Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta’s head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware — Meta’s former head of augmented reality glasses announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn.
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG’s office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG’s office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG — – Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations — Firm in early talks with California attorney general’s office
Sources: Apple is conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, focused on smart glasses and involving employee feedback on products currently on the market (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is conducting an internal study, codenamed Atlas, focused on smart glasses and involving employee feedback on products currently on the market — – Company’s hardware division is researching idea with employees — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category
A judge denies Philadelphia DA’s emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk’s America PAC ahead of the US election (NBC News)
NBC News:
A judge denies Philadelphia DA’s emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk’s America PAC ahead of the US election — A Pennsylvania judge declined to issue an emergency injunction Monday, allowing Elon Musk’s super PAC to continue its cash giveaway to registered voters.
Sources: ByteDance’s international revenue grew 60%+ YoY to about $17B in H1 2024, and overall revenue grew 35% to about $73B, after growing 40% in H1 2023 (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: ByteDance’s international revenue grew 60%+ YoY to about $17B in H1 2024, and overall revenue grew 35% to about $73B, after growing 40% in H1 2023 — TikTok parent ByteDance increased its international revenue more than 60% to about $17 billion in the first half of 2024 …
Source: Meta informed ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after polls close (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Meta informed ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after polls close — – It later adjusted its policies to temporarily stop all social issue, electoral, or political ads from running after the polls closed on November 3rd.
ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it’s unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it’s far from being a “Google killer” (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it’s unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it’s far from being a “Google killer” — Last week, OpenAI released its highly anticipated search product, ChatGPT Search, to take on Google.
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US — On Monday, Amazon announced X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, touting the generative-AI-based feature as …
T-Mobile to use OpenAI tech for a customer service bot slated for next year that can refer to customer-specific data, and will pay OpenAI $100M over three years (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
T-Mobile to use OpenAI tech for a customer service bot slated for next year that can refer to customer-specific data, and will pay OpenAI $100M over three years — T-Mobile agreed to pay OpenAI roughly $100 million over the next three years as part of a deal to use the startup’s technology, The Information reported on Monday.
Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to $725.5M, vs. $701.1M est., and raises 2024 revenue forecast again on robust AI adoption; PLTR jumps 11%+ after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to $725.5M, vs. $701.1M est., and raises 2024 revenue forecast again on robust AI adoption; PLTR jumps 11%+ after hours — Palantir Technologies (PLTR.N) on Monday raised its annual revenue forecast for the third time, betting on strong spending …
