After Elon Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter per day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says “law enforcement could take a look”
Musk announced Saturday that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a randomly selected voter who signs a petition circulated by his super PAC.
Hands-on with Apple's hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2, set for iOS 18.1: hearing aids work well, hearing protection in all modes, and a hearing test
The AirPods Pro 2 will soon offer more robust hearing protection and a new hearing aid feature. But it's the hearing test that has really hooked me.
A profile of and interview with Tim Cook on being “perfectly fine with not being first”, running Apple, Vision Pro, AI, the Design Studio, group chats, and more
The CEO of the world's most valuable company led two of the biggest product launches of his tenure this year …
Microsoft unveils 10 new AI agents for its enterprise-focused Dynamics 365 apps covering sales, finance, and more, ahead of Salesforce's Agentforce availability
AI agents are reigniting the competition between Microsoft and Salesforce. — Microsoft announced 10 new AI agents …
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 2024
Search-based chatbot seeks to raise about $500 million in what would be its fourth funding round in a year
ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions
TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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”
We declined. … Today's episode of Decoder, well — it's a ride. I'm talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi … Threads: @reckless1280 . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social . Forums: Hacker News , r/t...
UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks
Prominent cybersecurity company Sophos is acquiring another well-known firm in the industry, Secureworks, for about $859 million, the two companies announced Monday.
Sources: Tim Cook helped Nike secure Elliott Hill as CEO in September, and has carved out a role as one of Nike's closest outside advisers during a turnaround
- Cook has been on the Nike board since before the first iPhone — Nike is undergoing overhaul with new CEO after revenue misses
AMD unveils Zen 5-based X3D desktop CPUs, arriving November 7, but offers few details and no price, ahead of Intel's Core Ultra 200-series launch on October 24
AMD is officially announcing its first next-generation X3D desktop processors today, based on its latest Zen 5 architecture.
Sources: some at Apple think it is over two years behind the leaders in generative AI; a closer look at changes in Apple's HR and hardware engineering groups
note that Apple and carriers are hyping AI a lot their ads—even though the phased rollout and execution are underwhelming. 🍎🧠 Neil Cybart / @neilcybart : So much noise out there regarding Apple Intell...
Polymarket users have bet ~$2B on predicting the next US president; Polymarket has excluded US users since 2022 as part of a settlement with federal regulators
Kalshi founder Matthew Gault / Gizmodo : $30 Million Is All It Took to Shift the Odds in Trump's Favor on Polymarket Bruce Golding / International Business Times : $30 Million In Polymarket ‘Voodoo’ B...
IBM launches its open source Granite 3.0 models, including 2B and 8B general purpose versions and Mixture-of-Experts models, aimed at enterprise customers
Make no mistake about it, enterprise AI is big business, especially for IBM. — IBM already has a $2 billion book of business related …
ABI expects there to be 8,400 global data centers by 2030, as investors capitalize on the AI boom; Statista projects the industry will be worth $624B by 2029
The assets offer consistent returns but come with risks including a high environmental impact — Spending time in a warm …
Investigation: a Russian espionage and hacking campaign targeted Georgia for years and breached its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, central bank, and more
Bloomberg : X: @willneal93 , @martijnrasser , @rj_gallagher , and @albertonardelli X: Will Neal / @willneal93 : Well this is a pretty chilling read. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Martijn Rasser / @ma...
A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics
they are not convincing independents with their current strategy Scott Kupor / @skupor : “Being more specific could test the party's cohesion. Replacing enforcement officials whom big donors don't lik...
At a San Francisco protest, blind Uber and Lyft users say the companies aren't doing enough to stop drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments
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 :
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 :
Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on his Nobel Prize being “a watershed moment for AI”, biology, AlphaFold 3, Isomorphic Labs, drug programs, and more
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times :
How OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are using different approaches to improve “model behavior”, an emerging field shaping systems' responses and characteristics
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
Tracxn: Indian health tech-related startups raised $3.7B since 2022, about half of the $7.4B raised in the sector across the Asia Pacific region
Bloomberg :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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