CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024
In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims …
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T
- Connor Moucka taken into custody on provisional arrest warrant — Stolen logins used to access Snowflake customer accounts
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help the NYT was “to provide technical infra support” and “not to replace journalists or engineers”
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services …
Nintendo reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $1.8B, net profit down 69% YoY to ~$182.5M, and lowers its FY 2025 Switch sales forecast to 12.5M from 13.5M
Nintendo on Tuesday cut forecast for Switch sales for its fiscal year ending March 2025 as demand wanes for its ageing console.
The UK CMA says it would approve the £15B Vodafone-Three merger if they commit to investing £11B to upgrade the UK's network, ahead of a December 7 decision
- CMA calls for short term protections to prevent price hikes — The £15 billion ($19.5 billion) …
Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses by conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, to gather employee feedback on products on the market
- Company's hardware division is researching idea with employees — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category
Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware
Meta's former head of augmented reality glasses announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn.
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”
Wikipedia is facing mounting regulatory pressure in India as local authorities question whether the platform …
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering
Investigators searched the offices of U.S. streaming giant Netflix (NFLX.O) in France and the Netherlands as part …
Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including large Instagram meme accounts, to promote election betting despite being banned in the US
- Content creators contacted by Polymarket's growth director — US audience targeted with ads despite ban on trade in US
SemiAnalysis: in a first, AMD overtook Intel in data center revenue in Q3 2024; AMD hit $3.55B, above Intel's $3.3B revenue, which is down from $6B+ in Q1 2022
But both fall far behind sales of Nvidia's AI GPUs. — For well more than two decades, Intel has been the undisputed leader in the market for datacenter CPUs.
Robinhood, Kraken, and others unveil the Global Dollar Network to accelerate stablecoin usage and launch USDG, a Paxos-issued stablecoin pegged to the US dollar
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iOS 18.2's second developer beta shows a “daily limit” for free access to “advanced” ChatGPT via Siri and an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in Settings
here's the new Apple Intelligence features for your iPhone Jay Peters / The Verge : Apple will let you upgrade to ChatGPT Plus right from Settings in iOS 18.2 iClarified : iOS 18.2 Beta 2 Introduces A...
A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election
“The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” Gober said Monday. “We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.” Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : What if ...
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US
here's how Nik Roseveare / Advanced Television : Prime Video rolls out X-Ray Recaps feature Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin : Amazon Prime Video's new X-Ray Recaps uses AI to recap what you're watching K...
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG's office to become a for-profit company; a letter says OpenAI also discussed it with Delaware's AG
- Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations — Firm in early talks with California attorney general's office
Meta informs ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, and Lockheed Martin using Llama
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 review: the new $60 screen is easy to build, works with the latest OS, and holds the Pi on its back, but scrolling can be awkward
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware :
ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”
goodbye, Google Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2024 Adrianna Nine / ExtremeTech : OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search to Paid Users Matthew Broersma / Si...
TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says the chipmaker now expects to pay more for power in Taiwan than anywhere else; TSMC's electricity prices rose 25% in April 2024
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times :
Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to $725.5M, vs. $701.1M est., and raises 2024 revenue forecast again on robust AI adoption; PLTR jumps 20%+
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters :
GlobalFoundries reports Q3 revenue down 6% YoY to $1.7B and expects Q4 revenue of $1.8B-$1.85B, vs. $1.8B est., driven by smartphone chip demand; GFS jumps 11%+
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters :
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku at $1 per million input tokens, up 4x from Claude 3.0 Haiku's ¢25 per million tokens, and without image analysis features
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Haiku today, a few days later than expected … X: @anthropicai : During final testing, Haiku surpassed Claude 3 Opus, our previous flagship model, on many benchmarks—at a ...
Google, Temasek, and Bain expect online spending in Southeast Asia to rise 15% YoY to $263B in 2024, the lowest growth rate since at least 2017, amid inflation
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg :
Sources: ByteDance's international revenue grew 60%+ YoY to ~$17B in H1 2024, and overall revenue grew 35% YoY to ~$73B, after growing 40% YoY in H1 2023
The Information :
AppGrowing: in Q3, Moonshot, Zhipu, ByteDance, Alibaba, and other Chinese AI companies spent ~$70.2M to promote their AI chatbots, as the market gets crowded
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post :
T-Mobile plans to use OpenAI's tech for a customer service bot slated for 2025 that can refer to customer-specific data, and will pay $100M over three years
Aaron Holmes / The Information :
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