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AT&T agrees to sell its majority stake in DirecTV to private equity firm TPG for $7.6B in cash, including $1.7B in pre-tax quarterly distributions in H2 2024 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

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A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, created by Meta, Microsoft, YouTube, and X in 2016 to share info; X quietly left the board this month (Paresh Dave/Wired)

A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Ter...

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Raspberry Pi AI Camera review: the new $70 kit has a smart camera with performance that will cover 99% of basic user projects, and works as a standard Pi camera (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)

Raspberry Pi AI Camera review: the new $70 kit has...

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Sources: ByteDance plans to develop an AI model trained primarily with Huawei Ascend 910B chips, which it already uses for less intensive inference tasks (Reuters)

Sources: ByteDance plans to develop an AI model tr...

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Google's lawyers wrapped up their defense of the company in the US DOJ ad tech antitrust trial last week; a judge's ruling is expected in the coming months (New York Times)

Google's lawyers wrapped up their defense of the c...

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Antenna: Netflix cancellations spiked for a few days in late July 2024 after Reed Hastings endorsed Kamala Harris and announced a $7M super PAC donation (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Antenna: Netflix cancellations spiked for a few da...

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Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 2020 breach, facing the US SEC's charges that were largely dismissed in July, global cyber regulations, and more (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 20...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047; source: Newsom vetoed because the bill applies only to large AI models and leaves others unregulated (Wall Street Journal)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill...

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California passes a law that includes "neural data" under personal sensitive information, aiming to protect people's brain data from being misused by companies (Jonathan Moens/New York Times)

California passes a law that includes "neural data...

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Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets, including moving compute to iPhone, and is working on homeOS; new Masimo CEO could enable a deal with Apple (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple considers options for its headsets,...

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A look at challenges to OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, including the complexity of splitting assets with the nonprofit arm, which will continue to exist (Wall Street Journal)

A look at challenges to OpenAI becoming a for-prof...

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NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that is trained on his equity valuation work that is in the public domain, why AI will empower generalists, and more (Aswath Damodaran/Financial Times)

NYU professor Aswath Damodaran on an AI bot that i...

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A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as the startup matures into a real business and runs into the challenges of avoiding product creep (Matthew Lynley/Supervised)

A look at OpenAI's sprawling product portfolio as ...

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YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired (Jem Aswad/Variety)

YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Da...

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Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has climbed almost sixfold to $200B+ in less than two years, buoyed by Meta's record-high share price, which is up 60%+ YTD (Alex Perry/Bloomberg)

Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has climbed almo...

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Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund a...

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Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their fr...

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Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veter...

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