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Former Brex COO who now heads unicorn fintech Figure says GPT is already upending the mortgage industry

Lending startup Figure will be launching an AI tool powered by GPT-4 to help catch errors in lending documents. 

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News Image Zillow will now show climate risks for property listings in the US

Zillow has announced that its real estate property listings in the US will soon feature details about climate risks, including the potential for wildfires, flooding, extreme temperatures, high winds, and poor air quality. Buyers will also see what types of insurance are required or recommended for a property. The climate risk data, provided through a partnership with First Street, which specializes in “climate risk financial modeling,” will be introduced to the Zillow website and iOS app by the end of the year and will be available on Zillow’s Android app early next year. In August, 16.7 percent of new listings on Zillow were at “major risk of wildfire,” while 12.8 percent had a major risk of flooding, says the company. To make potential...

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News Image Journalist Suspended on ‘Free Speech’ Platform X After Publishing Stolen Trump Document

The leaked document, an internal profile of JD Vance, is painfully boring.

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News Image Gamers Rejoice: The Xbox Core Controller Is Down to Just $44

Save 27% on the best console and PC gaming controller around for early prime day.

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News Image In rare move from printing industry, HP actually has a decent idea

Enlarge The printer industry is in a rut. With the digitization of, well, nearly everything, people just don’t print like they used to. More modern ways of storing and sharing information, changes in communication preferences at home and in offices, and environmental concerns have stonewalled the printing industry and challenged stakeholders like HP. I’d argue that it’s not just technological, economic, and societal changes that have diminished printer businesses. For the average person, printers and their capabilities have become boring. When’s the last time you’ve heard of a new killer printer feature?

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Security compliance unicorn Drata lays off 9% of its workforce

Drata, a security compliance automation platform that helps companies adhere to frameworks such as SOC 2 and GDPR, has laid off 9% of its workforce, amounting to 40 people. Founded in 2020, Drata integrates with dozens of clouds, SaaS apps, developer tools, security systems, and more, helping businesses collate the necessary evidence to prove that their data privacy and security […]

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News Image Sony’s Horizon Zero Dawn remaster may cost $20 more than we thought

If you thought you’d buy a new copy of Horizon Zero Dawn on Sony’s digital storefront for a smooth $20 and just pay an extra $10 for the new remastered version when it arrives on October 31st, think again. Sony has quietly doubled the price of Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition on the PlayStation Store. While Sony has long sold the game for $20 online — as far back as 2018, it seems — it upped that price to $40 on September 25th, just one day after announcing the new remastered game. The changes were spotted by @GamePittReviews. While those of us with an existing copy can upgrade for $10 — regardless of whether your copy is disc or digital, PlayStation or PC — new players will have to pay a full $50 for the remastered version if they...

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News Image No, John Carpenter Is Not Talking Smack on Letterboxd

Thanks to the king of Halloween, the internet learns yet another lesson in the realm of "a person's username may not be their real name, actually."

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News Image Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos

NotebookLM, Google’s AI note-taking app, can now summarize and help you dig deeper into YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video’s transcript, including autogenerated ones. Once you add a YouTube link to NotebookLM, it will use AI to provide a brief summary of key topics discussed in the transcript. You can then click on these topics to get more detailed information as well as ask questions. (If you’re struggling to come up with something to ask, NotebookLM will suggest some questions.) When I dropped in The Verge’s iPhone 16 Pro review, NotebookLM generated topics discussed in the video like “Apple Intelligence,” “iPhone 16 Pro Camera,” and “Photo...

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Kia dealer portal flaw could let attackers hack millions of cars

A group of security researchers discovered critical flaws in Kia's dealer portal that could let hackers locate and steal millions of Kia cars made after 2013 using just the targeted vehicle's license plate....

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News Image Intense Flooding Expected as Florida Faces Possible Category 4 Hurricane Tonight

Helene will make landfall Thursday evening, bringing about life-threatening conditions across the northwest coast.

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News Image Exponential growth brews 1 million AI models on Hugging Face

Enlarge like the kind that power ChatGPT. In a post on X, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue wrote about how his company hosts many high-profile AI models, like "Llama, Gemma, Phi, Flux, Mistral, Starcoder, Qwen, Stable diffusion, Grok, Whisper, Olmo, Command, Zephyr, OpenELM, Jamba, Yi," but also "999,984 others." The reason why, Delangue says, stems from customization. "Contrary to the '1 model to rule them all' fallacy," he wrote, "smaller specialized customized optimized models for your use-case, your domain, your language, your hardware and generally your constraints are better. As a matter of fact, something that few people realize is that there are almost as many models on Hugging Face that are private only to one organization—for companies to build AI privately, specifically for their use-cases."

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Nomi’s companion chatbots will now remember things like the colleague you don’t get along with

As OpenAI boasts about its o1 model’s increased thoughtfulness, small, self-funded startup Nomi AI is building the same kind of technology. Unlike the broad generalist ChatGPT, which slows down to think through anything from math problems or historical research, Nomi niches down on a specific use case: AI companions. Now, Nomi’s already-sophisticated chatbots take additional […]

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News Image Samsung Galaxy S24 FE Hands On: Galaxy AI Deja Vu

Samsung ditches the rounded corners and adds its Galaxy AI to its Galaxy S24 FE phones.

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