Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google plans to include the standalone Gemini app as standard on Workspace Business, Enterprise, and Frontline plans from Q4, replacing the Gemini add-on — Google is making Gemini AI a core part of its Workspace productivity suite, which could see the chatbot adopted by millions more users.
Access Now and 24+ others wrote to Pavel Durov in late 2021 asking Telegram to add transparent content rules, an appeals process, and more; Durov didn’t respond (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
Access Now and 24+ others wrote to Pavel Durov in late 2021 asking Telegram to add transparent content rules, an appeals process, and more; Durov didn’t respond — Users complained about the site to Pavel Durov three years before he was charged with spreading criminal activity
TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019 — TikTok Music will go offline on Nov. 28 and customer data will be deleted, the music division said in a post on its website.
Swedish prosecutors say Iran was behind 15K text messages sent on August 1, 2023 to sow fear in Sweden, asking recipients to exact revenge after Koran burnings (Niclas Rolander/Bloomberg)
Niclas Rolander / Bloomberg:
Swedish prosecutors say Iran was behind 15K text messages sent on August 1, 2023 to sow fear in Sweden, asking recipients to exact revenge after Koran burnings — Sweden uncovered an Iranian hacking operation to send text messages in a bid to sow fear in the Nordic country.
How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls (New York Times)
New York Times:
How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls — An illustration of a man sitting on a green chair reading a newspaper called “World News” as he looks at his phone behind it.Jackson Gibbs
On its Chinese website, Huawei says its HarmonyOS now has 10,000 apps and meta-services; the latest HarmonyOS update blocked the ability to install Android apps (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
On its Chinese website, Huawei says its HarmonyOS now has 10,000 apps and meta-services; the latest HarmonyOS update blocked the ability to install Android apps — After a few years of building out “HarmonyOS,” Huawei’s latest update has finally blocked the ability to install Android apps at all …
A profile of Goldman Sachs’ head of stock research Jim Covello, who has become Wall Street’s leading AI skeptic after joining the bank in 2000 as a tech analyst (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
A profile of Goldman Sachs’ head of stock research Jim Covello, who has become Wall Street’s leading AI skeptic after joining the bank in 2000 as a tech analyst — Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.”
Raspberry Pi reports H1 2024 revenue up 61% YoY to $144M, gross profit up 47% YoY to $34.2M, and unit volume up 31% YoY to 3.66M; RPI jumps 5%+ pre-market (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Raspberry Pi reports H1 2024 revenue up 61% YoY to $144M, gross profit up 47% YoY to $34.2M, and unit volume up 31% YoY to 3.66M; RPI jumps 5%+ pre-market — Shares rise after UK microcomputer maker publishes first earnings report since June IPO — Shares in Raspberry Pi jumped on Tuesday …
The US, Meta, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI launch the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI to advance “sustainable” AI development (US Department of State)
US Department of State:
The US, Meta, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI launch the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI to advance “sustainable” AI development — Today in New York City, on the margins of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly …
An interview with The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller on Arc Search being an operating system, competing with Chrome and Safari, monetization, AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An interview with The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller on Arc Search being an operating system, competing with Chrome and Safari, monetization, AI, and more — The Browser Company cofounder thinks it’s time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web.