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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...

Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open&source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non&commercial use only (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open&source multimodal...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimo...

Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models (Reuters)

Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds...

Reuters: Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new sta...

Notes on an inexpensive and effective "video scraping" technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini (Simon Willison's Weblog)

Notes on an inexpensive and effective "video scraping" ...

Simon Willison's Weblog: Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” ...

WSJ's Tech Live: Netflix's Ted Sarandos, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and More

WSJ's Tech Live: Netflix's Ted Sarandos, LinkedIn's Rei...

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

Verizon will buy some of US Cellular's spectrum licenses for $1B, contingent on closing a deal announced in May to sell some US Cellular assets to T&Mobile (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)

Verizon will buy some of US Cellular's spectrum license...

Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: Verizon will buy some of US Cellular's spectrum lice...

Nebius Group, previously Yandex NV, says it will resume trading on Nasdaq on October 21, after being halted following Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine (Reuters)

Nebius Group, previously Yandex NV, says it will resume...

Reuters: Nebius Group, previously Yandex NV, says it will resume trading on Nasd...

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much equity Microsoft gets when OpenAI becomes a for&profit company, for which OpenAI has two years (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much ...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much equi...

Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relationship, OpenAI renegotiating its deal for more computing power, Microsoft's own LLM efforts, and more (New York Times)

Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relatio...

New York Times: Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relationship, Op...

Sources: the US is probing if TSMC has been making AI or smartphone chips for Huawei in breach of US sanctions, including Huawei buying chips via intermediaries (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: the US is probing if TSMC has been making AI o...

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: the US is probing if TSMC has been making...

X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, whose judges often favor conservative litigants (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the...

Nate Raymond / Reuters: X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the ...

Google Executive Overseeing Search and Advertising Leaves Role

Google Executive Overseeing Search and Advertising Leav...

Prabhakar Raghavan, the most senior Google executive overseeing its search engin...

Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after raising its bid to $7.2B; Squarespace sells restaurant reservation service Tock to Amex for $400M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after ...

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Private equity firm Permira acquires Squarespace after...

Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine, its Shine app, Google News, Yahoo, selling to Verizon, Yahoo Weather, feminism, being a geek, and more (Virginia Heffernan/Wired)

Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine,...

Virginia Heffernan / Wired: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on AI, her startup Sunshine, ...

Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 meal credits to buy household items, as it restructures WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs teams (Financial Times)

Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for usin...

Financial Times: Sources: last week, Meta fired ~24 staff in LA for using $25 me...

Everstage, which offers sales performance management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures, bringing its total raised to $45M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Everstage, which offers sales performance management so...

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Everstage, which offers sales performance managemen...

Robinhood launches its long&awaited desktop platform Robinhood Legend, and plans to add futures and index options trading to its mobile app in the coming months (Reuters)

Robinhood launches its long&awaited desktop platform Ro...

Reuters: Robinhood launches its long-awaited desktop platform Robinhood Legend, ...

Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it seeks to grow into a super app; Expedia, valued at nearly $20B, would be Uber's largest acquisition (Financial Times)

Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia a...

Financial Times: Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it see...

Kindle Colorsoft hands&on: bold and sharp color on a 7" display, wireless charging, and comfortable, lightweight design, but pricier than other Kindles at $280 (Tony Polanco/Tom's Guide)

Kindle Colorsoft hands&on: bold and sharp color on a 7"...

Tony Polanco / Tom's Guide: Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a...

Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides instead of wires in chips, raised a $400M Series D led by T. Rowe Price at a $4.4B valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguid...

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguid...

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says he expects a slow chip market recovery to extend "well into 2025" due to "customer cautiousness", as the US' China rules bite (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says he expects a slow chip...

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says he expects a slow chip m...

Filing: Chinese smart&driving company Horizon Robotics is targeting to raise ~$700M in its Hong Kong IPO; Alibaba and Baidu are among its cornerstone investors (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Chinese smart&driving company Horizon Robotics ...

P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal: Filing: Chinese smart-driving company Horizon...

Monogoto, which offers software&defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Monogoto, which offers software&defined connectivity to...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity...

Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro&Trump super PAC Right For America; Andreessen also gave ~$844K to the GOP and Trump campaign (Bloomberg)

Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated ...

Bloomberg: Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro-T...

Intel, AMD Create Advisory Group to Shape Future of X86 Architecture

Intel, AMD Create Advisory Group to Shape Future of X86...

The two companies and other technology giants will work together to shape the fu...

