September 28, 2024

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-09-28

As the week winds down, I highlight the sneaky stories you might've missed on a slow news Friday.

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By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.

Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀

Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

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Techmeme: Current and former staff say OpenAI has rushed product announcements and safety testing, lost its lead over rivals, and Altman is detached from the day-to-day (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)

By Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: The US DOJ charges two Russians for operating $1B+ money laundering services for cybercriminals; one is accused of operating the Joker's Stash marketplace (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

By Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Microsoft details how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature, including making it opt-in and giving users an option to uninstall (Tom Warren/The Verge)

By Tom Warren / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B (Wall Street Journal)

From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Stripe data: AI startups took a median 11 months to hit $1M in annualized revenue after their first sales, vs. 15 months for the previous gen of SaaS startups (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

By Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

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