Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B
The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking
Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took “generous” severance after disagreeing with WordPress' direction and handling of WP Engine
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence
Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
Sources: Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family and Tencent consider options, including a buyout of Ubisoft after it lost 50%+ of its value in 2024; UBI jumps 25%+
- Deliberations come after fall in game developer's share price — Tencent, Guillemot family hold minority stakes in French firm
The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems
The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025
Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …
Researchers say Linux malware “perfctl” has been targeting millions of Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years
A Linux malware named “perfctl” has been targeting Linux servers and workstations for at least three years …
Google confirms it is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside official site links for companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Apple
Google is experimenting with a new verification feature in search that should make it easier for users to avoid clicking on fake or fraudulent website links.
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors' personal info without parental consent; TikTok denies it
CAUSE NO. ___________ STATE OF TEXAS, ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ) … Sebastian Pier / PhoneArena : Texas sues TikTok, accusing platform of mishandling children's data Lawyer Monthl...
The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016
Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed a civil action brought … Ben Johnson : 👏 I'm very proud that today, it was unveiled that the NGO-ISAC, Microsoft, and othe...
OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users
A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code The image shows … Jorge A. Aguilar / How-To Geek : ChatGPT Canvas Wants To Be Your Personal Writing Assistant Harsh Shivam / Business Standard : Ope...
Google says it'll stop linking to news and drop its deals with outlets in New Zealand if the country passes a law forcing digital platforms to pay for content
Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations …
Google updates Lens to let users take a video and use their voice to search, showing an AI Overview and search results, rolling out to Search Labs on mobile
from typing a query to humming a tune. Today, we're introducing even more new AI-powered ways to search what you see and hear. Learn more ↓ https://blog.google/... LinkedIn: Rachel Gruner : Google Len...
YouTube updates Shorts with the ability for creators to upload up to three-minute videos, a streamlined Shorts player, templates, and a new trends mobile page
More Time, More Content Camila Foster / Sammy Fans : YouTube Shorts just got longer, 3 minute videos coming October 15 Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : YouTube Shorts are getting longer with new three-min...
Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster 1.5 Flash variant with a 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts
50% lower price (vs 1.5 Flash) — 2x higher rate limits (vs 1.5 Flash) … Forums: r/Bard : Gemini 8b out of preview available for production use through api
Meta launches a Gen Z-focused redesign of Facebook, including a Local tab in 10 US cities, an Explore tab, and a full-screen video player in the Video tab
Facebook wants to woo more younger users to join its social network, instead of spending all their time on TikTok, Instagram, and other social apps.
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M
excited to be a part of this journey! Oh, and feel free to reach out if you're interested in embeddings and retrieval. Would love to chat. Shunyu Yao / @shunyuyao12 : Congrats @tengyuma and co, and co...
CCData: Binance's trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021
instead, we lost $200B CryptoGlobe : Binance's Market Dominance Drops to 4-Year Low: CCData Report Ronaldo Marquez / NewsBTC : Binance Market Dominance Plunges: A Deep Dive Into The 36% Share Drop Nag...
A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results
On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) …
Researchers: hackers are actively exploiting an RCE vulnerability in Zimbra email servers, disclosed on September 27, triggered by emailing the SMTP server
When the mail server handles an email address with shell escape characters, the postjournal binary just shells out and runs whatever is specified. … Will Dormann / @wdormann@infosec.exchange : “Best e...
Robinhood plans to debut margin trading in the UK in the coming weeks; it's exploring offering retirement products and letting British users invest in UK stocks
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Spotify launches Offline Backup, which automatically makes recently streamed and now playing queued songs available as an offline playlist for Premium users
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Google expands conversational AI voice chat Gemini Live's language support to French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, and Spanish, after launching in English
An Android phone or tablet. — The Gemini mobile app, or Gemini as your mobile assistant. LinkedIn: Jules Walter : I'm thrilled to announce that Gemini Live is expanding to more than 40 languages! It...
Gurbir Grewal, the US SEC's top enforcement official since 2021, who oversaw 2,400+ enforcement actions and the crypto crackdown, plans to leave on October 11
Good morning. We had a ball during yesterday's Fortune Brainstorm … US Securities and Exchange Commission : SEC Announces Departure of Enforcement Director Gurbir S. Grewal Steven Walgenbach / Inside...
Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model, Flux1.1 Pro, for 2K images
and it's absolutely mind blowing Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Black Forest Labs unveils faster, improved AI image model Flux 1.1 Pro Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog : Black Forest Labs introduces...
Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months
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