Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Welcome to TC PM! Today we are looking into OpenAI's Sora video-generation platform; Perplexity's proposed move into hardware; and some Anduril salary data. Onward!

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🚰 LLM leak: OpenAI's video-generation platform, Sora, was leaked on X. The fun lasted for a few hours before access was shut down. So what happened? Read more

🤨 Another AI product? Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas posted on X that his company would make a device if his post got enough likes. The post did. But hardware has proven to be hard in this category. Read more

💰 Defense tech dollars: Defense tech has risen in popularity in recent years, and one potential benefit to working in the sector is that it apparently pays really well. How do we know? We have salary info for more than a dozen Anduril employees, and let's just say, those numbers look good to me. Read more

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Afternoon must-reads

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📚 Spotify for authors: Spotify is doubling down on its audiobook offerings. Today the company announced a new set of features for authors and publishers that let them analyze how people interact with their audiobooks and allow them to access promotional tools. Read more

🩺 Replacing WebMD: The urge to google symptoms when I have a cough or a weird pain is all too real. Roon wants you to turn to its platform for clinically accurate information on what might be wrong instead of relying on "Dr. Google." Read more

✅ Bluesky verification: X and Meta use blue checks to note that people are verified on their platforms, but Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says the decentralized social network might go in a different direction. Read more

🎙️ More access to menopause care: There aren't a lot of resources or physicians trained on how to care for patients going through menopause, despite the fact that half the population will go through it at some point. Alloy Women's Health looks to change that and came on the Found podcast this week to talk about how. Listen here

🛟 Security researchers to the rescue: Security researchers discovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited by a fantastically named Russian hacking group called RomCom. Read more

📈 Drivers, delivery, data labeling: Uber is expanding its fleet of contractors. The company is now hiring gig workers to label data both for internal Uber business units and external customers. Read more

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Around the web

👀 Legal protections: What exactly does copyright infringement look like for influencers? And how do you copyright an aesthetic? A first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Texas means we're about to find out. Read more

🗣️ Africa AI: OpenAI and Meta will begin training their models on African languages. This is meant to address the shortage of models that tap into the continent's rich fabric of different dialects. Read more