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Global smartwatch shipments grew 9% YoY in Q3 2023: Apple had its best-ever Q3 performance with shipments up 7% YoY, Huawei grew 56%, and Samsung fell 19% (Counterpoint Research)
The second ‘Halo’ season has a release date and a teaser trailer
How a California college is employing data collection tools to track students' daily movements, including e-proctoring software and license plate readers (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
Tesla releases the Cybertruck, Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI, and Evernote cripples its free plan
A look at Anthropic's governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust that will select most its board (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
Fortnite’s Eminem concert teased the future of the game
Fortnite and Lego join forces for ‘survival crafting’ game
Sources: Google delayed the public launch of Gemini from next week to January 2024, after finding that the LLM didn't reliably handle some non-English queries (Jon Victor/The Information)
Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the entire team at the maker of photo and video apps, including its founder and CEO (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)
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Google reveals the next step in its war on ad blockers: slower extension updates
How tensions between those at OpenAI for whom "AI doomerism" is a convenient cover story and those who made it a way of life may have ended the "x-risk" debate (Max Read/Read Max)
Deal Dive: Betting on beauty fads is big business
Amazon’s first Fallout trailer welcomes you to the wasteland
Cyberpunk 2077 gets big send off with one last update that includes a working metro
I’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible
Robotics Q&A with Meta’s Dhruv Batra
A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund (Alyson Shontell/Fortune)
Here’s how a bridal photo captured a single person in three poses at once
EA's latest patent will let players use their voice for in-game characters
It’s time for a heat check on the subscription economy and its proposed value to customers
ChatGPT Spit Out Sensitive Data When Told to Repeat ‘Poem’ Forever
The Ember Tumbler is a cool, high-tech travel mug — but it can’t handle the heat
Climate Cookbooks Are Here to Change How You Eat
A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads (Anthony Ha/Engadget)
Intel Z790 Motherboard Roundup: 11 Motherboards Tested
Withings ScanWatch 2 Review: Attractive Smartwatch Hybrid, Pricey Subscription
Climate tech is back—and this time, it can’t afford to fail
Was Bobi the World’s Oldest Dog—or a Fraud?
Ozempic Could Also Help You Drink Less Alcohol
Inside Kick, an Upstart Streaming Competitor to Twitch
Netflix Builds a ‘Squid Game’ Universe as It Awaits a Second Season
How Saudi Arabia's investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as it aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports (Lewis Gordon/The Verge)
Algorithmic trading firm XTX Markets announces the $10M AI-MO Prize for a public AI model than can win a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
The G7 agrees on comprehensive international guidelines for generative AI, covering both developers and users, expected to be approved as soon as this month (Mayumi Hirosawa/Nikkei Asia)
The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systemically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including those by Pichai (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sources: EU lawmakers can't agree on how to regulate systems like ChatGPT, with foundation models becoming the main hurdle in talks over the proposed AI Act (Reuters)
The US, UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
Meta says it is updating child safety features after a series of WSJ reports, including expanding its list of terms, phrases, and emojis related to child safety (Mia Sato/The Verge)
An interview with Guillaume Verdon, founder of stealth AI startup Extropic who is behind the @BasedBeffJezos persona at the center of effective accelerationism (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences "severe hallucinations" and leaks "confidential data" like AWS data center locations (Platformer)
Meta announces Seamless Communication, a suite of AI translation models that aim to enable more natural and authentic communication across languages (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats
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Filing: 23andMe says hackers accessed accounts of 0.1% of its customer base in the company's recent data breach; 23andMe reported 14M+ customers in May 2023 (TechCrunch)
Samsung Galaxy S24 leaks suggest a titanium build, flattened screen, and more
Be careful who's selling you that high-end RDNA 3 GPU, especially on Amazon
In firing Altman, OpenAI’s board wanted to keep the element of surprise
23andMe says hackers accessed ‘significant number’ of files about users’ ancestry
15 Best Mattresses You Can Buy Online (2023)
Ev startup Fisker cut its 2023 production target for the fourth time
An in-depth look at China's efforts to help Huawei build a self-sufficient chip supply chain via a network of enterprises backed by Shenzhen's investment fund (Bloomberg)
SpaceX will take some Amazon satellites to space
OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos
YouTuber builds mind-blowingly complex kinetic PC case
AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more
You should update your iPhone, iPad, or Mac now
Amazon signs a contract with SpaceX for three launches of Falcon 9 rocket to help launch its Project Kuiper satellite constellation (Bloomberg)
Phil Spencer says Microsoft has "no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo" after Xbox CFO Tim Stuart said Microsoft wants to target "every screen" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
When It Comes to January 6 Lawsuits, a Court Splits Donald Trump in Two
A councilman for the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre reveals that a resolution that the city council approved unanimously in October 2023 was written by ChatGPT (Associated Press)
Amazon Fire TVs have found a new and annoying way to slap you in the face with ads
What’s up with Tesla’s Cybertruck? Everything to know about the much-hyped electric pickup
Thief: The Dark Project gets a new, fan-made expansion