Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google is “running a small experiment” showing blue verified checkmarks beside business links in its search results that indicate the company is genuine — Google is experimenting with a new verification feature in search that should make it easier for users to avoid clicking on fake or fraudulent website links.
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4% of staff, accepted a generous buyout package offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, ~8.4% of staff, accepted a generous buyout package offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress — Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package …
A postmortem of HyperWrite’s Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn’t reproduce some claimed results (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
A postmortem of HyperWrite’s Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn’t reproduce some claimed results — On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) …
Google says it’ll stop linking to news content and cut ties with news orgs in New Zealand if the country passes law forcing digital platforms to pay for content (Lucy Craymer/Reuters)
Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
Google says it’ll stop linking to news content and cut ties with news orgs in New Zealand if the country passes law forcing digital platforms to pay for content — Google said on Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organisations …
CCData: Binance’s trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
CCData: Binance’s trading volume in the $2T digital asset market fell from 42.7% at the start of 2024 to 36.6% in September, the lowest share since January 2021 — – Overall market share fell to 36.6% last month, CCData says — Binance saw the most severe share drop among top exchanges
Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: ElevenLabs is raising a new round that could value it at up to $3B; source: its ARR has grown from $25M at the end of 2023 to ~$80M in recent months — ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round …
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple releases iPadOS 18.0.1, bringing iPadOS 18 to the M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since pulling the update for the devices after reports of bricking — Apple today released iPadOS 18..1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since …
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Voyage AI, which helps companies build RAG systems, raised a $20M Series A from CRV, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, bringing its total funding to $28M — AI tends to make things up. That’s unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses …
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors’ personal information without parental consent (Pooja Salhotra/The Texas Tribune)
Pooja Salhotra / The Texas Tribune:
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors’ personal information without parental consent — The attorney general argues that the popular short form video app has not complied with a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active online.
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring, will have Apple’s first 5G modem, A18 and 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence, and same rear camera as iPhone 15 — Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …
