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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking — The White House is bringing in AI's top seven companies Friday to make a series of voluntary promises to protect users.
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| Lindsey Choo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: the average time spent in the app has decreased from 19 minutes to four — Data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options such as a chronological feed
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit removes three moderators and takes charge of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close in protest of the platform's API pricing changes — Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform's API pricing changes.
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| Rich Stanton / PC Gamer: |
Troy Hunt: the sensitive info of almost 4,000 Roblox Developer Conference attendees from 2017 to 2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak this week — This may cost the company a few Robux. — The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach …
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| Julie Coleman / CNBC: |
Digital World Acquisition Corp., which is seeking to take Truth Social public via a SPAC merger, settles fraud charges with the US SEC for $18M; DWAC is up 50%+ — - Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. soared more than 50% on Friday after the company reached an $18 million dollar fraud settlement with the SEC.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Telegram launches Stories, initially for its Premium subscribers, letting users control who can see their stories and how long they last before disappearing — You can display them forever or make them disappear at various times up to 48 hours. — Telegram's new Stories feature is here as promised … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
NYC's MTA used AI-powered surveillance software at seven subway stations in May 2023 to track fare evaders, and plans to expand to ~12 more by the end of 2023 — An MTA spokesperson said the software doesn't flag fare evaders to New York police but declined to comment on whether that policy could change.
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify plans to raise its US ad-free premium tier's price from $9.99/month to $10.99/month and roll out price increases globally in the coming months — Audio company had avoided raising prices, but faces investor pressure to increase profitability| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in recent months, Sergey Brin increased his Google visits to three to four days a week, working with researchers on Gemini, an AI model to rival GPT-4 — Co-founder is working alongside AI researchers at tech giant's headquarters, aiding efforts to build powerful Gemini system
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
A look at Samsung's $17B and Texas Instruments' $30B chip fabs in Texas, as the state becomes a US chipmaking hub with six projects expected to create 8K+ jobs — WATCH NOW — How Texas became the center of U.S. chipmaking — On a 1,200-acre plot of land in a small town 30 miles north of Austin … | Reuters: |
OpenAI's head of trust and safety Dave Willner leaves the company, citing the job's pressures on his family life and saying he'd be available for advisory work — OpenAI's head of trust and safety Dave Willner is leaving the company, he said in a LinkedIn post on Friday …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Amazon settles with the US DOJ and the FTC for $25M over not complying with parents' requests to delete their kids' Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data — The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million fine … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
How Vietnam-based 1Byte, which sells TheTruthSpy stalkerware, created networks of fake sellers with forged US passports to evade detection and funnel payments — A network of fake sellers allowed a global phone surveillance ring to operate under the radar for years
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Twitter: @lorenzofb, @lainie, and @lorenzofb
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Letter: the US SEC subpoenaed Bolt and sent a notice to former CEO Ryan Breslow in 2022 over their past misleading statements to current and potential investors — The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed e-commerce software startup Bolt and sent a notice to co-founder …
More: The Block. Bluesky: @hunterwalk.com. Twitter: @kylebrussell, @amir, @stevenbward, @amir, @anothercohen, and @kateclarktweets
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