Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity company Splunk for $157 per share in cash, up 31% on Splunk's September 20 closing price, in a deal valued at ~$28B
- Acquisition is largest deal ever for networking stalwart — Cisco is trying to lessen dependence on one-time sales
Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, the Alexa Eye Gaze accessibility feature, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more
Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia.
OpenAI teases DALL-E 3, which can be summoned and controlled using ChatGPT, and plans to make the tool available to ChatGPT+ and enterprise customers in October
OpenAI is offering an early look at DALL-E 3, the next version of its image generation tool.
Documents show that up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects were euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk says no primates died due to implants
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …
Sources: Apple spent billions of dollars developing a modem chip for the new iPhones to cut ties with Qualcomm, but the chip was slow and prone to overheating
The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter foe
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching across all of its apps and services, including Office 365, from September 26
Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” just called Copilot …
Korean game publisher Krafton says Dead Space developer Striking Distance's CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new game flopped
Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months …
Apple's FineWoven accessories and iPhone cases are really bad: they are expensive, quickly show wear, and scratch very easily, leaving seemingly permanent marks
Apple's new FineWoven iPhone cases and accessories are bad. Like, really bad. I've been puzzling over them for the past week, looking at them from different angles.
Microsoft plans to release its next Windows 11 update, 23H2, on September 26, offering the new AI-powered Windows Copilot, a redesigned File Explorer, and more
Microsoft will release its next big Windows 11 update, 23H2, on September 26th. The update will include the new AI-powered …
Tether confirms resuming lending its stablecoins to clients, less than a year after committing to end such loans; $5.5B of its assets were loans as of June 30
Cryptocurrency issuer had said it would cut loans to zero in 2023 — Tether Holdings resumed lending out its own stablecoins to customers …
Amazon unveils new generative AI features aimed at making Alexa more conversational and personalized, available as a free preview on all Echo devices in the US
Microsoft announces the 14.4" Surface Laptop Studio 2, offering Intel's 13th Gen chips, Nvidia RTX 4050 or RTX 4060, and up to 2TB storage, starting at $1,999
Microsoft just showed off its new high-end convertible laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, at its launch event in New York City.
Sources: Panos Panay's abrupt departure came after Microsoft made budget and staff cuts, canceled products, and discussed reorganizing his hardware unit
- Microsoft this week announced Chief Product Officer Panos Panay left after nearly 20 years. — Panay is expected …
YouTube debuts YouTube Create, an app to let creators to edit videos with effects, royalty-free tracks, and more, available in beta on Android in eight markets
YouTube this morning introduced a new app for creators, YouTube Create, that will offer a suite of easy-to-use and free tools …
The US DOJ removes public access to Google's emails, charts, and internal presentations that came out as evidence in its antitrust lawsuit against the company
Trial is already limited in visibility to those who personally attend court … Google had challenged the government's posting …
Meta updates Facebook's “identity system”, including a new logo to confidently express the platform's “core blue color”, and refines Facebook's emoji Reactions
Meta is updating Facebook's “identity system,” and that includes a dramatically refreshed logo. — Just kidding!
Neuralink is recruiting for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, expected to take about six years, likely for fewer than 10 people
Microsoft plans to release 365 Copilot AI on November 1 for Microsoft 365 customers on certain business and enterprise plans for $30 per month per user
Wes Davis / The Verge :
Microsoft announces the 12.4" Surface Laptop Go 3, offering Intel 12th Gen CPUs and Iris Xe GPUs, and up to 16GB of RAM, starting at $799 and shipping October 3
Kris Holt / Engadget :
GitHub expands its Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to Copilot for Individual subscribers, after launching the tool for businesses in July 2023
Three months ago, GitHub launched Copilot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making …
A look at AI-generated geometric art crafted using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet, a neural network structure that adds extra conditions to diffusion models
This past weekend, a new kind of artwork made waves across the Internet: AI-generated spiral art.
Amazon announces the $50 Fire TV Stick 4K, the $60 Fire TV Stick 4K Max, the $120 24-inch Fire TV Soundbar, and generative AI updates for Fire TV voice search
Amazon refreshes its $150 Echo Show 8 with a new design, a centered camera, a smart home hub, Spatial Audio, and a home screen that changes based on proximity
Microsoft announces the Surface Go 4 with a four-core Intel N200 chip and plans to sell the 2-in-1 only to businesses, available on October 3, starting at $579
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
Amazon's Eero unveils the Eero Max 7, its first Wi-Fi 7 router, offering 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands and an “up to 4.3 Gbps” wireless throughput, for $600
Eero has announced a powerful new top-of-the-line router called the Eero Max 7. It's Eero's first router to support …
YouTube unveils YouTube Studio AI features coming in 2024 and lets select creators test Aloud, a dubbing tool that creates AI-generated dubs in other languages
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring writers and poets with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality and creativity of AI tools
Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing. Mastodon: @oisinmcgann@mastodon.ie . X: @iethics and @iethic...
