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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Q&A with Phil Spencer on growing Game Pass, Microsoft's mobile focus, streaming Starfield and other games on mobile, Xbox generations, console prices, and more — Phil Spencer on new hardware, price drops, mid-gen refreshes - and why the company won't ditch Series S. — Interview by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief
More: Thurrott, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, IGN, HotHardware, Kotaku, GameSpot, Digital Trends, Wccftech, Gameranx, GamingBolt, OnMSFT.com, TechRadar, TrueAchievements, Pure Xbox, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Rant, Dot Esports, Pocket Gamer.biz, Metro, and Press Start. Forums: r/XboxSeriesX
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2 — Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said.
More: Meta, Gizmodo, Reuters, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Meta, The Decoder, Neowin, GitHub, and Wired
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces support for California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote — In a surprise move, Apple this week penned a letter to California state senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, voicing support for SB 244 …
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Forums: r/StallmanWasRight, Beehaw, and MacRumors Forums
| Irregular Ideas: |
We are at the tail end of the first wave of LLM-based AI, which performs better than the average human in some tasks but is not enough and is expensive to train — On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign …
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| Brendan Case / Bloomberg: |
Walmart partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials — - Project boosts aerial range capabilities for the retailer — Service will be offered at two stores in the Dallas area
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LinkedIn: Leah Debes, Cosimo Leipold, and Phillip J. Wallace
| David Gewirtz / ZDNet: |
Google announces new security features for Workspace, including zero-trust, data loss prevention, and digital sovereignty controls, rolling out in 2023 and 2024 — Google Workspace, your most secure choice in productivity suites, will be getting even more secure.| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Research teams from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University use AI and electrodes to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar — Scientists use electrodes and AI programs to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar
More: Nature, Nature, WinBuzzer, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, MIT Technology Review, BGR, and NBC News
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: TikTok plans to bar links to Amazon and other e-commerce sites to force people to use TikTok Shop; source says Shop will lose $500M+ in the US in 2023 — The cost of TikTok's online shopping expansion in the U.S. is beginning to add up. — TikTok Shop, the app's nascent shopping service …
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| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut 7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021 — T-Mobile USA Inc. is cutting 7% of its staff, part of an effort to rein in costs as the company spends heavily to attract …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Epic Games debuts the Epic First Run program, offering developers 100% of net revenue for six months if they launch PC games exclusively on the Epic Games Store — Games and apps in the Epic First Run program will also benefit from extra exposure on the storefront.
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LinkedIn: Steve Allison and Ben Board
| VideoCardz.com: |
MSI shares an unlisted video confirming Intel's upcoming 14th Gen CPUs will see no major core count upgrades and will be 3% faster on average than 13th Gen CPUs — MSI unimpressed with 14th Gen Core series — MSI made a mistake of sharing an unlisted video which has now leaked out.
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/hardware, and r/intel
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
To comply with the EU's DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more info on EU targeted ads, give researchers more access, and more — Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work … | Bloomberg: |
Study: 30 sites showed nearly 150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes in May 2023, up 9x since 2019, totaling 3.8B views, enabled by services from Big Tech companies — To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Modular, a platform for developing AI systems, raised $100M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $130M; GV, Greylock, and others invested too — Modular, a startup creating a platform for developing and optimizing AI systems, has raised $100 million in a funding round led …
More: VentureBeat and Reuters
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M — As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) …
More: The Verge, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, CNBC, VentureBeat, Supervised, and The Information
| Nathan McAlone / Insider: |
OnlyFans reports revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B in the FY to November 30, 2022, profit up 24% YoY to $404M, creators up 47% YoY to 3.2M, and users spent $5.6B — - The OnlyFans business is still booming. — OnlyFans users spent $5.6 billion on the platform in 2022, up from $4.8 billion in 2021.
More: The Information, Bloomberg, London Evening Standard, and GOV.UK
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 101% YoY to $13.51B, vs. $11.22B est., Data Center revenue up 171% YoY to $10.32B, and authorizes a $25B buyback — - Nvidia's performance was driven by its data center business, which includes the A100 and H100 AI chips that are needed to build and run artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT.
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LinkedIn: Subhan Ali and Massimo Donna
Forums: Hacker News and r/hardware
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
WBD plans to launch CNN Max, a 24/7 stream pulled from CNN's US and international feeds alongside some original content, in “open beta” on September 27 on Max — - Netflix Added 2.6M U.S. Subscribers In July, Continuing Advertising Momentum Amid Password-Sharing Crackdown, Study Finds
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| Abraham Augustine / TechCabal: |
Toronto-based LemFi, which offers immigrants remittances and other payment services, raised a $33M Series A led by Left Lane, taking its total funding to ~$34M — On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding …
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