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Threads is trading trust for growth via Meta's creator program, which pays people to post without disclosing, making users assume everyone is engagement farming (Ben Werdmuller/Werd I/O)

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Sources: Qualcomm has explored acquiring portions of Intel's design business, including Intel's client PC design business, as Intel struggles to generate cash (Reuters)

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A look at Honor's AI defocus tech, which aims to solve myopia and is available on the new Honor MagicPad 2 tablet and Honor Magic V3 foldable phone (Nicholas Sutrich/Android Central)

A look at Honor's AI defocus tech, which aims to s...

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X's VP of Global Affairs Nick Pickles is leaving the company after a decade in which he fought multiple political battles and engaged with regulators worldwide (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

X's VP of Global Affairs Nick Pickles is leaving t...

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New filtration material could remove long-lasting chemicals from water

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Sources: Apple approves a WeChat update for iOS, as talks continue with Tencent to offer IAP and block links to external payment services in mini games (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple approves a WeChat update for iOS, a...

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Leaked documents show an AI upgrade led to an incident where Alexa seemed to favor Kamala Harris over Donald Trump; Amazon says the error was fixed (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

Leaked documents show an AI upgrade led to an inci...

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A review of Honor's Magic V3, a foldable phone that is thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold6 at 9.2mm when folded, launching for £1,699 in the UK and €1,999 in the EU (Simon Hill/Wired)

A review of Honor's Magic V3, a foldable phone tha...

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Telegram radically alters its stance on "illegal" use of its platform by letting users in private chats "flag illegal content" for review by its moderators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Pavel Durov calls his arrest by French authorities "misguided" and denies Telegram is an "anarchic paradise", in his first public comments since the detention (The Guardian)

Pavel Durov calls his arrest by French authorities...

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Analysts raise questions over Brazilian digital bank Nubank's rising default rate, even as loans grow 28% YoY; ~60% of all Brazilian adults have Nubank's app (Bloomberg)

Analysts raise questions over Brazilian digital ba...

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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is working with Samsung and Google on a mixed-reality set of smart glasses linked to a smartphone (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is wo...

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Salesforce agrees to acquire Own Company, which provides data management and protection services, for ~$1.9B in cash; Own was valued at $3.35B as of August 2021 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Salesforce agrees to acquire Own Company, which pr...

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Sources: Intel is considering selling part of its 88% stake in Mobileye, and is also exploring options for its Network and Edge enterprise networking division (Bloomberg)

Sources: Intel is considering selling part of its ...

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Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 47% YoY to $13.07B, vs. $12.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $14B, vs. $14.13B est.; AVGO drops 7%+ after hours (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 47% YoY to $13.07B,...

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Keeping the cosmos clean

Keeping the cosmos clean

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Interviews with Marc Benioff and others about Salesforce's "hard pivot" to Agentforce, a platform for users to build and deploy AI agents in Salesforce apps (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Interviews with Marc Benioff and others about Sale...

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Spotify wins a long-running, complicated music rights case in US district court, where Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style claimed Spotify lacked proper licenses (Mark Savage/BBC)

Spotify wins a long-running, complicated music rig...

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Microsoft plans to use StopNCII's hash database to block revenge porn in Bing, joining Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pornhub, and OnlyFans (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU's Unit 29155, which is responsible for assassinations in Europe (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

The US and allies reveal that the hacker group kno...

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FCC filing: Larry Ellison will own 77.5% of Paramount Global parent company National Amusements after his son David completes the purchase of Paramount (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)

FCC filing: Larry Ellison will own 77.5% of Paramo...

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The US imposes new export controls on critical tech, including quantum computing and semiconductor goods, aligning the US with Japan, Netherlands, other allies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

The US imposes new export controls on critical tec...

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Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered search feature in Google Photos announced in May, in "early access" to select customers in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered se...

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As national legislation on deepfake porn crawls through Congress, 39 US states have introduced laws to deter the creation and sharing of nonconsensual deepfakes (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

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Arkansas-based Laravel, known for its open-source PHP web framework released in June 2011 and which now has 35 employees, raised a $57M Series A from Accel (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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The UK's CMA launches an investigation into whether the sale of Oasis tickets on Ticketmaster breached consumer protection law, including via "dynamic pricing" (Helen Bushby/BBC)

The UK's CMA launches an investigation into whethe...

