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Apple announces CFO Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025; Kevan Parekh, Apple's VP of Financial Planning and Analysis, will become CFO (Apple)

Apple announces CFO Luca Maestri will transition f...

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Anthropic publishes a changelog for the system prompts of its Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku models, the first major AI vendor to do so (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Anthropic publishes a changelog for the system pro...

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Viggle, developer of 3D-video foundation model JST-1, raised a $19M Series A led by a16z; Viggle says the model is trained on public sources, including YouTube (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Viggle, developer of 3D-video foundation model JST...

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Crypto platform Abra agrees to settle with the SEC over claims of unregistered securities; the SEC said the Abra Earn product had almost $500M from US investors (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Crypto platform Abra agrees to settle with the SEC...

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French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe "against person unnamed" into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities (New York Times)

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part o...

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OpenAI supports CA bill AB 3211 to require companies generating AI content to add watermarks; the bill passed in the state Assembly 62-0 and heads to Senate (Anna Tong/Reuters)

OpenAI supports CA bill AB 3211 to require compani...

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An overview of AI startups largely founded by former AI researchers from Google, including Reka, Ideogram, H, Inflection, and Character AI (The Information)

An overview of AI startups largely founded by form...

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Inflection will cap free access to its AI chatbot Pi in the coming months and let users export their conversations as the startup focuses on enterprise products (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Inflection will cap free access to its AI chatbot ...

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Apple announces a September 9 event at Apple Park with the iPhone 16 lineup, new Apple Watch models, and AirPods 4 expected; the invitation says "It's Glowtime" (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and "this is in no way a political decision" (Victor Goury-Laffont/Politico)

French President Emmanuel Macron says the governme...

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French agency OFMIN, established in 2023 to prevent violence against minors, issued the arrest warrant for Pavel Durov, who is a citizen of France and the UAE (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)

French agency OFMIN, established in 2023 to preven...

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Ikea launches Ikea Preowned, an online marketplace for customers to sell secondhand furniture to each other, testing in Madrid and Oslo until the end of 2024 (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

Ikea launches Ikea Preowned, an online marketplace...

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Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wukong sold 10M copies in just 83 hours, one of the fastest game debuts in history, earning an estimated $450M+ (Bloomberg)

Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wuko...

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Current and former Nvidia staff say that, despite a 3,776% stock jump since 2019, minting many millionaires, the work hours are still grueling and high-stress (Bloomberg)

Current and former Nvidia staff say that, despite ...

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US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q2 revenue up 86% YoY to ~$13.6B, below ~$14B est., and net income up 144% YoY to ~$4.5B, vs. $3.8B est. (Bloomberg)

US-listed PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, repo...

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Chicago-based G Squared raised $1.1B for a fund to buy secondary startup shares; G Squared bought ~$135M in Anthropic shares from FTX during its bankruptcy (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

Chicago-based G Squared raised $1.1B for a fund to...

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Analysis: Elon Musk posted ~13,000 times on X in 2024 to July, or 61 posts per day, almost as much as in all of 2023, as he shifts to posting about politics (Wall Street Journal)

Analysis: Elon Musk posted ~13,000 times on X in 2...

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The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber a record €290M for failing to abide by European protection standards when sending sensitive driver data to the US (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)

The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber a r...

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