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Wall Street Journal: eMarketer: Google's share of the US search ad market is expected to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, TikTok, and others rise  —  A flurry of new offerings for advertisers is hitting the market  —  Google's grip on the nearly $300 billion search advertising business is loosening.

Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, on OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more  —  Terence Tao, the world's greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI.  —  Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence.

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into “AI Neoclouds”, a new breed of cloud compute providers built to offer GPU rentals, like Crusoe, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave, and their economics  —  H100 Rental Price Cuts, AI Neocloud Giants and Emerging Neoclouds, H100 Cluster Bill of Materials and Cluster Deployment …

Wes Davis / The Verge: Google rolls out Android theft protection features: Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to detect motion indicating theft, Offline Device Lock, and Remote Lock  —  Google is rolling out a new set of features aimed at making it less easy for thieves to access your data.

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Grindr is testing an AI “wingman” that would let users track conversations with their “favorite” users, recommend long-term relationship candidates, and more  —  The dating app is testing an AI bot for gay and bi men that would scout for long-term relationship prospects …

Jay Peters / The Verge: An interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney about how the company became “financially sound”, Unreal Engine 6, building a “persistent universe” with Disney, and more  —  Just over a year ago, Epic Games laid off around 16 percent of its employees.

Ben Blanchard / Reuters: Foxconn Q3: revenue up 20.2% YoY to ~$57.3B, vs ~$55.4B est., on strong AI server demand; consumer electronics revenue, including from iPhones, was flat YoY  —  Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW), the world's largest contract electronics maker, beat expectations to post its highest-ever revenue …

Emma Roth / The Verge: Mullenweg says WordPress.org “belongs to me personally”, as his WP Engine feud blurs the lines between WordPress.org, the WordPress Foundation, and Automattic  —  The lines between the WordPress open-source project, the nonprofit backing it, and the commercial arm owned by Automattic are blurring.

Alan Suderman / Associated Press: A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021  —  The future was once dazzling for IronNet.  Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked …

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: How Beixiazhu, a Chinese village where merchants struck gold during the livestream ecommerce boom on Douyin, Kuaishou, and other apps, became a ghost town  —  To the unsuspecting outsider, Beixiazhu looks like any unremarkable Chinese village.  But for years, this was the place …

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral for its AI-generated “deep dive” podcasts with two 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.

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.

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 in 2023  —  Homeland Security Investigations is stopping hacks before they occur.  —  A cybercrime-focused division of the US Department …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Pooja Salhotra / The Texas Tribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TikTok for allegedly violating a new state law by sharing and selling minors' personal info without parental consent; TikTok denies it  —  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.

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 …

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Sources: the iPhone SE 4, coming in spring 2025, will have Apple's first 5G modem, the iPhone 15's rear camera, and an A18 and 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence  —  Apple has been working on a new generation of the iPhone SE, and a recent Bloomberg report revealed that it should be introduced …

Google Developers Blog: Google releases Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller and faster 1.5 Flash variant with a 50% lower price, 2x higher rate limits, and lower latency on small prompts  —  Today, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, our latest Flash variant, is production-ready and comes with:  —  Developers can access gemini-1.5-flash-8b …

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: The US and Microsoft seize 107 websites used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies in the US operating under Star Blizzard, a group active since 2016  —  - Russian group Star Blizzard targeted civil society, US says  — Group has conducted election influence operations in UK

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches canvas, a ChatGPT interface with a workspace for writing and coding projects, similar to Anthropic's Artifacts, in beta for Plus and Team users  —  OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.”

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: How Sam Altman concentrated his power as OpenAI's CEO since he was fired and rehired 11 months ago; source: Altman is not looking to hire a CTO for now  —  Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research.