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Bluetooth SIG releases Bluetooth 6 spec with a Channel Sounding feature to let Find My apps from Apple and others locate items with centimeter-level accuracy (Ezza Ijaz/Wccftech)

Bluetooth SIG releases Bluetooth 6 spec with a Cha...

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YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect creators from having their likeness copied and plans to give creators controls over AI scraping (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect cr...

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OpenAI says it now has 1M+ paid users for the corporate versions of ChatGPT, including ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

OpenAI says it now has 1M+ paid users for the corp...

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The US, UK, EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that the use of AI is "fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law" (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Huawei and SMIC are struggling with making chips for Huawei's next flagship Mate 70, due to US restrictions; Huawei was aiming for a September release (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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DJI unveils Neo, a $200 drone aimed at content creators and casual users with features like palm takeoff, voice control, ActiveTrack, smartphone control, more (Steve Dent/Engadget)

DJI unveils Neo, a $200 drone aimed at content cre...

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PayPal expands into point-of-sale payments in the US by integrating its debit card with Apple Wallet and offering 5% cash back for some products up to $1K/month (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

PayPal expands into point-of-sale payments in the ...

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Applied Digital, which leases out data-center space and has started an AI cloud-computing service with Nvidia chips, raised $160M from Nvidia and others (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Applied Digital, which leases out data-center spac...

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Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs by fake bands to get $10M in royalties from streaming services (Maia Coleman/New York Times)

Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly usi...

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Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs by fake bands to get $10M in royalties from streaming services (Maia Coleman/New York Times)

Federal prosecutors charge a man for allegedly usi...

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New Mexico's AG sues Snapchat, alleging it is a "breeding ground" for predators seeking to collect sexually explicit images of children and extort them (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

New Mexico's AG sues Snapchat, alleging it is a "b...

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Ant Group launches Zhixiaobao, a standalone AI app to let users facilitate daily tasks such as ordering meals and hailing taxis, and access third-party services (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)

Ant Group launches Zhixiaobao, a standalone AI app...

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A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must face a class action age bias suit by around 150 older workers who were laid off by the company in 2022 (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

A San Francisco federal judge rules that X must fa...

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Verizon agrees to buy rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B; Frontier had a revenue of $5.8B in 2023 (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)

Verizon agrees to buy rival telecom operator Front...

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Meta's Oversight Board rules that users should be allowed to post "aspirational" statements for Venezuelan state-supported paramilitary groups to be killed (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

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Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers, and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in March quarter, or 43% of Disney's DTC revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Leaked Disney files include personal data of some ...

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An adviser to CJEU sides with Italy's antitrust authority that Google's refusal to provide third-party access to Android Auto may breach EU competition rules (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

An adviser to CJEU sides with Italy's antitrust au...

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Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in 2023, is pivoting to focus on helping clients use AI tools, instead of trying to outperform OpenAI and others (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which raised $500M+ in ...

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India and Singapore sign a series of deals to ramp up collaboration in semiconductors and digital technologies, including cybersecurity, 5G, AI, and more (Bloomberg)

India and Singapore sign a series of deals to ramp...

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YouTube begins restricting repeated video recommendations to teens about fitness levels, body weights, or physical features globally, expanding beyond the US (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

YouTube begins restricting repeated video recommen...

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Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis (New York Times)

Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City...

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Some tech and crypto firms, and Wyoming rush to launch their own stablecoins to profit from a recovering crypto market, as experts say tokens are of little use (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Some tech and crypto firms, and Wyoming rush to la...

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Intel cancels plans for using its 20A process node for its Arrow Lake processors for the consumer market and will use external nodes instead, likely from TSMC (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

Intel cancels plans for using its 20A process node...

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Cybersecurity company Pango Group is acquiring all of Kaspersky's US customers, or ~1M users, after Commerce Department banned Kaspersky's software in the US (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Cybersecurity company Pango Group is acquiring all...

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