Colorado says that some partial passwords for the state's voting systems were accidentally posted online but pose no threat to the November 5 general election — WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 29 story has been corrected to reflect quotes from the CISA spokesperson in paragraph 6)
Starlink Mini review: super compact and light, can be powered by a small power bank, installs quickly at new locations, but Wi-Fi range is sometimes a concern — Impossibly small, incredibly convenient. … Space internet is the reason I've been able to work from some very remote locations …
Sources: OpenAI is working with Broadcom and TSMC to build its first in-house AI chip focusing on inference, and has scaled back its foundry ambitions — OpenAI is working with Broadcom (AVGO.O) and TSMC (2330.TW) to build its first in-house chip designed to support its artificial intelligence systems …
Google says its AI Overview summaries will begin rolling out in over 100 countries this week and will reach more than 1B monthly users with this expansion — Google's AI Overviews are expanding across more than 100 countries this week. The AI-generated search summaries will appear for users in Canada …
OpenAI's CFO: ChatGPT has 250M weekly active users, converts free users to paid at a rate of 5% to 6%, and ~75% of OpenAI's revenue is from paying consumers — - AI startup converting 5% to 6% of free users to paid products — There are more than 1 million paid users for corporate ChatGPT
Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses of brain-computer interfaces, human trials, brain implants becoming consumer devices, and more — People with severe spinal injuries will one day be able to return to work, according to executives at Precision Neuroscience
A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack — Get complete digital access — $75 per month — Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders.
An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is with Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff. Salesforce is one of the most important companies in tech history.
Q3 China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% YoY to 68.8M; Vivo grew 21.5% for a 18.6% marketshare, Apple fell 0.3% to a 15.6% share, Huawei grew 42% to 15.3% share — Apple Returns to Top 5 Smartphone Companies — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, China smartphone shipments grew 3.2% year over year …
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities — Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
Goodreads' co-founder Otis Chandler launches Smashing, an AI-powered app that aims to create a community around web content and has an AI Questions feature — Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public.
Apple releases iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2 developer betas, with features like Genmoji, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, and ChatGPT integration — Apple Intelligence just keeps on coming. — The first batch of features in Apple's much-hyped entry into the artificial intelligence boom …
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 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies …
Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film, despite a denied request, to promote Cybercab — Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk did so anyway.
xAI launches an API for “grok-beta” priced at $5 per million input tokens or $15 per million output tokens; it is unclear which AI model “grok-beta” might be — In August, Elon Musk's xAI promised to make Grok, the company's flagship generative AI model powering a number of features on X, available via an API.
About $2B has been bet on predicting the next US president on Polymarket, which has excluded US users since 2022 as part of a settlement with federal regulators — SAN FRANCISCO — Scott Owens, an amateur watchmaker in Madison, Wis., waited years for a chance to legally bet money on U.S. politics.
Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are keeping the Bitcoin they produce while an increasing number of companies are spending more on AI data centers — - Shares of firms keeping tokens they mint are lagging Bitcoin — Best performers are spending on developing AI data centers
Netherlands unveils new rules requiring an export permit to sell quantum computers, quantum measurement equipment and chipmaking tech, and more outside the EU — - Measure taking effect Dec. 1 includes chipmaking processes — Cabinet took step for national security reasons, minister says
Sources: Matt Mullenweg offered another buyout offer to Automattic staff; Mullenweg appears to have redirected staff's Blind sign-up emails to himself — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.
Prabhakar Raghavan will leave his role overseeing Google search and ads products, to be replaced by Nick Fox; Raghavan will become Chief Technologist — Prabhakar Raghavan, the most senior Google executive overseeing its search engine and ads products, is leaving the role after a four-year tenure leading …
Filings: Trump's campaign hasn't bought an ad on Snapchat this election cycle; Trump's personal Snap account, banned after January 6, 2021, remains banned — The former president, whose personal account was banned after the Capitol riot, has refused to spend campaign money on Snapchat ads …
Court filing: VMware agrees to pay $102.5M to settle a securities fraud class action lawsuit that could apply to those who traded its stock from 2018 to 2020 — Old accusations of securities fraud continue to dog VMware, with the virtualization juggernaut agreeing to pay $102.5 million …
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V — Cats and dogs, living together! — In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two of the industry's fiercest rivals …
A look at what's changed since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard a year ago: layoffs, exec departures, some Xbox exclusives on PlayStation and Switch, more — A look back at everything that's happened over the last year. — Follow Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Sources: Tether talked to several commodities trading firms about lending to them, as it hopes to face fewer regulatory restrictions than traditional lenders — - Commodity traders rely on credit lines to finance shipments — Tether CEO says any commodities work ‘in early stages’
Analysis: US regulators have secured $19B+ in eight settlements from crypto firms so far in 2024, including FTX's $12.7B, and ~$32B since January 1, 2019 — What Are the Top Crypto Enforcement Actions in the US? … FTX and Alameda's lawsuit was led by the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of...
