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Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M   —  The acquisition will give the bank a digital small business platform while accelerating its technology and AI strategy. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/anGDm5b via IFTTT
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Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more   —  Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/IOB6qV4 via IFTTT

Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called "Super Intelligence Force", to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)

Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal : Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called “Super Intelligence Force”, to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days   —  The White House group will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton who will serve as AI czar from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ES513qr via IFTTT

David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic)

David Robinson / The Atlantic : David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over   —  What I'm about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BQReMSd via IFTTT

Apple says it is adding additional controls around "Full Disk Access" on macOS as AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”   —  Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/pGmneLu via IFTTT

Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance (Grace Kay/The Information)

Grace Kay / The Information : Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance   —  SpaceX's AI unit held talks over the summer about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, say people familiar with the matter … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/0ND5Onk via IFTTT

A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Mike Scarcella / Reuters : A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic   —  Alphabet's Google has persuaded a US federal judge to dismiss lawsuits from education technology company Chegg … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/GmuOZs4 via IFTTT