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Google's satellite SOS service will come to all Pixel 9 owners in the US later this year, free for two years with no additional pricing details shared (Stephen Schenck/Android Authority)

Google's satellite SOS service will come to all Pi...

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Google debuts Gemini Live, a voice chat mode for Gemini Advanced users, initially available in English on Android, with more languages and an iOS version coming (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Google debuts Gemini Live, a voice chat mode for G...

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Google debuts the $1,799+ Pixel 9 Pro Fold, its second take on the category with larger 8" and 6.3" inner and outer displays, 4650 mAh battery, shipping Sept. 4 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Google debuts the $1,799+ Pixel 9 Pro Fold, its se...

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Google debuts Pixel Buds Pro 2 for $229 with a Tensor A1 chip, smaller and lighter than the original Pro, with improved noise cancellation and sound quality (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Google debuts Pixel Buds Pro 2 for $229 with a Ten...

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Google unveils the Pixel Watch 3 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with a 2,000-nit display and around 16% smaller bezels compared to the Watch 2, starting at $349 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Google announces the $999+ 6.3" Pixel 9 Pro and $1,099+ 6.8" 9 Pro XL, with 120Hz "Super Actua" displays, Tensor G4, 16GB RAM, Satellite SOS, 45W fast charging (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)

Google announces the $999+ 6.3" Pixel 9 Pro and $1...

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Google announces the $799+ Google Pixel 9, with a Tensor G4 chip, a design with flat sides, a bigger 6.3" screen, AI features, more, on sale starting August 22 (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

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A livestream of Google's #MadeByGoogle 2024 keynote, with updates on Google AI and Pixel devices, including the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro Fold (#MadeByGoogle on YouTube)

A livestream of Google's #MadeByGoogle 2024 keynot...

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OpenAI says "there's a new GPT-4o model out in ChatGPT since last week", but gave few other details; some users claim new step-by-step or multi-step reasoning (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

OpenAI says "there's a new GPT-4o model out in Cha...

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After Thierry Breton's letter to X before the Trump interview, the EU says the "timing and the wording of the letter were neither co-ordinated or agreed" upon (Alice Hancock/Financial Times)

After Thierry Breton's letter to X before the Trum...

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Twitch rolls out video stories, which can be 60 seconds long and set to expire after 1, 12, 24, or 48 hours, to challenge Instagram (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Twitch rolls out video stories, which can be 60 se...

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Canalys: AI PCs made up 14%, or 8.8M, of all PCs shipped in Q2; ~60% of AI PCs were Apple computers; shipments of Windows PCs priced over $800 grew 9% QoQ (Canalys)

Canalys: AI PCs made up 14%, or 8.8M, of all PCs s...

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Sources: after recent OpenAI shakeups, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, post-training lead Barret Zoph, frontiers research lead Mark Chen, others gain prominence (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Sources: after recent OpenAI shakeups, Chief Scien...

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Sources: after recent OpenAI shakeups, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, post-training lead Barret Zoph, frontiers research lead Mark Chen, others gain prominence (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Sources: after recent OpenAI shakeups, Chief Scien...

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A profile of Peregrine, which was founded by an ex...

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India withdraws a draft broadcasting services bill after facing backlash from online creators over its potential effect on free speech and the compliance burden (John Reed/Financial Times)

India withdraws a draft broadcasting services bill...

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Politico, the NYT, the WaPo, and others say they received hacked Trump campaign materials, but gave few details, a marked contrast to Clinton's emails in 2016 (David Bauder/Associated Press)

Politico, the NYT, the WaPo, and others say they r...

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Sea reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $3.8B, a $79.9M net income, vs. $60M est., and GMV up 29% YoY to $23.3B; Shopee raised its merchant fees by ~33% in 2024 (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Sea reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $3.8B, a $79....

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Fortnox CEO Tommy Eklund leaves the Swedish software provider effective immediately; Fortnox stock jumped nearly 5x between 2020 and 2024, drawing short sellers (Financial Times)

Fortnox CEO Tommy Eklund leaves the Swedish softwa...

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Sources: Chinese internet companies have been testing Huawei's new Ascend 910C chip in recent weeks; Huawei told clients the chip compares to Nvidia's H100 (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Chinese internet companies have been test...

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How Tether co-founder Brock Pierce's plan to use crypto to revitalize Puerto Rico's economy became mired in legal disputes and fights with his business partners (New York Times)

How Tether co-founder Brock Pierce's plan to use c...

