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August 1, 2023, 6:00 PM

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Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging CCDH researchers violated Twitter's terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the site  —  X, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a research group that had investigated hate speech on the social media platform …
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Halcyon: Cloudzy, a Wyoming-registered web hosting company likely operating out of Tehran, is acting as a command-and-control provider for state-backed hackers  —  A little-known cloud company provided web hosting and internet services to more than two dozen different state-sponsored hacking groups …
Financial Times:
Source: Meta plans to release AI chatbots with personalities, which staff call “personas”, like Abraham Lincoln, as soon as September 2023, to boost engagement  —  Facebook owner seeks to seize on hype for AI while challenging rivals such as OpenAI, Snap and TikTok
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon expands its Amazon Clinic virtual health service to 50 US states and DC, available via video or texting; regulations limit the SMS feature to 34 states  —  - Amazon is expanding its virtual clinic service nationwide.  — The company launched Amazon Clinic last November …
Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Meta says it has begun ending access to news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, following a new law that would force it to negotiate deals to pay publishers  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday it has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia, Pixar, and the Linux Foundation form the Alliance for OpenUSD, aiming to standardize Pixar's Universal Scene Description  —  Five major companies in the 3D content industry — Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Nvidia and Pixar — have come together to form the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD).
Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal:
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.23B, gross bookings up 16% YoY to $33.6B, and a $394M net income, up from a $2.6B loss in Q2 2022, its first profit  —  Ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew in the second quarter, though freight shrank  —  Uber Technologies posted …
Bloomberg:
After Curve disclosed a hack, CRV dropped by ~25% in three days, prompting fears of wider market turbulence; DefiLlama: crypto using Curve fell ~50% to $1.9B  —  - Curve's native CRV coin posted three-day, 25% slump after hack  — Drop raised concerns about wider fallout from platform's woes
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
To challenge TikTok, YouTube releases new Shorts creation tools for remixing, adding effects, going live, as well as a new interactive Q&A sticker and more  —  As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools for its own short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Under EU pressure, Meta offers to seek user consent in Europe for targeted ads based on users' activity to comply with GDPR, sources say as soon as October 2023  —  Under pressure from regulators, the Facebook and Instagram owner proposes asking users to opt in before targeting ads with their digital activity
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD reports Q2 revenue down 18% YoY to $5.36B, net income down 94% to $27M, Client revenue down 54% to $998M, and Data Center revenue down 11% to $1.3B  —  - AMD said revenue for the second quarter fell 18% from a year earlier.  — The company's sales forecast for the third quarter trailed analysts' estimates.
Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg:
Court filings: FTX Group details a draft plan to repay creditors, including settling claims in USD and wiping out FTT; seven classes of creditors can now vote  —  - Customer claims to be valued in US dollars as of bankruptcy  — Company hasn't ruled out rebooting offshore exchange
New York Times:
The FBI says a contractor misled the agency and used NSO's Landmark to track people in Mexico without consent; the FBI terminated the contract in April 2023  —  After a Times report, the bureau canceled its contract with a government contractor that used the tool on its behalf.  But questions remain.
Bloomberg:
Sources: senior EU and US officials are concerned about China's accelerated push into the production of older-generation chips made with 28nm equipment or above  —  - China is building more plants than others despite US sanctions  — Officials are worried about impact on domestic chip plans
More: Tom's Hardware and The Hill
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