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TechCrunch Here are the hottest product announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft and others so far in 2024 No surprise that Apple's annual September event included a brand new iPhone. This one, dubbed iPhone 16, was "designed around Apple Intelligence, from the ground up," CEO Tim Cook said at the time, though news out of the event was that buyers of the new models will have to wait a bit before all of the AI features are available. Along with the base 16 model, Apple also released the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, both of which feature the new A18 Pro chip.

Grok's image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources While OpenAI pursues yet another monster fundraise, it is not stealing all the oxygen in the room: AI startups building promising foundational models can still open doors, and checkbooks. Multiple sources tell us that Black Forest Labs — a startup that's building generative AI image models and came out of stealth two months ago with $31 million in funding — is closing new funding. Black Forest is not just any AI startup: The company was co-founded by the engineers who built the technology behind Stability AI.

Adam Neumann's startup Flow opens co-living community in Saudi Arabia Flow, Adam Neumann's co-living startup, opened a compound with 238 apartments in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, and Forbes has some details. The opening included an Aztec-themed hot chocolate ceremony and tote bags with the words "holy s- I'm alive" on them. The rent for the furnished units starts at $3,500 a month and includes hotel-style services such as laundry and housekeeping and amenities like pools, co-ed gyms (unusual in Saudi Arabia), and bowling alleys.

LinkedIn has stopped grabbing UK users' data for AI The U.K.'s data protection watchdog has confirmed that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has stopped processing user data for AI model training for now. Eagle-eyed privacy experts had already spotted a quiet edit LinkedIn made to its privacy policy after a backlash over grabbing people's info to train AIs — adding the U.K. to the list of European regions where it does not offer an opt-out, as it says it is not processing local users' data for this purpose.

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Yahoo Personal Finance Mortgage and refinance rates today, September 20, 2024: Experts predict rates will fall even lower These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate has dropped to just above 6%, and it could go down more. Lock in your rate today.

Yahoo News Mark Robinson, North Carolina Republican gov. candidate, decries CNN story about messages he allegedly left on porn site as 'tabloid trash' North Carolina Lt.t Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in that state, denied the accusations put forth in a CNN story published Thursday that he left numerous graphic comments on a porn site's message board.

Yahoo Personal Finance Here's what to do if your bank account application was denied Can you get denied a bank account? Unfortunately, yes. But there are steps you can take to open a bank account even if your application was rejected. Here's what to do.

Brightband sees a bright (and open source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and open source standard. Today's weather prediction and climate monitoring techniques are rooted in statistical and numerical models that are going on decades old.

Back Market lays out its plan to make refurbished phones go mainstream Back Market held a press conference on Thursday morning in Paris to talk about upcoming product launches and give an update on the company's current situation. If you're not familiar with the French startup, it operates a marketplace of refurbished electronics devices — mostly smartphones.

The EU gives Apple six months to make cross-device interoperability easier The European Commission plans to come up with its own measures that Apple has to follow to ensure interoperability if it doesn't want to pay huge fines.

LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. - but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions' data privacy rules - have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to train "content creation AI models."

Generative AI startup Runway inks deal with a major Hollywood studio Runway, a startup developing AI video tools, including video-generating models, has partnered with Lionsgate — the studio behind the "John Wick" and "Twilight" franchises — to train a custom video model on Lionsgate's movie catalog. Lionsgate vice chair Michael Burns said in a statement that the studio's "filmmakers, directors and other creative talent" will get access to the model to "augment their work." Runway says it's also considering ways to license models as templates for individual creators to build and train their own custom models.