Kuo: Apple schedules production of a smart home IP camera for 2026 and is aiming for 10M+ annual shipments; Goertek will be the exclusive assembly supplier
1. Apple is making its first foray into the smart home IP camera market, with mass production scheduled for 2026, targeting annual shipments in the tens of millions.
Meta plans to ask Facebook and Instagram users in Europe if they want to get “less personalized ads” and cuts subscription prices by 40%, a concession to the EU
Facebook and Instagram owner faces pressure in Europe to ask users before using their data to target ads or train artificial intelligence
Signal rolls out new call features, including the ability to share a link to a call, emoji reactions, a “raise hand” button, and a dedicated calls history tab
Signal is making a bunch of improvements to calls so they are more competitive with Zoom and Google Meet, including the ability to share a link to a call.
Nvidia launches its Nvidia app for Windows, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app, after a beta earlier in 2024
Nvidia is officially launching its Nvidia app on PC today, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app.
The EU notifies Apple of “potentially prohibited geo-blocking practices” on the App Store and other apps, and says it must align with EU anti-geo-blocking rules
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Rival search engines Ecosia and Qwant debut European Search Perspective, a joint venture to develop a web index for Europe to reduce reliance on Google and Bing
Generative AI and new rules targeting tech giants are giving Ecosia and Qwant fuel to challenge Google and Microsoft and develop a web index for Europe.
Bitcoin passed $89K for the first time, Tesla closed up 8.96%, Coinbase closed up 19.76%, and Robinhood closed up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades”
It Just Had Its Best One Ever Steven Walgenbach / Inside Bitcoins : BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits New Record As Polymarket Odds Of Bitcoin Hitting $100K This Year Soar Vladimir Popescu / Watcher Guru : T...
SoftBank reports Q2 net income of ~$7.7B and a Vision Fund gain of ~$2.42B, driven by strong Indian IPOs and valuation gains in startups like Coupang and Didi
- Tech investor rakes in profit on hot Indian IPO market — Legacy-conscious founder Masayoshi Son is readying next gamble
SoftBank says Vision Fund co-CEO Rajeev Misra will step down from his leadership roles; during his 10-year tenure, he led investments in WeWork, Wag, and others
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised
Writer has raised $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation to expand its generative AI platform.
Amazon's Annapurna Labs plans to unveil Trainium 2 AI chips in December, as part of taking on Nvidia; Anthropic, Databricks, and others are testing Trainium 2
Big Tech group's Annapurna Labs is spending big to build custom chips that lessen its reliance on market leader
Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps on December 31, after moving users to the new Outlook app in recent months
Microsoft is planning to no longer support the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps later this year.
Waymo opens robotaxi rides to anyone in LA within an 80-square-mile area running from downtown LA to Santa Monica and says ~300K users had been on the waitlist
The Alphabet company said about 300,000 people in the second-largest U.S. city have been waiting to use its robotic ridehail service …
Alibaba, JD, and Xiaomi report a plethora of Singles' Day sales statistics to show how 2024's shopping event was one of the biggest yet, as China's economy sags
- Data shows sales surged, but over a much longer period — Analysts warn shoppers still show signs of moderated spending
Baidu unveils smart glasses, powered by its Ernie LLM, that would “become a private assistant” by tracking calories, playing music, and more, launching in 2025
Launch comes as Chinese internet groups jostle for dominance in hardware — Baidu has unveiled artificial …
Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from 40M in May 2024 and 22M in January 2024, and 50%+ of sign-ups are for ad plans in supported countries
Brian Steinberg / Variety :
iOS 18.2 public beta introduces Share Item Location, letting users share a link with the location of AirTags or Find My accessories with airlines and others
you can now share your AirTag location with other people and airlines is coming soon Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines : 15 Airlines will be able to use AirTag Location Sharing in iOS 18.2 Christia...
Alameda Research co-CEO Sam Trabucco has agreed to hand over a slew of properties, including his yacht, to FTX creditors as part of a November 3 settlement deal
privileges other FTX executives' legal teams did not receive. @historian_ftx : FTX Drama: Trabucco Reaches Sealed Settlement Former Alameda co-CEO Sam Trabucco and FTX Digital Markets CEO Ryan Salame ...
Analysts: Nintendo and Sony are heading into the holiday season with little to offer consumers; the Switch is seven years old and the $700 PS5 Pro is overpriced
Video game industry fears its most important quarter will fall flat with few new mass-market offerings
LG Display shows off a stretchable display prototype that can expand by up to 50%, more than doubling the previous record of 20% elongation
That Stretches By Up to 50% Baba Tamim / Interesting Engineering : LG's new display expands by 50%, folds, twists and survives 10,000 stretches Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer : LG's bizarre but impressive s...
Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $2.2B, above $2.12B est., GMV up 24% YoY to $69.7B, projects Q4 revenue growth above est.; SHOP jumps 13%+
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
Filing: a Chinese court agrees to hear an Epic-like case against Apple by Bodyreader, a posture correcting app Apple removed in 2020; Bodyreader seeks ~$420K
- Beijing court agreed to hear complaint about Apple's practices — Apple is coming under pressure in its biggest overseas market
The New York Times says the Tech Guild is ending its strike after a weeklong work stoppage; during the strike, dozens of tech workers crossed the picket line
Lucia Moses / Business Insider :
A look at DeFlock, an open-source project that has crowdsourced the locations of 5,600+ automated license plate reader cameras globally from Flock and others
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Ilya Sutskever says “we're back in the age of wonder and discovery” as AI companies focus on pre-training, inference improvements, and finding the “next thing”
There's been a lot of chatter about the “end of LLMs” or “LLMs starting to fail.” Jon Keegan / Sherwood News : OpenAI models may be starting to plateau Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India Magazine : Op...
Grab reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $716M, vs $700.8M est., a $15M profit, vs. a $99M loss in Q3 2024, and raises its fiscal 2024 forecast; GRAB jumps 5%+
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters :
Canadian digital bank Neo Financial raised a CA$360M Series D from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, and others
like @goclio'@s Series C and @coinbase's Series D. Today, we're thrilled to share another investment that goes beyond our typical early-stage sweet LinkedIn: Eric Holle : Exciting news! Neo Financial...
A US indictment against two men suspected of hacking Snowflake clients, including AT&T, says the pair and their co-conspirators extorted at least 36 bitcoin
Introduction Beginning on a any particular state or district of the United States … Margi Murphy / Bloomberg : Charges Unsealed for Alleged Hackers of Snowflake Customers
Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Sea reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $4.3B and a $153.3M net income, above estimates and up from a $144M loss in Q3 2023; SE rises 5%+ pre-market
Bloomberg :
Sources: more than a year before the US election, TikTok executives relaxed moderation rules and enforcement to make the app more appealing to Donald Trump fans
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