Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies
- Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022 — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation
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
The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death. — THE SHIFT
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
Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset since the early summer and could stop making …
Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health
How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World
Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP
This article was produced with support from the Capitol Forum. — On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe.
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation
Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Claude Sonnet 3.5 hands-on: the AI understood a basic game and its mechanics, had a strategy, was willing to revise it based on learning, but fragilities remain
Some quick impressions of an actual agent — There seems to be near-universal belief in AI that agents are the next big thing.
An interview with Craig Federighi on the launch of Apple Intelligence features like notification summaries in iOS 18.1, Siri, Apple's AI strategy, and more
Our columnist reviews the first wave of AI features coming to iPhones with iOS 18.1, and asks Apple's software chief why so much is still missing
The US CFPB says Goldman Sachs and Apple will pay $89M following a long-running Apple Card investigation; Goldman must pay $64.8M and Apple must pay $25M
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the action concerned customer service breakdowns and misrepresentations that affected hundreds …
Sources: Apple is working on a new App Store-like app dedicated to games that will integrate with the user's Game Center profile
It's been a month since Apple released iOS 18 to the public, but the company is already working on future software updates. Interestingly, as Apple …
China says Tim Cook said Apple would “continue to grow its investments in China” in a meeting with its top tech official, during his second visit in 2024
How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World … Quicktake
Source: in mid-October, TSMC halted shipments to a client after it discovered that chips fabricated for that entity had found their way into Huawei products
- TSMC halted shipments immediately after discovery this month — The company has notified Taipei, Washington as it investigates
Google rolls out enhanced scam detection to Google Messages beta users and previews other safety features, like an option to blur images that may contain nudity
The latest round of new features for Google Messages is focused on safety, like “Sensitive Content Warnings” for images that contain nudity.
Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps
“I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7, a dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 access point that covers up to 15,000 square feet with speeds up to 2.1Gbps
Mesh Wi-Fi pioneer Eero is tackling a new frontier: the outdoors. Today, the Amazon-owned company announced the Eero Outdoor 7.
A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin and a rising MAGA star; sources: Shanahan and Brin's marriage drove a wedge between Brin and Larry Page
With a massive divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the former Democrat and RFK Jr. running mate is remaking herself … Threads: @pkafka . X: @nitashatiku , @_cingraham , @nkulw , @we...
Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting app, free to users, removing a subscription for premium features, to compete with Procreate and others
Adobe is attempting to lure illustrators to join its creative software platform by making its dedicated drawing and painting app entirely free for everyone.
Meta's Oversight Board says it has “serious concerns” about Meta's moderation in “electoral contexts”, after Meta removed a satirical image of Harris and Walz
It warned Meta that “overenforcing” its rules could “lead to the excessive removal of political speech.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says a flaw in Blackwell AI chips that impacted production has been fixed with TSMC's help and the issue was “100% Nvidia's fault”
Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday a design flaw with its latest Blackwell AI chips which impacted production …
TikTok brings its STEM feed to all users in the US, the UK, and Ireland by default to help find educational content, after launching the feed to under-18 users
TikTok announced on Wednesday that it's bringing its STEM feed to all users in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland by default.
Huawei launches HarmonyOS 5.0 and says 1B+ devices run on HarmonyOS including smartphones, PCs, and cars, and the OS has 15K+ apps, up 10x from earlier in 2024
its game-changing, self-developed OS with no ties to Android! This is the 5th version of HarmonyOS, already powering over 1 billion devices worldwide. Get ready for a whole new experience! What doesn'...
How advances in AI and autonomous systems, new tech, and lower costs are shifting global wars towards “precise mass”, or the mass deployment of uncrewed systems
"Militaries are beginning to realize that they don't have to choose between precision and mass; they can have both." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... Shashank Joshi / @shashj : “One report suggests...
India's Supreme Court strikes down a tribunal order that let Byju's settle debts with India's cricket board, pushing the edtech startup firmly toward insolvency
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Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack
The companies fined are: Avaya, Check Point, Mimecast, and Unysis. — https://techcrunch.com/... X: Mike Swift / @swiftstories : The @SECGov is starting to hand out some real #cybersecurity fines, ...
Texas Instruments says it is nearing recovery after Q3 sales fell for the eighth straight quarter to $4.15B, down 8.4% YoY, and projects Q4 sales below est.
Ian King / Bloomberg :
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 :
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
Google makes SynthID Text, which lets developers watermark and detect text generated by AI models, generally available
Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text generated by generative AI models, generally available.
OpenAI and Microsoft announce a $10M AI local news project operated by the Lenfest Institute, starting with five US metro news organizations
$5M funding for fellowships, $5M credits for OpenAI and Azure products —No data licensing deal, just funding experimentation/fellowships More on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @lenfestinst : Today ...
Amazon begins testing a new shopping app homepage on Android and iOS with millions of US users, adding bigger graphics and an emphasis on horizontal scrolling
Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge :
In its first annual report, Walmart's PhonePe reports FY 2024 revenue grew 74% YoY to ~$602M, net losses down 28% YoY to ~$237M, and 200M MAUs as of March 2024
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg :
Suchir Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, says OpenAI's use of copyrighted data violated the law and ChatGPT damages the internet; he left in August 2024
Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. Among other projects …
Paytm receives regulatory approval to resume adding UPI payments users, following an eight-month Reserve Bank of India's restrictions on many of its operations
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Qualcomm partners with Google to help automakers develop AI voice assistants and unveils two new chips to power dashboards and self-driving features
here's what it could mean Michael Carroll / Mobile World Live : Qualcomm, Google gen up automotive sector Jamie Harris / The Sun : AI is coming to CARS next with voice assistants that know where you n...
Infinitus, which uses AI to automate health care tasks, raised $51.5M led by a16z, a source says at a $600M+ valuation, taking its total funding to $102.9M
Bloomberg :
Joseph Gordon-Levitt criticizes AI, calling Hollywood a “canary in the coal mine” for other industries, and says studios “own the IP and I don't own any of it”
Actor says AI companies use movies and TV to make money without fairly compensating actors; industry should ‘get ahead of that flood’
Stream.Security, which offers real-time cloud threat and exposure management solutions for enterprises, raised a $30M Series B led by U.S. Venture Partners
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Sources: Shein's revenue growth slowed to 23% YoY to $18B in H1 2024 and its profit declined 70%+ YoY to just under $400M, as competition with Temu intensifies
The Information :
NYC-based Tennr, which uses AI-based document parsing and workflow automation to reduce waiting times for patients, raised a $37M Series B led by Lightspeed
The last time I posted 6 months ago (for our Series A) …
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