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Sources: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-09 15:36:51

Mercor, a startup that connects companies like OpenAI and Meta with domain experts needed to train and refine their foundational AI models, is in discussions with investors for a Series C round, according to a marketing document viewed by TechCrunch and two sources familiar with the deal talks. Felicis, a returning investor, is considering doubling down on the company for the Series C, according to two sources. Felicis declined to comment. The company is currently targeting a valuation of $10

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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-10-09 16:00:00

After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cohn, who has led the San Francisco–based nonprofit since 2015, says she will leave the role later this year, concluding a chapter that helped define the modern fight over online freedom. Cohn first rose to prominence as lead counsel in Bernstein v. Department of Justice, the 1990s case that overturned federal restrictions on pu

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Apple’s Best New iOS 26 Feature Has Been on Pixel Phones for Years

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-10-09 18:53:15

Ever since I was a child, I’ve despised answering the phone when an unknown number calls. Who could be on the other end? Literally anyone: an acquaintance, a telemarketer, a serial killer who’s menacingly breathing into the mouthpiece. While Apple’s upcoming Liquid Glass refresh in iOS 26 is likely to be the most immediately noticeable aspect of the software update as it starts rolling out to the public on September 15, I believe a smaller addition in iOS 26 might even have a bigger impact on h

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Watch Apple’s AirPod Pro 3 live translation feature in action

techcrunch.com Maggie Nye 2025-10-09 12:45:00

Get a look at the real-time translation the new AirPods Pro 3 bring to your ears, which you can prompt through a gesture. Powered by Apple Intelligence, it uses noise cancellation to reduce the volume of the speaker to elevate the provided translation to the user. It came as one of several updates to the newly revealed AirPods Pro 3, which made their debut at Apple’s iPhone 17 launch event.

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Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 22:32:52

Reddit has addressed a problem where the description of subreddits originally written by moderators appeared differently—and, often, inaccurately—on Reddit’s Android app. For weeks, the problem was largely suspected to be caused by Reddit clumsily using generative AI to create new subreddit descriptions. However, Reddit says that the changes were the fault of a bug tied to its AI-powered translation technology. Reports of subreddits suddenly having inaccurate summaries when viewed on Reddit’s A

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Oracle pops 27% on cloud growth projections even as earnings miss estimates

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-10 02:48:54

Oracle shares spiked 27% in extended trading on Tuesday after the database software maker indicated hefty growth prospects due to new cloud contracts, even as earnings and revenue missed estimates. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.47 adjusted vs. $1.48 expected $1.47 adjusted vs. $1.48 expected Revenue: $14.93 billion vs. $15.04 billion expected Revenue increased 12% from $13.3 billion a year earlier during the quarter, which ended on Aug.

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As AI Reigns, Students' Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:41:07

The US Education Department, which the Trump administration is actively attempting to dismantle, has released the latest math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors — and they're an absolute disaster. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the scores have hit an all-time low, even by America's historically underwhelming standards. It's a worrying sign that the rapid rise of technologies like AI — combined with other likely factors, like the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pande

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Show HN: Vicinae – a native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:10:00

Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt. It includes a set of built-in modules, and extensions can be developed quickly using fully server-side React/TypeScript — with no browser or Electron involved. Inspired by the popular Raycast launcher, Vicinae provides a mostly compatible extension API, allowing reuse of many existing Raycast extensions with minimal modification. Vicinae is designed for developers and power users

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Pfizer says this season’s COVID shot boosts immune responses fourfold

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 02:08:41

Pfizer and BioNTech report that their updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for the 2025–2026 season produced strong immune responses, boosting neutralizing antibody levels by at least fourfold in older people and those with underlying medical conditions. The positive results come as Americans face a confusing, state-by-state patchwork of access to the shots under the health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an ardent anti-vaccine activist who has unilaterally restricted access. Prior to the second Trum

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Nebius stock soars nearly 50% on Microsoft AI deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-10 06:02:19

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models. Shares of artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared nearly 50% Tuesday, a day after the company disclosed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth up to $19.4 billion to provide cloud computing power for AI workloads. Nebius, which w

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Oracle pops 22% on cloud growth projections even as earnings miss estimates

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-10 06:51:35

Oracle CEO Safra Catz, center, speaks during a dinner at the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. President Donald Trump hosted technology and business leaders for dinner after they joined First Lady Melania Trump's meeting of the Artificial Intelligence Education Task Force at the White House. Oracle shares spiked 22% in extended trading on Tuesday after the database software maker indicated hefty growth prospects due to new cloud contracts, even as earnings and revenue missed estimates

