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| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google tells Canada's government it will remove Canadian news links from Search, News, and Discover and close Google News Showcase when Bill C-18 takes effect — President of Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet … The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 …
More: CTV News, Fortune, Thurrott, The Keyword, The Hill, NPR, NBC News, Michael Geist, Toronto Star, Gizmodo, The Guardian, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, Globe and Mail, Neowin, MobileSyrup, 9to5Google, The Hollywood Reporter, BBC, Engadget, Android Central, and The Verge
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Forums: Hacker News, r/canada, r/CanadianConservative, and r/worldnews
| 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: San Francisco Business Journal, Reuters, TechCrunch, Voicebot.ai, Inflection AI, Unite.AI, Decrypt, VentureBeat, Fortune, Crunchbase News, Tech Startups, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Financial Times, and Bloomberg
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| Kotaku: |
Niantic lays off 230 employees, closes its Los Angeles studio, and moves away from in-house game development, saying its expenses grew faster than its revenue — Pokémon Go will remain one of Niantic's top priorities moving forward — Niantic is shuttering its Los Angeles studio …
More: Niantic Labs, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, GameRevolution, TheGamer, CNBC, PhoneArena, IGN, Eurogamer.net, Neowin, Polygon, The Verge, Engadget, Pocket Gamer.biz, Wall Street Journal, Destructoid, GameSpot, VentureBeat, Mobilegamer.biz, Game Rant, Dexerto, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, and My Nintendo News
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Forums: r/Ingress, r/PikminBloomApp, and r/nbaallworldhub
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad block users to three videos, giving them the option to turn off ad blockers or subscribe to YouTube Premium — YouTube is currently running what it describes as a “small experiment globally,” warning users to toggle off their ad blockers …
More: Android Authority, Android Police, The Verge, Android Central, TechRadar, SlashGear, Thurrott, and Phandroid
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to add full-screen, sound-on video ads to Twitter's short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hopes 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, Wall Street Journal, Social Media Today, Cryptopolitan, Fortune, and Insider
Bluesky: @sarahposner.bsky.social. Mastodon: @therealahall@infosec.exchange, @dmnelson@mastodon.social, @colincornaby@mastodon.social, @aristeon89@mastodon.online, @emilygorcenski@indieweb …, @MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee, and @juandesant@astrodon.social
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on “Public Intellectual Marc”, software and the physical world, his AI essay, COVID-19, Twitter, China, a16z, crypto bets, and more — Today's Stratechery Interview — and the last Interview of the summer — is with Marc Andreessen.| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC, after similar applications from BlackRock, Invesco, WisdomTree, Valkyrie, Bitwise, and others — Fidelity Investments is the latest financial services heavyweight to throw its name into the race to offer the first US exchange-traded fund investing in Bitcoin.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start as soon as this year with select Android app developers — Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads, setting the company up to eventually compete with Google and Apple's app stores.
More: 9to5Mac. Mastodon: @syaochan@mastodon.online. Twitter: @supbagholder, @alexeheath, @supbagholder, and @supbagholder
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including GPT-generated buying guides in the US, to its Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge's sidebar — 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, Neowin, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Windows Central, Mashable, Thurrott, PCMag, BigTechWire, SlashGear, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, Android Authority, and XDA Developers
Twitter: @yusuf_i_mehdi and @tomwarren
| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes — In December 2021, San Francisco police were working to solve the murder of an Uber driver. As detectives reviewed local surveillance footage … | Bloomberg: |
Documents and sources: in the coming weeks, the FTC plans to file a far-reaching antitrust lawsuit against Amazon's marketplace, after months of honing its case — 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: Ars Technica, New York Post, TechCrunch, Insider, The Information, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, and CNBC
Twitter: @progresschamber and @annaedge4
Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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.| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022, less than half of AWS' revenue in the same period — For years Microsoft has kept a lid on details about the true size of its Azure cloud server rental business …
More: SiliconANGLE and The Verge
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after an Adalytics report found 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: Gizmodo, The Register, The Keyword, LinkedIn, AdExchanger, PhoneArena, Tech.co, New York Post, and Adalytics
Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Twitter: @chronotope, @foodofseals, @ralph_grabowski, @checkmyadshq, @nandoodles, @jason_kint, @catthekin, and @checkmyadshq
| 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
| Richard Priday / Tom's Guide: |
Asus Zenfone 10 review: compact for a 5.9" display, powerful performance, and excellent battery life, but limited cameras and only two years of software updates — Everything you need in a premium Android phone, in a surprisingly small frame — Tom's Guide Verdict … Why you can trust Tom's Guide?
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| 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, Crowdfund Insider, Axios, FinTech Global, and AIN.Capital
| 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 …
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Twitter: @maywongcna, @nikkeiasia, @oversightboard, @rebtanhs, and @oversightboard
| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
NYC-based Venn, which sells a Secure Enclave product that can be installed and controlled on remote employee laptops, raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring — New York startup scores early stage financing to build new technology to replace virtual desktop infrastructure.
More: Venn, SiliconANGLE, Venn Software, BankInfoSecurity.com, TechNewsWorld, FinSMEs, and FinTech Global
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Binance says its euro banking partner Paysafe will stop supporting the exchange on September 26; Binance recently retreated from the UK, Netherlands, and Cyprus — The exchange recently announced retreats from the U.K., Netherlands and Cyprus. — Binance's euros banking partner … | 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 …
Twitter: @eliotwb and @bamabonds
| 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: Reuters, Tom's Hardware, 9to5Mac, and Patently Apple
| 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 …
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Twitter: @dylanmcd8, @pixelandpoly, @cheflubu_atl, @slicedlime, and @asakurapiku
Forums: r/Minecraft and r/technology
| 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 … | 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: Business Wire, The Information, Runway, TechCrunch, Metaverse Post, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, and Reuters
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