A look at Google NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral thanks to its the Deep Dive podcast with two AI hosts (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Google NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral thanks to its the Deep Dive podcast with two AI hosts  —  With this Google tool, you can now listen to a show about any topic you could possibly imagine.  You won’t believe your ears.

An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-off, hands-off driving system, but does not provide a timeline for when it might become publicly available (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
An executive says GM is working on a Level 3 eyes-off, hands-off driving system, but does not provide a timeline for when it might become publicly available  —  Seven years ago, GM became the first automaker to offer hands-free driving when it rolled out its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system.

Cyber Crimes Center, a division of the US DHS, says it has disrupted 500+ ransomware attacks and seized $4.3B in crypto since 2021, including $180M last year (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)

Jeff Stone / Bloomberg:
Cyber Crimes Center, a division of the US DHS, says it has disrupted 500+ ransomware attacks and seized $4.3B in crypto since 2021, including $180M last year  —  Homeland Security Investigations is stopping hacks before they occur.  —  A cybercrime-focused division of the US Department …

In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris’ campaign; he endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios:
In an email to a16z employees, Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris’ campaign; he endorsed Trump in July  —  – At the time, President Biden was still running for reelection. … – He notes that he and Felicia have known Harris …

Apple’s AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Apple’s AI research team releases Depth Pro, an AI model that can generate a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU, using a single image  —  Apple’s AI research team has developed a new model that could significantly advance how machines perceive depth …

As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically “neutral”, some argue he’s placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically “neutral”, some argue he’s placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions  —  Meta chief seeks neutral stance ahead of US election but critics argue he is placating critics such as Trump

Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer:
Cloudflare says it stopped a month long DDoS campaign targeting orgs in financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, that peaked at 3.8Tbps  —  During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors …