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David Heaney / UploadVR: Meta’s Quest 3 is scheduled to get upper body tracking and AI estimated legs, called Generative Legs, in a software update in December  —  Quest 3 is scheduled to get upper body tracking and AI estimated legs in a software update in December.  —  All other major VR systems only track your head and hands … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: on October 5, Linda Yaccarino plans to meet with the seven banks that helped fund Elon Musk’s takeover of X to lay out her plans to revive the company  —  Linda Yaccarino is next week planning to meet the seven banks that helped bankroll Elon Musk’s takeover of X, formerly known as Twitter … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: The Cyberspace Administration of China unveils rules to relax some cross-border data controls, in a bid to reassure businesses worried about US-China relations  —  Draft rules from cyber regulator aim to stem concerns over transfer of foreign business data  —  China has moved to water … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lex Fridman / Lex Fridman Podcast: In an interview using Meta’s photorealistic Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg talks about the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity’s future  —  – Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast  —  Table of Contents  —  Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google opens its Search Generative Experience to US teens ages 13-17, adds more context on how a response was generated, and improves offensive query detection  —  Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers, the company announced on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft discussed selling Bing to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search engine on Apple’s devices  —  – Microsoft executives pitched Apple’s Cue on a deal around 2020  — Apple ultimately stuck with Google as default search engine Lees verder op Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: Google unveils the Fitbit Charge 6, with a haptic side button, integration with Google services like YouTube Music, and more, available on October 12 for $160  —  Fitbit is back with the Charge 6 — and on paper, this one feels like the most Fitbit-y Fitbit since Google actively began folding the company into its ecosystem. Lees verder op Tech Meme

DealStreetAsia: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Enflame raised a ~$273.7M Series D from state capital operator Shanghai International Group’s funds, Tencent, Meitu, and others  —  Enflame Technology, a Tencent-backed Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chip maker, announced on Thursday the completion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search  —  Google just announced it’s giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company’s AI models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: France’s competition authority raided a “graphics cards sector” company this week as part of a cloud-computing inquiry; sources say the target was Nvidia  —  France’s competition authority has expressed concerns that established companies in the sector could exclude smaller ones Lees verder op Tech Meme