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Chipmakers are facing a labor crisis despite huge investments; McKinsey says US plans need 160K+ new workers, and only 1,500 engineers join the industry yearly (June Yoon/Financial Times)

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The FBI, the UK's NCA, and others seize the servers and websites of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation; since August 2023, the gang targeted 43 SMBs (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

The FBI, the UK's NCA, and others seize the server...

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India's antitrust body orders an unusual recall of a report on its Apple investigation; a source says Apple complained about confidential revenue disclosures (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

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Analysis: about half of all job seekers are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to assist them in writing CVs, cover letters, and completing assessments (Financial Times)

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A look at US chipmaker ON Semiconductor's $2B manufacturing hub in Roznov, Czech Republic to make chips for EVs and more; the hub will create 800 new jobs (Bloomberg)

A look at US chipmaker ON Semiconductor's $2B manu...

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A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to piece together digitized tablet fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem (Erik Ofgang/New York Times)

A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to pi...

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Inside Worldcoin's Orb factory in Germany and a pr...

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A recap of Elon Musk's interview of Trump on X which started 42 mins late; X says the interview was at times heard by 1M+ people as Musk prepared for 8M to join (Financial Times)

A recap of Elon Musk's interview of Trump on X whi...

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Sources: the US to remove lidar maker Hesai from a list of Chinese military-affiliated companies, after judging it did not meet the legal criteria for inclusion (Financial Times)

Sources: the US to remove lidar maker Hesai from a...

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Hackers leaked ~2.7B data records of people in the US containing SSNs, names, more on Aug. 6, allegedly from National Public Data, which collects and sells data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Hackers leaked ~2.7B data records of people in the...

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A source at X says there wasn't actually a DDoS attack that crashed the Trump interview; another X employee said there was a "99 percent" chance Musk was lying (The Verge)

A source at X says there wasn't actually a DDoS at...

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Elon Musk's X Spaces interview of Donald Trump was derailed by technical glitches in the first minutes of the scheduled start time; Musk blamed a "DDoS attack" (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)

Elon Musk's X Spaces interview of Donald Trump was...

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Tally, a fintech that helped users manage and pay off credit card debt, is shutting down; it had raised $172M and, per PitchBook, was last valued at $855M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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The FBI says it is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack, after the campaign claimed that sensitive internal documents were leaked and blamed Iran (Devlin Barrett/Washington Post)

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CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to accept the "Most Epic Fail" Pwnie Award, saying "we got this horribly wrong" and "it's super important to own it" (Michael Kan/PCMag)

CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to acc...

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The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised $650M+ from 200K+ investors globally, following the NY AG's suit (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

The US SEC sues crypto company NovaTech and its co...

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TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32 people, available to all users over 15 years old (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

TikTok adds group chats, with support for up to 32...

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Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens' likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about three years (Slow Boring)

Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized a...

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Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous robotaxis on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, after getting regulator approval in March (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous ...

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NYT, Puck, and others are focusing on Reddit as its traffic went from 132M monthly visitors in August 2023 to 346M in April 2024 following Google Search changes (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

NYT, Puck, and others are focusing on Reddit as it...

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Patreon says it has begun a migration process to move all creators to Apple's subscription billing by November 2025, after Apple threatened to remove the app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Patreon says it has begun a migration process to m...

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Q&A with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on AI chatbots, marrying chatbots, Replika's therapy app Tomo, friendship chatbots, LLMs, open source, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on ...

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Accountable Tech: the average weekly reach per post of five prominent political Instagram accounts fell 65% after Meta began to downrank political content (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg)

Accountable Tech: the average weekly reach per pos...

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PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter review: a robust VR experience, but the setup is a headache, especially with the Bluetooth dependency and the lack of included cables (Gabriel Moss/IGN)

PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter review: a robust VR exp...

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Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, partners with AI search engine Perplexity to show news summaries and with Tako to make AI visuals (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world eve...

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Thomas White, who served five years for administering Silk Road 2.0 and possessing images of CSAM, claims to have co-founded activism organization DDoSecrets (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Thomas White, who served five years for administer...

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How Iran has emerged as the most aggressive foreign threat to the US election; Microsoft published a report detailing a litany of efforts to target the election (Wall Street Journal)

How Iran has emerged as the most aggressive foreig...

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Meta and UMG sign a multiyear agreement about AI, monetization, and more for UMG artists and songwriters on Meta's apps, including WhatsApp for the first time (Jem Aswad/Variety)

Meta and UMG sign a multiyear agreement about AI, ...

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How Uber, facing sexual assault litigation, spent millions trying to get a Nevada ballot proposal that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits (Jessica Silver-Greenberg/New York Times)

How Uber, facing sexual assault litigation, spent ...

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