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The Financial Times reports that OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50 billion in September, compared with a widely reported $70 billion figure.
Investors need comparable revenue periods and definitions to judge OpenAI’s sales momentum and the assumptions supporting financing decisions.
Bay Area lettering artist Jessica Hische faced backlash after designing the M icon and Muse logotype for Meta’s new AI assistant, Wired reports.
Criticism of branding can scrutinize how designers lend credibility to AI products, while personal attacks can divert attention from the company’s decisions.
NPR reports that the USS Abraham Lincoln is returning to San Diego on Thursday after supporting the Iran war during 265 uninterrupted days at sea, amid reports of deteriorating crew conditions.
The long deployment makes the crew’s recovery a Navy responsibility that a homecoming ceremony or a record-setting day count cannot fulfill on its own.
ICE emails obtained by Democracy Forward discuss feeding voter-roll data into the Palantir-supported ELITE enforcement tool, while Palantir told Wired that no such integration has occurred.
If implemented, the proposal could put voters’ registration information into a system used to manage enforcement targets, making verification and limits on agent access consequential.
Regional authorities said a Russian glide bomb struck two passenger buses in Kramatorsk on October 8, killing at least 30 people and wounding 18; officials suspended public transportation in two cities.
Transport suspensions restrict civilian movement even without a major territorial change, so battlefield maps alone cannot establish whether conditions are stabilizing.
WIRED partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization that lets visitors simulate spending a trillion-dollar fortune attributed to Elon Musk.
The visualization makes extraordinary wealth easier to comprehend, but its spendable balance can blur the differences between asset values, available cash, and corporate control.
TikTok affiliate creators promoted inexpensive camera glasses by claiming the frames lack a visible recording light, according to videos reviewed by Futurism.
Promoting an absent recording indicator encourages buyers to value filming that nearby people may not notice, reducing those people’s opportunity to object or leave.
SpaceX used videos from Caribbean tourists and cruise passengers to count and track debris after Starship’s seventh test flight exploded, according to a report ProPublica obtained from the FAA.
Debris estimates help the FAA set airspace restrictions that protect airline passengers and crews, but reconstructing an explosion afterward cannot substitute for timely hazard warnings.
Al Jazeera documented how Omar Abdel Hakim Hamad carried about 200 books when he left Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza on October 30, 2023, and subsequently endured 13 displacements.
Hamad’s account shows how displacement forced him to weigh preserving his library against obtaining food, while keeping books could not restore his home.
Reuters reported on October 8 that the United States had opened direct talks with Myanmar’s generals, reversing years of isolation.
Direct talks could give Washington a channel for seeking concessions, while giving Myanmar’s generals diplomatic exposure before any change in their conduct is established.
Amazon customers shared screenshots of account profiles containing descriptions including “has no friends,” and Futurism published account-navigation instructions for viewing the records.
Customers can inspect some personal descriptions, but the reporting does not establish how those entries affect shopping or whether customers can correct or delete them.
Finland’s Supervisory Agency ordered Google affiliate Tuike Finland Oy to suspend environmentally significant preparatory work for data centers in Muhos and Kajaani after reported forest clearing.
The order restricts further site alteration while authorities review whether construction preparation bypassed required environmental assessment and approval.