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OpenAI scales its capital raise back to 20 billion dollars as big investors hesitate
According to the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, the ChatGPT maker has so far secured around 11 billion dollars, less than half of what it originally sought.
2 sources · TechCrunch, The Next WebOil giant ADNOC brings in OpenAI's AI agents as Abu Dhabi signs four agreements at once
The state oil company wants to use Frontier to scrutinise its entire chain, from reservoir to trading; the emirate's government and investor Mubadala are also teaming up with the ChatGPT maker.
3 sources · Arabian Business, The National, BörsvärldenFour in ten chatbot answers about the American midterm elections contain an error
On the eve of Tuesday's vote, research shows that AI assistants mostly go wrong on the practical side of voting, the AFP news agency reports.
3 sources · France 24, The Japan Times, The StarApple
Alibaba's Qwen becomes the language model behind Apple Intelligence on Chinese iPhones
Developers can test the integration from Wednesday; Chinese users get it in December with iOS 27.3, as an option they have to switch on themselves.
2 sources · Xinhua, Seoul Economic DailySince the switch to winter time, the dimmed screen on some Apple Watches has been running an hour fast
Apple acknowledges the bug in a support document and offers two quick fixes; anyone who does nothing will see the problem disappear on its own after midnight.
3 sources · Apple, iClarified, Android HeadlinesProgramming languages
Weak keys at certificate issuer eMudhra force Go and Java into emergency patches
The Go team looks back on its first ever emergency release; Java applications remain exposed as long as their list of trusted certificates has not been updated.
5 sources · Go Blog, InfoQ, CSO Online +Emacs marks fifty years, with mouse control in the Linux console as its latest addition
The editor that Richard Stallman shaped at MIT in 1976 was the starting point of the GNU project; its rival vi dates from the same year.
2 sources · MIT Technology Review, The Register