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TikTok permanently removes accounts associated with the parent organizations of Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing "covert influence operations" (David Ingram/NBC News)

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US intelligence officials say Russia, Iran, and China are using AI tools to boost US election influence efforts, with Russia's efforts being the most aggressive (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

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The US House approves a bill exempting some chipmaking projects from federal permitting requirements after Senate approval in 2023, sending it to Biden's desk (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the Phone-Free Schools Act, which will require schools to restrict cellphone use during school hours by July 1, 2026 (New York Times)

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Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $75M Series A at a $325M valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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Source: Meta plans to launch the voices of Judi Dench, Kristen Bell, John Cena, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key for its Meta AI chatbot at Connect this week (Katie Paul/Reuters)

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Apple says Apple Intelligence will require 4GB of storage on compatible iPhones, and the storage requirement "will increase as more features roll out" (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

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Analysis: major crypto companies, executives, and investors have spent $38M+ recently to help Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno's campaign for the US Senate (Tony Romm/Washington Post)

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Source: Anthropic has started talking to investors about a future capital raise, floating a $30B-40B valuation, around double its valuation from earlier in 2024 (The Information)

Source: Anthropic has started talking to investors...

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Accelerating particle size distribution estimation

Accelerating particle size distribution estimation...

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Sam Altman claims "deep learning worked", superintelligence may be "a few thousand days" away, and "astounding triumphs" will incrementally become commonplace (Sam Altman)

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US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find UltraAV, an entirely different AV suite, remotely installed on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV's owner (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

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Researchers find a new version of Necro malware in Google Play apps with 11M+ total installs; Necro malware in 2019 was found in Play apps with 100M+ installs (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

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Microsoft releases a progress report on its efforts to make security its top priority, which began in November 2023 after a scathing report from the US CSRB (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft releases a progress report on its effort...

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Telegram will provide users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities after valid legal requests, changing its terms of service to deter criminal activity (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)

Telegram will provide users' IP addresses and phon...

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Israel Innovation Authority: since October 7, Israeli tech companies have raised $9B, third behind Silicon Valley and NYC; tech is 16% of Israel's employment (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

Israel Innovation Authority: since October 7, Isra...

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Sonos staff and report: technical debt was partly responsible for the app debacle, and Sonos lacked urgency in fixing it; sources: a reorganization caused chaos (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

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TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription feature, which lets creators offer three tiers, to eligible creators in select regions, including the UK and the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

TikTok rolls out its redesigned Subscription featu...

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Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5 (The Verge)

Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google As...

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a "cancer to WordPress" and says it profits off confusion between the WordPress project and commercial services (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a "c...

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Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools, to all of its customers to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of fr...

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The US Commerce Department proposes banning Chinese software and hardware for internet connected vehicles, effectively banning Chinese vehicles in the US (Felicia Schwartz/Financial Times)

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A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who no...

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Mumbai-based Qure.AI, which uses AI to help identify and manage critical diseases at 3K+ imaging sites, raised a $65M Series D led by Lightspeed and 360 ONE (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Mumbai-based Qure.AI, which uses AI to help identi...

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Sources: Xiaomi asked India to recall its report that found the company and Walmart's Flipkart breached competition laws, saying it contains commercial secrets (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

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The US and India announce plans for a new chip plant in India, producing infrared, gallium nitride, and silicon carbide chips, as Narendra Modi visits the US (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)

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Samsung plans to invest $1.8B to build a factory in northern Vietnam to make OLED displays for cars and tech equipment; Samsung has invested $22.4B in Vietnam (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)

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Similarweb: daily X users in the UK fell from 8M in May 2023 to 5.6M now, with 33%+ of the fall coming after the summer riots; US DAUs fell by ~20% in that time (Jemima Kelly/Financial Times)

Similarweb: daily X users in the UK fell from 8M i...

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The FBI arrests and charges two people in Miami over a conspiracy to steal and launder 4,100+ bitcoin, worth $230M+, using crypto exchanges and mixing services (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Legacy carmakers struggle to keep pace as the focus shifts from engines to computing power; only Ford, GM, and BMW are in Gartner's digital performance top 10 (Financial Times)

Legacy carmakers struggle to keep pace as the focu...

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AI copilots are evolving into AI agents designed to take actions on behalf of users, as business software companies experiment with ways to sell generative AI (Financial Times)

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Behind Bot Farm Corporation, a Siberia-based operation that raked in millions of dollars by deploying advanced poker-playing AI software across gambling sites (Kit Chellel/Bloomberg)

Behind Bot Farm Corporation, a Siberia-based opera...

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In an event that raised $27M, Kamala Harris vowed to help grow investments in AI and crypto, her first comments on crypto as the Democratic presidential nominee (Jennifer Epstein/Bloomberg)

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Profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which h...

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Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to m...

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A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a dri...

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An analysis shows that at least 26 US states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications (Ivana Saric/Axios)

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Sources: TSMC and Samsung execs have visited the UAE and are considering building chip factories funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi's Mubadala (Wall Street Journal)

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A profile of SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, who transfo...

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Law enforcement agencies shut down a service offered by iServer, a phishing-as-a-service platform, which was used to unlock 1.2M+ stolen or lost mobile phones (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Thoughts on the iPhone's slowing pace of hardware innovation, first impressions of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a closer look at Apple Intelligence roll out plans (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot into people's lives, Meta has exceeded expectations in a year when many AI gadgets flopped (Victoria Song/The Verge)

With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can eas...

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Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Virginia, a region that is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world (Washington Post)

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What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September 25 at 1pm ET: new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, cheaper Quest 3S headset, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

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Google says the UK risks being "left behind" in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Google says the UK risks being "left behind" in th...

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A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries (Gabriel Gatehouse/BBC)

A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concep...

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Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would ban Chinese- and Russian-made hardware and software for smart cars as soon as Monday (Bloomberg)

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At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for "smart product regulation", more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says...

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Memo: Zoom plans to cut back on stock-based compensation, saying equity has been issued at a rate that is "not sustainable", joining peers like Salesforce (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Memo: Zoom plans to cut back on stock-based compen...

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Docs: in Perplexity's new ad model, brands will be able to bid for a "sponsored" question, which features an AI-generated answer approved by the advertiser (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Docs: in Perplexity's new ad model, brands will be...

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