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Anthropic's newest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is reportedly equal to
or better than OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini across a wide
variety of tasks. The model performs well in benchmarks, suggesting
that Anthropic has built a legitimate competitor in the space. Claude
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to developers as well. Anthropic is introducing a new feature called
Artifacts that will allow users to see, interact with, and edit the
results of their Claude requests.

DELL SAID RETURN TO THE OFFICE OR ELSEÄNEARLY HALF OF WORKERS CHOSE
"OR ELSE" (2 MINUTE READ) [6]

Dell announced a return-to-office initiative earlier this year that
involved workers having to classify themselves as remote or hybrid.
Those who chose to classify themselves as remote had to agree that
they could no longer be promoted or hired into new roles within the
company. Nearly 50% of Dell's workforce opted to stay remote. Many
interviewed employees admitted that they were looking for work at
other companies that weren't trying to force employees back to the
office. Many other companies are struggling to restore in-person work.


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SPACEX UNVEILS BACKPACK-SIZED `STARLINK MINI' SATELLITE INTERNET
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SpaceX is rolling out a mobile option for its satellite internet
customers. Starlink Mini is a backpack-sized kit designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go. SpaceX is offering a
limited number of the antennas for $599 in an early access release.
Service for the Starlink Mini will be effectively $150 a month and
capped at 50 gigabytes of data per month. SpaceX has not announced
when Starlink Mini deliveries will begin.

GILEAD'S TWICE-YEARLY SHOT TO PREVENT HIV SUCCEEDS IN LATE-STAGE
TRIAL (3 MINUTE READ) [8]

Gilead's lenacapavir was 100% effective in preventing HIV in roughly
2,000 women in a late-stage trial. The results will need to be
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NEW IOS 18 API BRINGS AIRPODS SETUP EXPERIENCE TO THIRD-PARTY
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AccessorySetupKit is a new API in iOS 18 that gives third-party
accessories the same setup experience as Apple accessories such as
AirPods and AirTag. Devices running iOS 18 will show a pairing
confirmation popup when the right app detects a compatible accessory.
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MISCELLANEOUS

WHY AMERICANS AREN'T BUYING MORE EVS (14 MINUTE READ) [14]

Electric vehicles are still too expensive to be accessible to
millions of Americans. High prices, high interest rates, and concerns
over driving range and charging infrastructure have chilled buyers'
enthusiasm, even among those who consider themselves green. The US
government has set policies that hit Chinese manufacturers of cars,
batteries, and other components with punitive taxes. It also restricts
federal tax incentives for consumers buying Chinese products. While
the laws aim to allow the US to develop its own supply chains,
analysts say such protectionism will result in higher EV prices for US consumers in the meantime and slow down EV adoption in the US.

ASK HN: COULD AI BE A DOT COM SIZED BUBBLE? (HACKER NEWS THREAD) [15]


While generative AI will likely be incredibly important in the
future, there seems to be a lot of high expectations of how useful it
can be in the near future, and ideas around business models are fuzzy
like in the dot com era. If these near-future expectations don't pan
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NEW YORK BANS `ADDICTIVE FEEDS' FOR TEENS (3 MINUTE READ) [18]

New York has introduced two new bills - one will require parental
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data collection on minors without consent and restrict the sale of
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TIKTOK MAKES ITS FIRST AMENDMENT CASE (5 MINUTE READ) [19]

TikTok claims that the government didn't adequately consider viable alternatives before charging ahead with a law that could ban the
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APPLE INTELLIGENCE AND AI MAXIMALISM (13 MINUTE READ) [21]

Apple's AI strategy points to large language models being commodity infrastructure, not platforms or products.

GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEWS RELYING MUCH LESS ON REDDIT (2 MINUTE READ)
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Google has apparently toned down Reddit's influence on search results
that use AI Overviews and significantly dropped the number of
delivered AI Overview results overall.

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