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Sony raises the PlayStation 5's price in Japan by 19% to ~$550, citing "the severe external environment, including recent global economic fluctuations" (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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A look at "Terrorgram", a network of far-right Telegram channels posting info on power grid attacks, which the North American Reliability Corp. says have spiked (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)

A look at "Terrorgram", a network of far-right Tel...

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Release notes for the Android 14 downgrade OTA confirm Google delays Android 15 roll out to Pixel devices from September to October, possibly around 15th (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Release notes for the Android 14 downgrade OTA con...

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A US district judge orders Missouri's AG to halt his probe into Media Matters' Nov. 2023 report about ads on X, after a similar order against Texas' AG in April (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

A US district judge orders Missouri's AG to halt h...

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India's central bank says its CBDC pilot has 5M+ users and as many as 16 banks participating, but it's not rushing to roll out a full-scale implementation (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

India's central bank says its CBDC pilot has 5M+ u...

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In a letter to US Rep. Jim Jordan, Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets Meta wasn't more outspoken about the Biden admin's pressure to restrict some COVID-19 content (Siobhan Hughes/Wall Street Journal)

In a letter to US Rep. Jim Jordan, Mark Zuckerberg...

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Sources: Google aims to slash what it spends on deals with some Australian outlets under the News Media Bargaining Code, after Meta said it wouldn't renew deals (Sam Buckingham-Jones/Australian ...)

Sources: Google aims to slash what it spends on de...

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Elon Musk says that "all things considered", California "should probably" pass the AI safety bill (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

Elon Musk says that "all things considered", Calif...

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Sources: Amazon aggregators Branded and Heyday plan to merge; Branded would acquire Heyday in exchange for $521M in equity in a new company to be named Essor (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Sources: Amazon aggregators Branded and Heyday pla...

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Docs: Amazon plans to launch its delayed overhaul of Alexa in October for as much as $10/month, with AI-generated news summaries, a chatbot for kids, and more (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

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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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Sources: IBM shuts its China R&D department, affecting 1,000+ employees, and plans to move some R&D functions overseas, the latest company to retreat from China (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: IBM shuts its China R&D department, affec...

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A look at the aftermath of the FCC ending the Affordable Connectivity Program for ~23M US households in May 2024; Spectrum says it lost 154K customers in Q2 (Joe Supan/CNET)

A look at the aftermath of the FCC ending the Affo...

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How some Chinese AI companies use brokers to access GPUs despite US sanctions, sometimes using cryptocurrency smart contracts to anonymously process orders (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

How some Chinese AI companies use brokers to acces...

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Chinese tech giants splurge on AI infrastructure, doubling their 2024 capex; Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu had a combined capex of ~$7B in H1 2024, up 50%+ YoY (Financial Times)

Chinese tech giants splurge on AI infrastructure, ...

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How Ukraine is working with private firms to test AI and other tech in drones to find land mines, save lives, and allow military forces to advance more quickly (Lara Jakes/New York Times)

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A look at voice bots from Indian startups Sarvam AI, CoRover, and Gnani.ai; Samsung-backed Gnani now handles millions of voice conversations daily for companies (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

A look at voice bots from Indian startups Sarvam A...

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A deeper look at Google's shockingly good Reimagine feature for Pixel 9, which lets users add things to photos via prompts and lacks strong guardrails (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

A deeper look at Google's shockingly good Reimagin...

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A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure messenger" despite lacking default end-to-end encrypted messages and any E2E encrypted option for group chats (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)

A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure me...

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A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure messenger" despite lacking default end-to-end encrypted messages and any E2E encrypted option for group chats (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)

A look at Telegram's claims that it's a "secure me...

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Telegram says its CEO Pavel Durov has "nothing to hide" and that the messaging app "abides by EU laws", including the Digital Services Act (Bloomberg)

Telegram says its CEO Pavel Durov has "nothing to ...

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Telegram says its CEO Pavel Durov has "nothing to hide" and that the messaging app "abides by EU laws", including the Digital Services Act (@telegram)

Telegram says its CEO Pavel Durov has "nothing to ...

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How prominent games accessibility advocate Susan Banks, who worked with studios and raised awareness for accessibility in games, may never have existed at all (Grant Stoner/IGN)

How prominent games accessibility advocate Susan B...

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A look at Apple's robotics efforts; sources: Meta will unveil prototype "Orion" AR glasses, a cheaper Quest, and new AI features for Ray-Ban Meta at Connect (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A look at Apple's robotics efforts; sources: Meta ...

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An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement (New York Times)

An excerpt from the book Character Limit details t...

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Thrustmaster T-GT II force feedback wheel review: as good as belt-driven force feedback gets

Thrustmaster T-GT II force feedback wheel review: ...

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The problem with Xbox's new vision isn't that it's moving away from console-exclusive games, but that its release strategy is confusing and inconsistent (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

The problem with Xbox's new vision isn't that it's...

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Some San Francisco city officials say they're not lamenting X's departure from the city, as X bears little resemblance to the company that SF welcomed in 2012 (New York Times)

Some San Francisco city officials say they're not ...

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Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that disappear within 24 hours with a limited number of users, but doesn't say if the experiment is region-specific (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that di...

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Reports: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, after being targeted by an arrest warrant in France (Reuters)

Reports: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at ...

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A look at Germany-based discount retailer Lidl's foray into offering cloud computing services, signing up clients like SAP and making €1.9B in 2023 annual sales (Olaf Storbeck/Financial Times)

A look at Germany-based discount retailer Lidl's f...

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An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more (Lex Fridman)

An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder ...

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Midjourney CEO David Holz says anyone can now generate images on its website; previously, the website was limited to users who generated 10K+ images on Discord (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)

Midjourney CEO David Holz says anyone can now gene...

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