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Neuralink says Blindsight, its experimental implant aimed at restoring vision, has received the US FDA's "breakthrough device" designation (Bhanvi Satija/Reuters)

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Microsoft: starting in late August, Russian cyber operatives focused on Harris' campaign, with disinfo including videos spread by a site posing as a news outlet (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signs two bills restricting the use of AI replicas of performers, building on protections SAG-AFTRA sought in its 2023 strike (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs two bills r...

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Sources: BlackRock is aiming to launch a $30B+ AI investment fund with Microsoft, to build data centers and energy projects that meet the growing demands of AI (Financial Times)

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Discord says it is beginning to roll out end-to-end encryption to voice and video chats in DMs, Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

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Dreamforce 2024 takeaways: Salesforce upgrades all customers from Einstein Copilot to Agentforce, Slack is positioned as an agentic AI-enhanced work OS, more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Dreamforce 2024 takeaways: Salesforce upgrades all...

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Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server, Mozilla.social, giving users until December 17 to export their data and migrate to another instance (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server...

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Pew survey: 17% of US adults say they regularly get news on TikTok in 2024, up from 14% in 2023 and 3% in 2020; 39% aged 18 to 29 do so, up from 32% a year ago (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)

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Workday acquires Evisort, an AI-powered contract management service that had raised $155.6M in capital and debt (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Workday acquires Evisort, an AI-powered contract m...

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Snap unveils new Spectacles it will lease to devs creating Snapchat AR lenses, with a more immersive display, longer battery life, and a more lightweight design (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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Snapchat gets a redesign, simplifying from five to three tabs including a new unified For You feed of full-screen videos from publishers and creators (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Snapchat gets a redesign, simplifying from five to...

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Snap debuts a tool to let creators generate AI videos from text prompts and, soon, from image prompts, powered by Snap's own foundational video models (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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IBM acquires Kubecost, a FinOps startup launched in 2019 that helps companies monitor and optimize Kubernetes clusters; Kubecost had raised $30M+ in funding (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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Google plans to flag AI-generated images that have C2PA metadata on Search, Google Lens, and Circle to Search in the "about this image" box, within a few months (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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The EU picks veteran Finnish lawmaker Henna Virkkunen to take over from Thierry Breton, pending her confirmation; Virkkunen was central in creating the DSA (Bloomberg)

The EU picks veteran Finnish lawmaker Henna Virkku...

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The US FDIC proposes rules for banks holding customer funds for money management apps, to track customers' balances, citing harms done when Synapse cratered (Emily Flitter/New York Times)

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Uber says it plans to start checking US passengers' account info against third-party ID verification databases; drivers will be able to see a user's blue badge (Curtis Heinzl/Bloomberg)

Uber says it plans to start checking US passengers...

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Wintermute partners with Chaos Labs to launch a crypto-based betting site focused on the US presidential election; Polymarket has ~$1B in wagers on that contest (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

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