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Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:20:19

Microsoft reportedly plans to begin using Anthropic's latest Claude models to power some of the Copilot features in its Office 365 apps. In a report published Tuesday, The Information said the tech giant would announce the change "in the coming weeks." Microsoft currently relies on OpenAI's tech to power the majority of AI features found inside of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. As an outsider looking in, Microsoft's embrace of Anthropic's models would appear to signal a deepening split be

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U.S. sanctions cyber scammers who stole billions from Americans

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:25:49

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned several large networks of cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia, which stole over $10 billion from Americans last year. These operations, mainly those in Burma and Cambodia, are notorious for using forced labor, human trafficking, and physical violence, essentially operating as modern slavery farms that conduct online fraud. The scams vary from “romance baiting” to fake cryptocurrency investing opportunities. The announcement highlights tha

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Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event

news.ycombinator.com Hayden Field 2025-10-10 05:54:23

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Apple’s hotly-anticipated Apple event was chock-full of news about updates to AirPods, the Apple Watch, the new suite of iPhones, and more. But during the one-hour-and-fifteen-minute presentation, which was considerably shorter than usual, there was one notable buzzword missing from a good chunk of the fanfare: AI. Although CEO

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UAE Lab Releases Open-Source Model to Rival China’s DeepSeek

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-10 06:05:37

The United Arab Emirates wants to compete with the U.S. and China in AI, and a new open source model may be its strongest contender yet. An Emirati AI lab called the Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Think on Tuesday, a model that researchers say rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT and China’s DeepSeek in standard benchmark tests. “With just 32 billion parameters, it outperforms flagship reasoning models that are 20x larger,” the lab wrote in a press release on Tuesday. DeepSeek’s R1 has 671 bill

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AirPods Pro 3 Can Translate Conversations Live in Your Ear

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 03:46:00

At Apple's "awe dropping" event on Sept. 9, Apple made Live Translation the signature trick for the newly announced AirPods Pro 3. A simple gesture on the AirPods Pro 3 starts the Live Translation session. Apple Intelligence parses what someone nearby says and plays the translation back in your preferred language, right in your ear, while your iPhone shows (and can speak) your reply. Your iPhone displays your reply in their language and can read it aloud. Apple When both people wear compatibl

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I Was Right Yet Again: iOS 26 Is Coming Monday, Sept. 15

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 05:28:00

Apple announced iOS 26 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but it said at the time it would release the update to the general public this fall. So I looked at past Apple events in September and earlier iOS releases to predict when the company would release iOS 26. And I was right. Apple announced online that iOS 26 will be released as a free update on Monday, Sept. 15. That means everyone has less than a week until iPhones can get new features like a Liquid Glass design, call screen

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 10, #822

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 06:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. There's a "tut" and a "tut-tut" in there -- which is pretty hilarious -- but they land in different categories. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

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After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:29:08

A new independent report finds that although NASA's ambitious mission to fly across the surface of Titan is delayed and over budget, the fault is due to the space agency's management rather than the program itself. Released Tuesday by NASA's Office of Inspector General, the report found that the mission's budget has soared from an initial figure of $850 million upon its selection in 2019 to $3.35 billion today. Additionally, the launch target has slipped from the year 2026 to 2028. However, th

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Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-10 05:15:02

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Apple’s hotly-anticipated Apple event was chock-full of news about updates to AirPods, the Apple Watch, the new suite of iPhones, and more. But during the one-hour-and-fifteen-minute presentation, which was considerably shorter than usual, there was one notable buzzword missing from a good chunk of the fanfare: AI. Although CEO

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Apple rolls out betas for iOS 18.7, macOS 15.7, and macOS 14.8

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-10 10:05:42

Alongside Release Candidates for iOS and macOS 26, Apple is also rolling out multiple public and developer beta versions for other iOS and macOS versions. Here is the full list. Post-event beta releases This has been a busy afternoon for both developers and public beta testers. Following the end of the Awe Dropping event, Apple rolled out the first release candidate versions of iOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26. But that is not all. Apple also rolled out developer and pub

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Hypertension alerts are coming to these existing Apple Watch models

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-10 10:19:09

Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 debuted today, with one of the tentpole new features being hypertension notifications. But it turns out, certain older Apple Watch models will support these hypertension alerts too. Hypertension notifications coming to three existing Apple Watch models in watchOS 26 Today after the conclusion of its ‘Awe dropping’ event, Apple debuted the RC (release candidate) version of watchOS 26. The forthcoming Apple Watch software update will ship to all users next Mond

