- Global smartwatch shipments grew 9% YoY in Q3 2023: Apple had its best-ever Q3 performance with shipments up 7% YoY, Huawei grew 56%, and Samsung fell 19% (Counterpoint Research)
- How a California college is employing data collection tools to track students' daily movements, including e-proctoring software and license plate readers (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
- A look at Anthropic's governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust that will select most its board (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
- Sources: Google delayed the public launch of Gemini from next week to January 2024, after finding that the LLM didn't reliably handle some non-English queries (Jon Victor/The Information)
- Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the entire team at the maker of photo and video apps, including its founder and CEO (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)
- How tensions between those at OpenAI for whom "AI doomerism" is a convenient cover story and those who made it a way of life may have ended the "x-risk" debate (Max Read/Read Max)
- A profile of Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, who built the $5.3B firm outside his famous family, growing from a $40M fund in 2011 to a $3.3B eighth fund (Alyson Shontell/Fortune)
- A look at the escalating battle between YouTube and ad blockers, as YouTube more frequently adapts its detection methods and rolls out new ways to serve ads (Anthony Ha/Engadget)
- How Saudi Arabia's investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as it aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports (Lewis Gordon/The Verge)
- Algorithmic trading firm XTX Markets announces the $10M AI-MO Prize for a public AI model than can win a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
- The G7 agrees on comprehensive international guidelines for generative AI, covering both developers and users, expected to be approved as soon as this month (Mayumi Hirosawa/Nikkei Asia)
- The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systemically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including those by Pichai (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- Sources: EU lawmakers can't agree on how to regulate systems like ChatGPT, with foundation models becoming the main hurdle in talks over the proposed AI Act (Reuters)
- The US, UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
- Meta says it is updating child safety features after a series of WSJ reports, including expanding its list of terms, phrases, and emojis related to child safety (Mia Sato/The Verge)