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ICYMI here's the biggest tech news stories from Apple, Amazon, DJI, and more for October 19, 2024.

The two companies each hired a major investment bank to negotiate how big Microsoft’s share in OpenAI will be after its $14 billion investment.

Microsoft in late September kicked of the recent run on nuclear stocks.

In today’s newsletter: Google will soon use nuclear reactors to run its AI datacentres. What are the economic, ethical and environmental implications?

Sebastian Bubeck, one of Microsoft's top AI researchers, recently left the company to join OpenAI. He spearheaded operations on small language models like the lightweight Phi AI models.

Research from Apple’s AI team shows that today’s big AI models aren’t as smart as we think. Despite that, AI is being misused more and more every day.

Sam Altman of OpenAI gives his blessing to a new viral prompt for ChatGPT

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct. 2, 2024, it announced that it had obtained US$6.6 billion in new funding from investors and that the business was worth an estimated $157 billion – making it…

As OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA, an AI artist argued that people are stealing from him by using AI. We also saw a major update to Windows 11 roll out and Microsoft ship the latest version of Office.