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Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli / Financial Times: An interview with EssilorLuxottica CEO Francesco Milleri on the Meta partnership, smart glasses replacing smartphones, and more, as the firm is valued at €100B  —  Eyewear giant chief Francesco Milleri says wearable technology developed with Meta will fuel growth Source link

Microsoft predicted increased spending on artificial intelligence this quarter but slower growth in its cloud business Azure, signaling that big AI investments were not enough to keep pace with capacity constraints at its data centers. Shares of the Redmond, Washington-based company dipped 3.6% in after-market trading, giving up earlier gains. The company beat Wall Street’s

Bloomberg: Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook’s former global head of engineering Jay Parikh joins Microsoft’s senior leadership team and will report directly to Satya Nadella  —  – Company struggling to ramp up data centers to meet AI demand  — Jay Parikh will report directly to Microsoft CEO Nadella Source link

YouTube is reportedly testing a new homepage without view count and upload date information. When the claim surfaced online, users expressed their dissatisfaction with the alleged update. Some appreciated the removal of the view count alongside the thumbnails but most people claimed that removing the upload date information would be a disservice, especially in terms

Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Starlink Mini review: super compact and light, can be powered by a small power bank, installs quickly at new locations, but Wi-Fi range is sometimes a concern  —  Impossibly small, incredibly convenient. … Space internet is the reason I’ve been able to work from some very remote locations … Source

India’s Jio Payment Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Group firm Jio Financial Services, has received the central bank’s approval to operate as an online payment aggregator, Jio Financial said on Tuesday. A payment aggregator is a third-party service provider that enables customers to make and businesses to accept payments online. Payment

Financial Times: A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack  —  Get complete digital access  —  $75 per month  —  Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders.

Mira Murati, former chief technology officer at OpenAI, is raising funds from venture capitalists for her new AI startup, according to sources familiar with the matter. The new company aims to build AI products based on proprietary models, said one of the sources who requested anonymity to discuss private matters. It is not clear if

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating how much equity Microsoft gets when OpenAI becomes a for-profit company, for which OpenAI has two years  —  The two companies have hired investment banks to help negotiate how much equity Microsoft gets when OpenAI becomes a for-profit company Source link

Google has asked a California federal judge to pause his sweeping court order requiring it to open up its app store Play to greater competition. In a court filing on Friday night, Google said US District Judge James Donato’s injunction order, which goes into effect on November 1, would harm the company and introduce “serious safety,