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Microsoft debuts new AI coding tools in Excel, adds email prioritization Outlook features, and says Copilot's customer base grew 60%+ in the most recent quarter (Bloomberg)

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Microsoft launches Copilot Pages, which brings Copilot responses to a new page where they can be edited collaboratively, coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot today (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Brain implant startup Synchron says its interface now lets people with paralysis use Alexa without voice or physical interaction, on top of iPhones and more (Emily Mullin/Wired)

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The FDA approves sleep apnea detection in the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2, before the 10's September 20 launch, after Samsung in early 2024 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

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A new way to reprogram immune cells and direct them toward anti-tumor immunity

A new way to reprogram immune cells and direct the...

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Microsoft confirms scrapping plans to overhaul its Edge browser UI, including moving away from a rounded tab design, first announced at a February 2023 event (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Slack unveils Agents for Slack, letting paid users access Salesforce AI agents, third-party agents from Asana, Cohere, Adobe, and others, and users' own agents (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

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Sources: ByteDance aims to mass produce two AI chips designed alongside TSMC in 2026; a source says ByteDance plans to order several hundred thousand (The Information)

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Apple AirPods 4 review: ANC is impressive for an open design, upgraded sound, and wireless charging, but no proper multipoint and inconvenient volume controls (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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Elon Musk deleted an X post that said "no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala" after an apparent Trump assassination attempt, calling the post a joke (Business Insider)

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Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC on a contract to design and fabricate Sony's PS6 chip, a significant blow to its contract manufacturing unit (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: in 2022, Intel lost out to AMD and TSMC o...

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Apple increases the cost of out-of-warranty battery replacement for iPhone 16 Pro models by 20% to $119; the fee remains $99 for the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

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Analysis: new iPhone first weekend pre-orders were down 12.7% to ~37M units; the iPhone 16 Pro declined 27% and iPhone 16 Pro Max 16% compared to the iPhone 15 (Ming-Chi Kuo)

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China advises state-linked orgs to use a new lithography machine with a resolution of 65nm or better, signaling an improvement in its home-developed DUV tech (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

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EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees Big Tech regulation, says he is stepping down over a rift with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Reuters)

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Groq partners with Aramco to build a data center in Saudi Arabia by 2024, says it will be the world's largest AI inferencing center with 19K Groq's custom GPUs (Matthew Martin/Bloomberg)

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Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from 2008 to 2021 suggests online dating may be partially to blame for a rise in income inequality in recent times (Alexandre Tanzi/Bloomberg)

Research based on the US Census Bureau's data from...

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The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and that it appears "some Port data was obtained by the actor" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and that it appears "some Port data was obtained by the actor" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are fighting an Ohio power company's proposal to increase the upfront energy costs they'll pay for their data centers (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

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Some of the largest custodial banks are interested in crypto custody but are hindered by the SEC rule SAB 121, which establishes accounting standards (Bloomberg)

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A look at the US DOJ's divestment case against TikTok, which relies on classified material that TikTok can't review, as oral arguments begin on September 16 (The Verge)

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Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to healthcare providers and their patients, raised a $24.2M Series A led by Northzone (PYMNTS.com)

Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and...

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Regulatory reports: India's CCI accuses Samsung, Xiaomi, and other smartphone makers of collusion for exclusively launching products on Amazon and Flipkart (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

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Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of USDC issuer Circle, says the company is moving its global HQ to One World Trade Center in New York City, ahead of a planned IPO (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)

Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of USDC issuer Circle, say...

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Boston-based AceUp, which offers AI-powered business coaching and performance analytics services, raised a $22.5M Series A led by PJC (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Boston-based AceUp, which offers AI-powered busine...

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Maryland-based Aembit, a non-human identity and access management provider, raised a $25M Series A led by Acrew Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$45M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

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Apple's Activation Lock for iPhone components will make a huge dent in the market for stolen iPhones, though it introduces another barrier to DIY repairs (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

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Google Pixel 9 Pro teardown: impressive repairability for a foldable, with a highly modular design that separates high mechanical wear parts like the USB-C port (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)

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OpenAI should've stuck with the name Strawberry for o1, avoiding user confusion between models named 4o and o1, and helping humanize the tech (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

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A profile of Chase Herro, who calls himself the "d...

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An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047, which easily passed the state's legislature, as it awaits Governor Newsom's signature or veto before Sep. 30 (Financial Times)

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Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Recent announcements from Apple and Google show th...

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Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1.3M TV boxes running OSes based on Android Open Source Project in almost 200 countries, forming a botnet (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infect...

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In reports dated August 9, Indian antitrust regulator CCI found that Amazon and Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

In reports dated August 9, Indian antitrust regula...

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India's new M&A rule for deals exceeding ~$240M could create hurdles for startups that hope to be acquired in their early years to access funding and scale (Menaka Doshi/Bloomberg)

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Sources: OpenAI's $150B valuation in a $6.5B funding round hinges on whether the company can upend its corporate structure and remove a profit cap for investors (Reuters)

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Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)

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Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's "monopoly" (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI's staff that the company plans to move away from being controlled by a nonprofit sometime in 2025 (Kali Hays/Fortune)

Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI's staff that the c...

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An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US workers in high-tech roles in 2022, similar to the 22% in 2005, even as the number of lucrative jobs has soared (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US w...

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MicroStrategy stock jumped 8%+ on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said it purchased another $1.1B worth of bitcoin, taking its bitcoin holdings to $14.6B (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

MicroStrategy stock jumped 8%+ on Friday after fou...

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Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias (Bloomberg)

Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appea...

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Trump says he has "absolutely no intention" of selling his Trump Media stock when the lockup period expires; DJT initially popped 25%+, then closed up about 12% (CNBC)

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Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X and Starlink after withdrawing ~$3.3M from the accounts to pay for fines imposed by the Supreme Court (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)

Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X a...

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A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges "potentially fraudulent activities" as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation (TechCrunch)

A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges "potentially...

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German prosecutors open a sexual harassment probe into SAP CTO Jürgen Müller, after SAP said he'd resign at the end of September due to "inappropriate" behavior (Bloomberg)

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Filing: 23andMe will pay $30M to settle a lawsuit for failing to protect the privacy of 6.9M customers whose personal info was exposed in a 2023 data breach (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Apple files to drop its NSO suit, citing Israeli government's alleged seizure of NSO files, and saying Apple's court disclosures may aid NSO and other hackers (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Apple files to drop its NSO suit, citing Israeli g...

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Google debuts DataGemma models that use real world data from Google-created Data Commons to reduce hallucinations in queries revolving around statistical data (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)

Google debuts DataGemma models that use real world...

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