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The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic partnership, sets a December 19 deadline; Google planned to invest $2B in 2023 and signed a cloud deal (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)

The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic...

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Ant...

How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's detention in February 2024, which US officials said hurt the two allies' relationship (New York Times)

How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive ...

New York Times: How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Ga...

Apple now lets third&party browsers add web apps to an iPhone's Home Screen using their own custom engine in the EU in iOS 18.2 beta 1 (Filipe Esp&oacute;sito/9to5Mac)

Apple now lets third&party browsers add web apps to an ...

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple now lets third-party browsers add web apps to a...

SK Hynix Profit Momentum Continues on AI&Chip Demand

SK Hynix Profit Momentum Continues on AI&Chip Demand

SK Hynix posted record earnings in the third quarter as it continued to ride str...

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record ~$12.7B, vs. ~$13.2B expected, and operating profit of ~$5.1B, vs. ~$5B expected, on continued AI chip demand (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record ~$12...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to a record ~$12....

Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone startup Aerodome, sources say for $300M+; both are a16z&backed and have raised $680M+ and $28M respectively (Margaux MacColl/TechCrunch)

Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys drone sta...

Margaux MacColl / TechCrunch: Police surveillance company Flock Safety buys dron...

Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to identify and fix IT problems, raised a $25M Series A co&led by Costanoa, Decibel, and Paladin Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to identif...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Fixify, which combines AI and human analysts to ident...

WSJ Tech Live: Executives, Investors and Artists Debate AI's Potential

WSJ Tech Live: Executives, Investors and Artists Debate...

Andreessen Horowitz’s Martin Casado says tech policy is in a ‘dangerous place.’

Perplexity CEO Proposes Revenue Deals for Publishers After Lawsuit

Perplexity CEO Proposes Revenue Deals for Publishers Af...

Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones sued the AI startup this week, alleging cop...

Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting app, free to users, removing a subscription for premium features, to compete with Procreate and others (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting ...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and paint...

Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production since early summer, and could stop making the existing version entirely by the end of 2024 (The Information)

Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro produ...

The Information: Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production si...

A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14&year&old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14&year&ol...

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-ye...

Meet Hollywood's AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon&Levitt

Meet Hollywood's AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon&Levitt

The actor says AI companies use movies and TV to make money without fairly compe...

Apple Intelligence Isn't Very Smart Yet&&&and Apple's OK With That

Apple Intelligence Isn't Very Smart Yet&&&and Apple's O...

Our columnist reviews the first wave of AI features coming to iPhones with iOS 1...

Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source code vulnerabilities, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract Ventures, taking its total funding to $65M (David Prosser/Forbes)

Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source...

David Prosser / Forbes: Socket, which provides tools to help detect open source ...

Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm ...

Ian King / Bloomberg: Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use...

Runway rolls out Act&One, a Gen&3 Alpha tool for animating AI&generated characters with realistic facial expressions using video and voice recordings as inputs (Runway)

Runway rolls out Act&One, a Gen&3 Alpha tool for animat...

Runway: Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated ...

Dye & Durham to Consider Sale as Strategic Review Process Expands

Dye & Durham to Consider Sale as Strategic Review P...

Review comes after shareholders expressed concerns about the cloud-based softwar...

WSJ's Tech Live: Andreessen Partner Sounds Alarm on America's AI Policy

WSJ's Tech Live: Andreessen Partner Sounds Alarm on Ame...

Journal subscribers can watch live interviews including with SF Federal Reserve ...

WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app so...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp plans to let users save contacts in the app so...

A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri can sue Saudi Arabia in London court over claims of targeting him with NSO Group's Pegasus (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri ...

Sam Tobin / Reuters: A UK court says prominent Saudi dissident Yahya Assiri can ...

TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to have it manufacture AI chips for Huawei, circumventing export controls; sources: the chips resembled 910Bs (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential attempt to h...

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: TSMC says it alerted the US to a potential atte...

Nuclear&Powered AI: Big Tech's Bold Solution or a Pipedream?

