5M+ in pending fines, including a new one, before it will be allowed to resume service in Brazil (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)

Court docs: Brazil's Supreme Court say X still nee...

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Sources: TSMC's execs took to calling Sam Altman a "podcasting bro" after he said it would take $7T and many years to build 36 chip plants to fulfill his vision (New York Times)

Sources: TSMC's execs took to calling Sam Altman a...

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Sources: OpenAI expects its revenue to grow to $11.6B in 2025; ChatGPT has 10M paying users and could bring in $2.7B in revenue in 2024, up from $700M in 2023 (Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI expects its revenue to grow to $11...

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SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipmaking equipment from 2025 to 2027, followed by South Korea at $81B, Taiwan at $75B, and the Americas at $63B (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipm...

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SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipmaking equipment from 2025 to 2027, followed by South Korea at $81B, Taiwan at $75B, and the Americas at $63B (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

SEMI: China is projected to invest $100B+ on chipm...

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Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese AAA game that has sold 20M+ copies globally, hailing it as a soft power export (Lizzi C. Lee/Rest of World)

Chinese state media has embraced the success of Bl...

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A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose owner was arrested by the US in June for allegedly running a "pill mill", as it continues to operate from China (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

A look at telehealth startup Done Global, whose ow...

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The demand for the X100 series of point-and-shoot digital cameras has driven big profits for Fujifilm after the X100V went viral on TikTok in September 2022 (Curtis Heinzl/Bloomberg)

The demand for the X100 series of point-and-shoot ...

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Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B (Wall Street Journal)

Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate...

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A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kah...

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Sources: China is discouraging local companies from purchasing Nvidia's H20 chips to help expand the country's semiconductor industry and counter US sanctions (Bloomberg)

Sources: China is discouraging local companies fro...

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The US DOJ charges two Russians for operating $1B+ money laundering services for cybercriminals; one is accused of operating the Joker's Stash marketplace (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

The US DOJ charges two Russians for operating $1B+...

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Docs: OpenAI's monthly revenue hit $300M in August, up 1,700% since the beginning of 2023, and it expects ~$3.7B in annual sales in 2024 but also to lose ~$5B (New York Times)

Docs: OpenAI's monthly revenue hit $300M in August...

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Kaspersky confirms that it has replaced the antivirus software on its US customers' computers with software called UltraAV, owned by American company Pango (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Kaspersky confirms that it has replaced the antivi...

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Mango DAO, Mango Labs, and Blockworks Foundation agree to destroy MNGO tokens and ask crypto exchanges to stop trading them as part of an SEC settlement (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Mango DAO, Mango Labs, and Blockworks Foundation a...

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Google rolls out Gemini-powered contextual Smart Replies, which analyzes the context of an email and suggests a detailed reply, in Gmail for paid users (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google rolls out Gemini-powered contextual Smart R...

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Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing its forced arbitration policy and allowing gamers to take legal action against its parent company Valve (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing i...

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Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making English versions of his speeches and to rebrand him as "misunderstood" via TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube (Washington Post)

Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making ...

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Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)

Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's...

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Microsoft details how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature, including making it opt-in and giving users an option to uninstall (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft details how it has overhauled its contro...

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The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for allegedly hacking Trump's presidential campaign and disseminating stolen info (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)

The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran'...

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Mendaera, which is developing a robotic system with real-time imaging and AI for use in interventional radiology, raised a $73M Series B led by Threshold (Marty Stempniak/Radiology Business)

Mendaera, which is developing a robotic system wit...

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MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program

MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation ...

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Sources: Apple rethinks its movie strategy, including rolling back theatrical releases and cutting budgets for most to under $100M, after some box office misses (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple rethinks its movie strategy, includ...

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The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights (Maggie Miller/Politico)

The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime tr...

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PowerA OPS v1 review: a cheaper v3 Pro alternative that gets the job done

PowerA OPS v1 review: a cheaper v3 Pro alternative...

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