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iOS 26 will be available next week: Find out if your iPhone is compatible with the free update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 10:33:31

The Apple iPhone 17 event just concluded, and Apple largely delivered on all of the rumors ahead of the show. The company announced the iPhone 17 lineup, the iPhone Air and several other devices. (Check out Engadget's real-time Apple event liveblog for full details.) In addition to finally seeing the new hardware, Apple confirmed after the event that we'll be able to download the final versions of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 on Monday, September 15. (That's when all of Apple's other operating system up

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Apple Is Officially Releasing iOS 26, So You Can Start Complaining About Liquid Glass for Real

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-10 10:32:52

With the launch of Apple’s new slate of iPhone 17s, iOS 26 is finally here for real. While we’ve had developer and beta versions since the summer following WWDC in June, this is the first official version that brings Liquid Glass to an entirely new generation of iPhones. According to Apple, iOS 26 will be available to everyone on Sept. 15, and will bring some new non-visual tweaks in addition to a new look. Among those new features are Visual Intelligence, which allows AI to both see and intera

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visionOS 26 available from Sep 15, with spatial widgets, new Personas and more

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-10 14:16:55

Apple has announced that visionOS 26 will be available to Vision Pro users from Monday, September 15. The latest version of the operating system will offer a raft of new features, with spatial widgets and far more realistic personas topping the list … Spatial widgets allow you to position things like clock, weather, music player, and photos in a fixed space in your environment, including the ability to embed them into walls. There’s also a brand new widgets app to find additional spatial widge

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iOS 26 RC now available ahead of next week’s launch

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-10 14:34:07

Apple has just released the iOS 26 RC (release candidate) for beta testers. Here’s what that means. All throughout the summer, iOS 26 has been in beta testing with developers and opt-in members of the public. Now today, following its iPhone 17 event, Apple has released the RC version of iOS 26. iOS 26’s RC is expected to be the final beta release before the update’s wide launch next week. This “release candidate” is available for users running the iOS 26 beta, and should offer the most stabl

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The new Live Translation feature also works with AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-10 14:54:28

Apple just unveiled the brand new AirPods Pro 3, including a flashy Live Translation feature. But it turns out you don’t actually need to upgrade just to try out the new translation stuff. Apple says that Live Translation will also be available through a software update for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation. However, there is a slight gotcha … If you have compatible AirPods, that’s only half the story, as the feature does not run natively on the AirPods itself. It actu

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Apple adds hypertension and sleep-quality monitoring to Watch Ultra 3, Series 11

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 14:17:36

At its fall product event today, Apple updated its line of smartwatches, including the introduction of features for monitoring blood pressure and analyzing the quality of your sleep. Apple Watch Series 11 Credit: Apple The Apple Watch Series 11. The Apple Watch Series 11. Credit: Apple The Apple Watch 11 is supposed to be able to alert users about "possible hypertension" by using data from an optical heart rate sensor "to analyze how a user’s blood vessels respond to the beats of the heart,"

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Apple brings live translation feature to AirPods Pro

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-10 18:10:41

Apple today announced the new AirPods Pro 3, the next-generation of AirPods hardware. One of the big new software features is Live Translation. By tapping on the stems of both buds, AirPods enter a new translation mode which cancels out background noise and listens in to your conversations. When it hears a foreign language it can understand, you hear the translated version spoken back to you through your AirPods. Apple said the new Live Translation feature is powered by Apple Intelligence, usi

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Apple announces iOS 26 release date: September 15

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-10 18:34:56

It’s one of the biggest days of Apple’s year, with the company’s ‘Awe dropping’ event headlined by the iPhone 17 lineup and other new hardware. On the software front, we got some good news too: iOS 26 is coming very soon. iOS 26 was first unveiled back in June at WWDC. Since then, the forthcoming software update has been in beta testing. After three months in beta, Apple is nearly ready to ship iOS 26 to all users. iOS 26 will officially release on Monday, September 15. New features include

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Sources: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate

Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

Apple’s Best New iOS 26 Feature Has Been on Pixel Phones for Years

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U.S. sanctions cyber scammers who stole billions from Americans

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After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch

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visionOS 26 available from Sep 15, with spatial widgets, new Personas and more

iOS 26 RC now available ahead of next week’s launch

The new Live Translation feature also works with AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4

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Apple brings live translation feature to AirPods Pro

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