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Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site's URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Economic Times, Engadget, The Verge, and The Wrap
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X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @lexnfx, @tomcoates, @edzitron, @yashar, @kyliebytes, @yashar, @xdaily, @lum_, @lauraloomer, @kyliebytes, @rmac18, @mcwm, @jen_mcfadden, @daveleebbg, @annevedingell, @parismarx, @kronykal, @kyliebytes, @jason_kint, @kyliebytes, @ivanthek, @karaswisher, @beijingpalmer, @cit_uprising, @killedbygoogle, @erinkwoo, @kyliebytes, @kwalkertweets, @kyliebytes, @lauraloomer, @mollyjongfast, @petersterne, and @phil_lewis_. Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X says the company fixed a bug that prevented the service from displaying many images from before 2014 over the weekend, and that “no images or data were lost” — Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted …
More: The Guardian, Business Today, The Economic Times, Techdirt, Digital Trends, Engadget, GovTech, MobileSyrup, Fortune, TechCrunch, Insider, Livemint, Social Media Today, and Gizchina
Forums: r/AnythingGoesNews, r/inthenews, and r/AirlinerAbduction2014
| CNBC: |
SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM — - Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during …
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Bluesky: @tristanr.bsky.social. X: @arjunkharpal, @tanayj, @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @tiernanraytech, and @natebecker
| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
More: Insider, UPROXX, On my Om, Benzinga, and The Verge
Threads: @moskov. Mastodon: @JamesGleick@zirk.us, @MoiraEve@mastodon.world, @TimKarr@mastodon.social, @markmetz@sfba.social, @robpegoraro@journa.host, and @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social
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| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
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X: @business, @tomcoates, @mehdirhasan, @robtornoe, and @nxthompson
Forums: r/UkrainianConflict and r/politics
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard listed favorable arguments when asked about “benefits” of slavery, genocide, fascism, and colonization — Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson from any Fortune 500 Company …
More: Gizmodo. X: @sarafina7707, @gizmodo, @weirdstrug, @blakersdozen, @geekinchief, @ttp_updates, @blakersdozen, @nobiggovduh, and @weirdstrug
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they more are powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle for the first time, as the companies close the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin — On Monday, Coinbase and Circle, the two companies behind USD Coin, settled on new terms that would change the governance …
More: Coinbase, CoinDesk, CryptoPotato, Coinpedia Fintech News, Forkast, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, Blockworks, The Block, Bitcoinist.com, Watcher Guru, Bloomberg, Decrypt, Unchained Crypto, CryptoSlate, The Information, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
X: @jerallaire, @jerallaire, @coinbase, @jerallaire, @architect9000, @iampaulgrewal, and @brian_armstrong. LinkedIn: Victoria Wong
| Reuters: |
Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; the stock jumps 15%+ — SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale …
More: SiliconANGLE, iTnews, The Information, CRN, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns — The growth correlates with the more than $25 million in revenue generated by the platform since its Aug. 10 launch.
More: The Block, Decrypt, Ethereum World News, The Week, Cryptonews, Crypto Briefing, BeInCrypto, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, Metaverse Post, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
X: @bantg, @friendtech, @bantg, @shazow, @poordart, @nikitabier, @dogetoshi, @blknoiz06, @liron, @jerallaire, @bantg, @tomkysar, @alexsmirnov__, @0xfoobar, and @dogetoshi
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Genesis Therapeutics, which uses AI to discover and develop small-molecule drugs, raised a $200M Series B co-led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $280M — Artificial intelligence and biotech are two of the sectors that have been able to buck the current sluggish pace of venture capital spending.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom Q2: revenue up 3.6% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.12B est., net income up 298% YoY to $182M, enterprise customers up 1% QoQ to ~218.1K, and raises FY 2024 guidance — - Zoom surpassed expectations on the top and bottom lines and pushed up full-year guidance. — During the quarter Zoom … | Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
A draft US and ByteDance summer 2022 agreement to avoid a TikTok ban would give US agencies power to block app policy changes, veto executive hirings, and more — For the past several years the Biden Administration and TikTok have been negotiating a deal to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned app.| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
China's metaverse proposals at the UN's ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country's social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy — China wants to define how a new, promising technology called the metaverse works — and it is pushing proposals that bear …
More: Politico, Protos, CryptoPotato, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, and Cointelegraph
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