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Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents, in an acquisition valued at $450M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses "fair AI terms" (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Sources: FBI raided the Reston, Virginia offices of Carahsoft, a government IT vendor, as part of a probe into a company with which Carahsoft has done business (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)

Sources: FBI raided the Reston, Virginia offices o...

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Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has joined its board of directors (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has join...

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Caroline Ellison, a star witness in the prosecution of FTX founder and former boyfriend SBF, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the FTX scandal (Brady Dale/Axios)

Caroline Ellison, a star witness in the prosecutio...

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The world's second largest money transfer company, MoneyGram, blames an unspecified "cybersecurity issue" for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

The world's second largest money transfer company,...

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Ujet, which uses AI to help businesses with customer support, raised $76M led by Sapphire Ventures, valuing the company at $500M, and promotes its COO to co-CEO (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Ujet, which uses AI to help businesses with custom...

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Microsoft debuts Correction in preview as part of the Azure AI Content Safety API; the service tries to find and revise AI-generated text that's factually wrong (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has tried to unlawfully crush competitors, including PayPal and Square (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal m...

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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)

OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, wh...

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Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2024 R&D 100 Awards

Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 20...

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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)

Meta says it will not sign the EU's voluntary AI s...

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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)

Duolingo unveils an interactive AI feature to "vid...

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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)

Marques Brownlee says "I hear you" after criticism...

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Research quantifying “nociception” could help improve management of surgical pain

Research quantifying “nociception” could help impr...

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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)

Sources describe Meta's efforts to de-emphasize po...

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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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3 Questions: Should we label AI systems like we do prescription drugs?

3 Questions: Should we label AI systems like we do...

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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)

Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% fas...

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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)

Warner Bros. Discovery partners with Google to add...

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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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Snap says it will use Google's Gemini to help add new features to its chatbot, including translating menus, after starting to use Gemini earlier in 2024 (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

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Google plans to include the standalone Gemini app as standard on Workspace Business, Enterprise, and Frontline plans from Q4, replacing the Gemini add-on (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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WP Engine sends a "cease and desist" letter to Automattic to "retract false, harmful, and disparaging statements", after Matt Mullenweg called it a "cancer" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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On its Chinese website, Huawei says its HarmonyOS now has 10,000 apps and meta-services; the latest HarmonyOS update blocked the ability to install Android apps (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Swedish prosecutors say Iran was behind 15K text messages sent on August 1, 2023 to sow fear in Sweden, asking recipients to exact revenge after Koran burnings (Niclas Rolander/Bloomberg)

Swedish prosecutors say Iran was behind 15K text m...

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How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls (New York Times)

How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are ...

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Access Now and 24+ others wrote to Pavel Durov in late 2021 asking Telegram to add transparent content rules, an appeals process, and more; Durov didn't respond (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Access Now and 24+ others wrote to Pavel Durov in ...

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A profile of Goldman Sachs' head of stock research...

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Raspberry Pi reports H1 2024 revenue up 61% YoY to $144M, gross profit up 47% YoY to $34.2M, and unit volume up 31% YoY to 3.66M; RPI jumps 5%+ pre-market (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Raspberry Pi reports H1 2024 revenue up 61% YoY to...

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The US, Meta, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI launch the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI to advance "sustainable" AI development (US Department of State)

The US, Meta, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Microsoft, N...

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A profile of Li-Chen Miller, Meta VP of product fo...

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An interview with The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller on Arc Search being an operating system, competing with Chrome and Safari, monetization, AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

An interview with The Browser Company CEO Josh Mil...

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Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal's Nurix AI, which builds custom AI agents for enterprise services, raises a $27.5M seed from Accel, General Catalyst, and others (Digbijay Mishra/The Economic Times)

Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal's Nurix AI, which bui...

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Memo: an arbitrator awards full severance package to an ex-Twitter employee, who was laid off when Elon Musk took over, first such resolution of 2K+ complaints (Bloomberg)

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MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2024-25

MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2024-2...

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Q&A with Vinod Khosla on investing in AI and OpenAI, AI risks, the impact of AI in the labor market, regulation, dominance within the global AI race, and more (Astha Rajvanshi/TIME)

Q&A with Vinod Khosla on investing in AI and OpenA...

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A teardown of Huawei's popular Qingyun L540 laptop, which relies on some foreign tech, reveals the challenges ahead for China's tech self-sufficiency efforts (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

A teardown of Huawei's popular Qingyun L540 laptop...

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Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised a $100M round led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia ...

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