Sam Altman has a manifesto. Kinda. Telegram is beginning to walk things back a bit. Cloudflare wants to help you block the AI bots. New streaming device from Roku. And I guess TikTok can’t win at everything.

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Links:

• The Intelligence Age (Sam Altman)
• Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into ‘god mode’ with latest AI post (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days” (ArsTechnica)
• Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software (TechCrunch)
• Telegram CEO Durov Says App to Provide More Data to Governments (Bloomberg)
• New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free (Wired)
• The new Roku Ultra is faster, has better Wi-Fi, and comes with a backlit remote (The Verge)
• Spotify’s AI playlist builder is now available in the US (The Verge)
• TikTok to Shut Down its Music Streaming Business in November (Bloomberg)

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