Nuclear&Powered AI: Big Tech's Bold Solution or a Piped...

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are investing billions in nuclear power, but the pr...

WSJ's Tech Live: Reid Hoffman Calls Out Elon Musk; Amazon Supports Nuclear Renaissance

WSJ's Tech Live: Reid Hoffman Calls Out Elon Musk; Amaz...

Journal subscribers can watch live interviews including with SF Federal Reserve ...

The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and other senior tech professionals as uniformed, paid reservists to help in cybersecurity, data analytics, more (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

The US DOD plans an initiative to recruit CTOs and othe...

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: The US DOD plans an initiative to recr...

Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign ...

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign ...

Mumbai&based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure to enterprise customers, raised a $30M Series A co&led by NTTVC, Z47, and Nexus Venture Partners (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Mumbai&based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure to ...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Mumbai-based Neysa, a provider of AI infrastructure ...

Pentagon Seeks Silicon Valley Elite to Join Reserves

Pentagon Seeks Silicon Valley Elite to Join Reserves

A new Defense Department initiative would recruit top technical minds as part-ti...

Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goods and services, raised $190M led by BOND at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1.5B in May 2023 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goo...

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying g...

Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more; in a follow&up, an exec said "at the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted" (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and ...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more...

Seattle&based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI&powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Seattle&based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI&power...

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-power...

Wanted: Weekend Warriors in Tech

Wanted: Weekend Warriors in Tech

A new Defense Department initiative would recruit Silicon Valley’s top technical...

We Tried Apple's New Hearing Test&&&and the New AirPods Pro Hearing Aids

We Tried Apple's New Hearing Test&&&and the New AirPods...

Apple’s new clinical-grade diagnostics and hearing assistance are potential life...

Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double its valuation to $8B or more; Perplexity's annualized revenue is ~$50M, up from ~$10M in March (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to doubl...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double it...

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says "law enforcement could take a look at" the plan (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state vote...

Alexandra Marquez / NBC News: After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state...

At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)

At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the...

Wired: At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't ...

AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $8 Billion

AI Startup Perplexity in Funding Talks to More Than Dou...

The search-based chatbot is seeking to raise around $500 million in what would b...

In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen restrictions on sales of chipmaking equipment to China or risk facing US curbs on Japanese companies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen...

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to stre...

After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator&run sets (Daysia Tolentino/NBC News)

After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast...

Daysia Tolentino / NBC News: After allegations of poor working conditions on MrB...

Anthropic evaluates four "sabotage" threat vectors for its Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models and finds that "minimal mitigations are sufficient" (Anthropic)

Anthropic evaluates four "sabotage" threat vectors for ...

Anthropic: Anthropic evaluates four “sabotage” threat vectors for its Claude 3 O...

The 'October Theory' of Changing Your Life

The 'October Theory' of Changing Your Life

As part of the “October Theory” trend, people are rethinking their approach to t...

Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics, replaces Quest 3's depth sensor with two IR flood illuminators, and more (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD panel a...

Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD ...

How Cloudflare CTO John Graham&Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid (Steven Levy/Wired)

How Cloudflare CTO John Graham&Cumming cracked an encry...

Steven Levy / Wired: How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted...

Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools (Bloomberg)

Students, academics, and developers say AI writing dete...

Bloomberg: Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most...

A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real&world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from resea...

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from resear...

Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short (Marah Eakin/Wired)

Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film c...

Marah Eakin / Wired: Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film compe...

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic surge during the pandemic helped it build an AI&ready "connectivity cloud", balkanization of the internet, more (Om Malik/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic sur...

Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: Q&A with Cloudflare CEO on how internet traffic su...

How San Francisco Learned to Love Self&Driving Cars

How San Francisco Learned to Love Self&Driving Cars

Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourist...

How College Students Beat Boeing in a Battle to Take Down Drones

How College Students Beat Boeing in a Battle to Take Do...

A device that blasts sound waves shows how smaller players are competing against...

Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin

Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks...

Electrostatic motors are in testing and have massive potential

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