Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI’s founding team as a research scientist — Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic.
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the company’s AI agent progress, like transacting with third parties on users’ behalf, which is still a ways off (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired:
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on the company’s AI agent progress, like transacting with third parties on users’ behalf, which is still a ways off — Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is overseeing an overhaul that gives Copilot an empathetic voice, the ability to see, and more advanced reasoning skills.
Sources: Apple nears production of an updated iPhone SE with a design that drops the home button and plans a new iPad mini this year and iPad Air models in 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple nears production of an updated iPhone SE with a design that drops the home button and plans a new iPad mini this year and iPad Air models in 2025 — – New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025
DataPelago launches from stealth with a “universal data processing engine” for “accelerated computing” workloads, with $47M in seed and Series A funding (Rick Whiting/CRN)
Rick Whiting / CRN:
DataPelago launches from stealth with a “universal data processing engine” for “accelerated computing” workloads, with $47M in seed and Series A funding — DataPelago says its new technology provides a data processing boost for advanced analytics and AI applications …
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
Sources say many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in the middle of arguments between teams (Fortune)
Fortune:
Sources say many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in the middle of arguments between teams — When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer …
OpenAI debuts a public beta of its Realtime API to quickly make speech-to-speech features, a way to use images to fine-tune GPT-4o uses via its API, and more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts a public beta of its Realtime API to quickly make speech-to-speech features, a way to use images to fine-tune GPT-4o uses via its API, and more — It’s been a tumultuous week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the startup back at it …
Epic debuts a program to reduce the royalty rate for games built with Unreal Engine from 5% to 3.5% if they launch on the Epic Game Store, starting in 2025 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic debuts a program to reduce the royalty rate for games built with Unreal Engine from 5% to 3.5% if they launch on the Epic Game Store, starting in 2025 — Epic is offering better terms for developers who build games with Unreal Engine and list them on the Epic Games Store.
The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of violating staff’s rights to organize and advocate for working conditions via allegedly unlawful workplace rules (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of violating staff’s rights to organize and advocate for working conditions via allegedly unlawful workplace rules — A U.S. labor board issued a complaint accusing Apple (AAPL.O) of violating employees’ rights to organize and advocate …
As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders — – Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers
