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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
In court, Satya Nadella says he would love to end “exclusives on consoles”; Bobby Kotick says CoD being exclusive would cause “revolt” and “reputational damage” — In federal court, Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick opposed an attempt by the F.T.C …
More: The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, Video Games Chronicle, Bloomberg, Thurrott, IGN, OnMSFT.com, The Verge, Kotaku, Techlusive, TheGamer, WinBuzzer, Insider Gaming, Wall Street Journal, GamingBolt, IGN, Neowin, IGN, Game Rant, TrueAchievements, BigTechWire, Wccftech, GameRevolution, Reuters, Eurogamer.net, GameSpot, Press Start, TweakTown, CNBC, GamesRadar, MobileSyrup, Windows Central, Associated Press, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Danny Ryba. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @tomwarren, @charlieintel, @charlieintel, @kellen_browning, @deeketweak, @fosspatents, @charlieintel, @notpatrick, @gregbensinger, @charlieintel, @fosspatents, @deeketweak, @charlieintel, @rurikhan, @charlieintel, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/gaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/XboxSeriesX, r/videogames, and Slashdot
| The Verge: |
Sony accidentally revealed confidential PlayStation information and its Call of Duty revenue by redacting a court document with a Sharpie, revealed after a scan — Sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake.
More: IGN, The Verge, TechSpot, Gameranx, KitGuru, Eurogamer.net, Press Start, Gamereactor UK, Dexerto, The Information, SlashGear, Game Rant, Stevivor, PC Gamer, Ars Technica, Video Games Chronicle, GamesIndustry.biz, Destructoid, Appuals.com, GameSpot, and Dot Esports
Mastodon: @irenes@mastodon.social. Twitter: @tomwarren, @tha_rami, @madhavchanchani, @aricohn, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News, r/PS4, r/playstation, and Slashdot
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads on Twitter's short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hope of selling more ads — New CEO hits the ground running with plans for new ads offering and tells staff to get ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’
More: New York Times, Fortune, Insider, Cryptopolitan, and Reuters
Bluesky: @sarahposner.bsky.social. Twitter: @mshannahmurphy, @jayrosen_nyu, @rmac18, @scottemovienerd, @rmac18, @benmullin, @benmullin, @emilygorcenski, @charlotte_stein, @georgehahn, @slclunk, @gergelyorosz, @paologerbaudo, @iamspilly, @huntclancy, @timkarr, @marxculture, @sloanefragment, @digiphile, @mshannahmurphy, @jangles, @ashdylanlit, and @sharonodea. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Inflection AI, a startup led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman that released its Pi chatbot in May 2023, raised $1.3B, a source says at a $4B valuation — Backed by Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman …
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Financial Times, WinBuzzer, and Business Wire
LinkedIn: Alex Konrad. Twitter: @mhbergen, @trace_cohen, @saranormous, @mustafasuleymn, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, @tomaxwell, @alex, @alexrkonrad, and @alexrkonrad. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after a report suggested millions of ads served via YouTube's TrueView system are hidden from users — Study shows millions of ads are hidden away in violation of Google-owned group's policies — Advertising industry figures …
More: The Keyword, AdExchanger, Gizmodo, Adalytics, PhoneArena, The Guardian, Phandroid, Android Police, Social Media Today, Tubefilter, Search Engine Land, New York Post, Engadget, Forbes, Pocket Gamer.biz, 9to5Google, WinBuzzer, Search Engine Journal, and The Information
Twitter: @ralph_grabowski, @foodofseals, @checkmyadshq, @nandoodles, and @checkmyadshq
| Joshua Wolens / PC Gamer: |
Reddit user sliced_lime, most likely Mojang's Mikael Hedberg, says Mojang no longer plans to post changelogs to r/Minecraft due to Reddit's API pricing changes — The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward. — If you want official updates …
More: The Verge, The Drum, CNBC, Eurogamer.net, Gamereactor UK, Dexerto, Kotaku, GameSpot, PCMag, Neowin, Forbes, and Beehaw
Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @dylanmcd8, @slicedlime, @asakurapiku, @cheflubu_atl, and @pixelandpoly
Forums: r/Minecraft and r/technology
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: Wired, Gizmodo, and MobileSyrup
Mastodon: @matthewcassinelli …, @waxy@xoxo.zone, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @EshuMarneedi@mastodon.social, and @astatide@tech.lgbt. Twitter: @ow
Forums: r/technology and r/ModCoord
| Bloomberg: |
Documents and sources: the FTC plans to file a far-reaching case focused on Amazon's core marketplace in the coming weeks after months of honing the complaint — Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she's gearing up for the Big One.
More: Gizmodo, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Insider, New York Post, CNBC, and The Hill
Twitter: @progresschamber and @annaedge4
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including AI-generated buying guides in the US, to its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge — Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.
More: Bing Blogs, Search Engine Land, Windows Central, PCMag, The Verge, Tom's Guide, and Mashable. Twitter: @yusuf_i_mehdi
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Binance says its euro banking partner Paysafe plans to stop supporting the exchange on September 26, after a retreat from the UK, the Netherlands, and Cyprus — The exchange recently announced retreats from the U.K., Netherlands and Cyprus. — Binance's euros banking partner … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Activists and researchers file a GDPR complaint against Pornhub in Italy, claiming the company is “illegally” handling users' data; the process could take years — Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR.
More: Mashable. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. Twitter: @afrontiercity. Forums: r/technology
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snap announces that Snapchat+, which lets users access experimental and pre-released features for $3.99 per month, reached 4M paid subscribers in its first year — Snapchat on Thursday will announce that its subscription service, Snapchat+, has reached 4 million paid subscribers in its first year, executives told Axios.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
ADL survey of 2,139 US people: 33% of adults and 51% of teens aged 13 to 17 reported being harassed online in 2023, up from 23% and 36%, respectively, in 2022 — More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League …
More: ADL, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Social Media Today, Jerusalem Post, The Independent, and The Hill
Twitter: @yaeleisenstat, @morning_joe, @jgreenblattadl, @inafried, @sarahkateellis, @axios, @glaad, and @axios
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Vienna-based One Trading, formerly called Bitpanda Pro, raised a €30M Series A led by Valar Ventures, as the digital asset exchange separates from Bitpanda — The crypto exchange has split from Bitpanda and now operates as One Trading. — Austria-based One Trading …
More: The Block, Axios, FinTech Global, AIN.Capital, Finextra, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, AltFi, TechCrunch, Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, and Bloomberg
| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tiger Global refused hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months for being too low; on January 1, Tiger managed $51B, including $37B in VC — Tiger Global Management turned down hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months because it felt the offers were too low … | Washington Post: |
Meta's Oversight Board calls for Meta to suspend Cambodian PM Hun Sen on Facebook and Instagram, the first time the Board has asked Meta to ban a head of state — MANILA — The social media giant Meta's Oversight Board called Thursday for the immediate suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister …
More: Engadget, Nikkei Asia, Oversight Board, Gizmodo, Associated Press, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and Reuters
Twitter: @oversightboard, @rebtanhs, and @oversightboard
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Runway AI, which lets customers generate videos from text prompts, raised $141M from Google, Nvidia, and others, taking its total funding to ~$237M — Runway AI Inc., whose artificial intelligence software can create a short video from just a few typed words …
More: FinSMEs and Runway
Twitter: @graceisford, @lux_capital, @javilopen, @sarahcat21, @mhdempsey, and @techjournalist. Thanks:@colegarry2
| New York Times: |
A test of five AI-image detection tools finds they tend to struggle with altered and low-quality images and sometimes fail even when an image is obviously fake — The pope did not wear Balenciaga. And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing. In recent months, however … | Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC and its suppliers plan to send several hundred more workers from Taiwan to Arizona to speed up building its US plant, which is behind schedule — World's largest contract chipmaker faces delays in Arizona project as market slows — Construction of TSMC's chip plant in Arizona …
More: Tom's Hardware, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Patently Apple, Financial Times, and AppleInsider
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Source: at a June 30 hearing, Apple plans to argue that the EU wrongly accused the company of illegal App Store curbs, after complaints from Spotify and others — Apple Inc. is set for a showdown with European Union antitrust regulators, insisting it doesn't need to make any more changes … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on “Public Intellectual Marc”, software and the physical world, his essay on AI, COVID-19, China, a16z, crypto investments, and more — Today's Stratechery Interview — and the last Interview of the summer — is with Marc Andreessen.
Twitter: @packym
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta publishes a deep dive into how AI recommends Facebook and Instagram content, including 22 “system cards” covering AI use in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more — Meta has published a deep dive into the company's social media algorithms in a bid to demystify how content is recommended for Instagram and Facebook users.
More: Meta, TechCrunch, Engadget, TechCrunch, Meta AI, Dexerto, Gizmodo, and SiliconANGLE. Twitter: @mrinaldesai
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: after struggling to raise at a $4B valuation, Stability AI secured a convertible note worth less than $25M; Stability denies having fundraising issues — Stability AI, the artificial intelligence startup that has been struggling to raise funding at a $4 billion valuation …
Twitter: @katie_roof and @lynnmdoan
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
A California law firm launches a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company violated millions of internet users' rights by scraping their data — A California law firm says the company's use of scraped data from the web violates the rights of millions of internet users
More: PCMag, The Register, Insider, Reuters, OnMSFT.com, WinBuzzer, Tech.co, CNN, Cryptopolitan, Clarkson, Fortune, Neowin, Bloomberg Law, LAW.com, Clarkson, Cointelegraph, Clarkson, Silicon Republic, and This is where I come …
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
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