YouTube announces Dream Screen, a Shorts feature that lets users create an AI-generated video or image background using text prompts, rolling out in early 2024
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : See also Mediagazer
MGM Resorts ended its 10-day computer shutdown on September 20, after a September 7 hack, and says that “all of our hotels and casinos are operating normally”
MGM Resorts brought to an end a 10-day computer shutdown prompted by efforts to shield from a cyberattack data including …
Source: Google extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as its TPU supplier as early as 2027 and designing the chips itself to save billions of dollars annually
Google executives have extensively discussed dropping Broadcom as a supplier of artificial intelligence chips as early as 2027 …
Klaviyo closes up 9.2% in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the Shopify-backed e-commerce marketing company at $9.9B on a fully diluted basis
but Important—IPO — We tend to lionize founders who start companies with the splashiest … Fortune : A day after a blockbuster debut, Instacart's shares go in reverse and briefly sink below their IPO...
Layer 2 blockchain Optimism sells 116M OP tokens worth $157M to seven buyers in a “private” sale, after airdropping 19.4M tokens to 31K+ users earlier this week
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Uber plans to accept the US food stamps EBT card and health insurance-issued FSA and flex cards for Uber Eats grocery delivery orders, starting in 2024
Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024 https://www.theverge.com/... #Uber #UberEats #SNAP #FoodStamps #Groceries #TechNews — [image] X: @ubereats : Introducing feat...
In its Prime lawsuit, the FTC alleges that three Amazon executives played key roles in enrolling customers unwittingly and making canceling subscriptions hard
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal :
A look at Poisson flow generative models, a physics-inspired alternative to diffusion-based AI models that can create the same quality images 10X to 20X faster
'PFGM can create images of the same quality as those produced by diffusion-based approaches and do so 10 to 20 times faster. “It utilizes a physical construct, the electric field, in a way we've neve...
Mastodon releases Mastodon 4.2, making it easier for users to get started, use its network even when logged out, more easily search for content, and more
As changes at Elon Musk's X continue to push former Twitter users to seek alternatives, the open-sourced, decentralized social network Mastodon …
Hands-on with Bard Extensions, which lets the chatbot use Gmail, Docs, and Drive data: the feature hallucinated emails, made unbookable travel plans, and more
Hands-on with #Bard Extensions from #Google, which lets the chatbot use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive: the feature made up emails, made wrong travel plans, and more. … Shriram Krishnamurthi / @shri...
After their IPOs, Arm and Instacart are down 20%+ from their highs; Arm closed at $52.91 on September 20, 4% above its offer price, while Instacart was flat
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AstroPepeX's developer details how he used ChatGPT to name and launch the ERC-20 memecoin, which has raked in $12.9M in trading volume over the past 24 hours
Central Banks, AI, & meme coins Aamir Sheikh / Cryptopolitan : Developer Leverages ChatGP4 and AI for Autonomous Token deployment on Ethereum X: @croissanteth : I seriously can't believe this worked. ...
Proof of Play, which released a blockchain-based RPG game called Pirate Nation in December 2022, raised $33M in seed funding co-led by a16z and Greenoaks
Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat :
Meta rolls out the ability for Facebook users to create up to four additional profiles and switch between them without logging out
Jay Peters / The Verge :
1Password rolls out passkey support to its iOS and Android apps and web extensions; replacing the user's master password with a passkey is coming later in 2023
With YC's increasingly heated public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator's founder and some investors, the VC appears curiously on the defensive lately
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Documents: Amazon scrapped a planned 2% fee on merchants that don't use its shipping services; disclosed in August, the fee was set to take effect on October 1
The Biden administration awards $238M via the DoD to set up eight chip research hubs, one of the earliest releases of the CHIPS Act's nearly $53B in subsidies
Ana Swanson / New York Times :
PayPal says select Venmo users can now purchase its stablecoin PYUSD, with a rollout to more users in the coming weeks, in addition to BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC
Ben Weiss / Fortune :
Research: the global cybersecurity workforce reached 4.7M in 2022 and still had a 3.4M shortage; Statista says the average salary ranged from $120K to $150K
Nick Huber / Financial Times :
Tokyo-based chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric plans to raise ~$750M in an IPO on October 25 in Tokyo at a ~$2.95B valuation, pricing shares at ~$12.78
A Japan Industrial Partners-led consortium acquires 78.65% of Toshiba via a tender offer, setting the company up to be taken private as early as December 2023
Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters :
MotherDuck, which is commercializing the database platform DuckDB, raised a $52.5M Series B at a $400M post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $100M
Darrow, which uses AI to parse public documents for class-action lawsuit potential, raised a $35M Series B led by Georgian and says ~50 law firms use its tool
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