Alibaba, Baidu Invest in Chinese Smart&Driving Tech Company's Near $700 Million IPO

Alibaba, Baidu Invest in Chinese Smart&Driving Tech Com...

Alibaba and search-engine giant Baidu are investing in a nearly $700.0 million e...

Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on recent searches and YouTube history, coming to mobile first, and adds AI&generated shopping tips (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on ...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on re...

Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple Intelligence, and the same 8.3" display, starting at $499 with 128GB of storage, available to pre&order (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple ...

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple...

YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube rolls out new features: granular playback speed c...

New York Times to Bezos&Backed AI Startup: Stop Using Our Stuff

New York Times to Bezos&Backed AI Startup: Stop Using O...

Publisher demands that Perplexity stop accessing its content. Startup isn’t inte...

Why the Oura Smart Ring Has a Cult Following

Why the Oura Smart Ring Has a Cult Following

The best health tracker is the one you don’t take off.

Fuji Soft to Consider Bain Capital's Offer

Fuji Soft to Consider Bain Capital's Offer

Fuji Soft said it would sincerely consider Bain Capital’s tender offer, which be...

Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first "commercially safe" text&to&video generative AI model that was trained on licensed and public domain content (Jeremy Gray/PetaPixel)

Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first "commer...

Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel: Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first “commer...

Q&A with Duolingo co&founder and CEO Luis von Ahn on gamifying language learning, how the app makes money, investing in AI, founder mode, return to office, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Duolingo co&founder and CEO Luis von Ahn o...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn on ga...

Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from Nvidia and others on a country&specific basis, with a focus on the Middle East, for national security reasons (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from Nvidia...

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: the US mulls capping AI chip sales from ...

Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI

Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI

Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to...

U.S. Tech Firms to Invest More Than $8 Billion in U.K. Data Centers Amid AI Frenzy

U.S. Tech Firms to Invest More Than $8 Billion in U.K. ...

Surging AI demand has led to a combined investment of $8.23 billion in U.K. data...

Unleashing the economic potential of second&hand clothing

Unleashing the economic potential of second&hand clothing

Second-hand clothing can help countries meet environmental targets, and drive ec...

Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model i...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Mod...

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photoshop, like Distraction Removal, and makes Generative Fill, Generative Expand, and more generally available (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Photosho...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: At its Adobe Max event, Adobe adds AI tools to Phot...

Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent controllers, and large app library, but Fresnel lenses lead to artifacts and average MR cameras (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, ex...

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortabl...

How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers, Starlink terminals, and other tools to expand their pig butchering operations (Wired)

How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI,...

Wired: How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers, ...

Analysis: US regulators have secured $19.45B across eight settlements from crypto firms so far in 2024, including FTX's $12.7B, and ~$32B since January 1, 2019 (Lim Yu Qian/CoinGecko)

Analysis: US regulators have secured $19.45B across eig...

Lim Yu Qian / CoinGecko: Analysis: US regulators have secured $19.45B across eig...

A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2K headset in 2025, Vision Pro 2 in 2026, and Ray&Ban Meta&like glasses and AirPods with cameras in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans for a ~$2...

SpaceX Catches Huge Booster Back at Launchpad

SpaceX Catches Huge Booster Back at Launchpad

The Super Heavy booster lifted off from Texas on Sunday and propelled the Starsh...

The Northwest&AI&Hub, which is researching hybrid gain cell memory that combines DRAM's density with SRAM's speed, gets a $16.3M CHIPS Act grant via the US DOD (Katherine Bourzac/IEEE Spectrum)

The Northwest&AI&Hub, which is researching hybrid gain ...

Katherine Bourzac / IEEE Spectrum: The Northwest-AI-Hub, which is researching hy...

How some architects and designers are creating photorealistic virtual spaces in the metaverse; report: 41% of architectural practices use AI to some degree (Victoria Woodcock/Financial Times)

How some architects and designers are creating photorea...

Victoria Woodcock / Financial Times: How some architects and designers are creat...

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting (Samanth Subramanian/Bloomberg)

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, w...

Samanth Subramanian / Bloomberg: A look at sports data tech companies like Sport...

Apple Headset Stalls, Struggles to Attract Killer Apps in First Year

Apple Headset Stalls, Struggles to Attract Killer Apps ...

Many of the most successful virtual-reality software developers haven’t built ap...

Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is "forking" Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away "without consent" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is "forking" Advanced Cus...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Cus...

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