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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
More: Wing Blog, Walmart Inc., The Verge, ZDNet, Engadget, Forbes, CNET, SlashGear, TechCrunch, PCMag, DroneDJ, Mashable, and PYMNTS.com
LinkedIn: Cosimo Leipold, Phillip J. Wallace, and Leah Debes
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta debuts Code Llama, which can generate code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use — 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, GitHub, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Neowin, nft now, Voicebot.ai, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, and Wired
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LinkedIn: Jia Li, Justin Gerrard, Will Knight, Amit Sangani, Sahar Mor, Sam Burgoyne, Adnan Boz, and Joelle Pineau. Forums: Hacker News
| Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal: |
Shein acquires ~33% of Forever 21 parent company Sparc and Sparc takes a Shein minority stake, letting Shein sell Forever 21 items and operate inside its stores — Online fashion giant invests in company that operates retailer, paving way to sell its products — Shein and Forever 21 may soon be fast-fashion friends.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its “all the space you need” storage plan to 5TB, after some abused the tier by pooling storage, reselling, and more — - Company says some abused ‘all the space you need’ policy — Majority of users will see storage capped at 5 terabytes
More: Work in Progress, The Register, Engadget, WebProNews, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| 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 … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Meta rolls out its Threads web app to all users, featuring an app bar at the top with the same five tabs as in the mobile app; tapping Home refreshes the Feed — Following Tuesday's announcement, Meta is widely rolling out the Threads web app, and it offers a pretty straightforward translation of the mobile experience.
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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/intel, and r/hardware
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We are at the tail end of the first wave of LLM-based AI, which outperforms the average human in some tasks but is not good 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 I had never seen before …
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| 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) … | Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Q&A with Phil Spencer on Game Pass, Microsoft's mobile focus, streaming story-based games like Starfield 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
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Forums: r/XboxSeriesS and r/XboxSeriesX
| 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.| 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 … | Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $446M, vs. $406M est., net loss up 11% YoY to $206M, and GMV up 25% YoY to $5.5B, vs. $5.3B est.; AFRM jumps 5%+ — Company ‘demonstrated that the business can continue to expand profitably even in a high interest rate environment,’ CFO says
More: Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, Benzinga, Barron's Online, CNBC, Investing.com, Investing.com India, Best Stocks, Affirm, and Affirm
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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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on a streaming version of ESPN, perhaps helping with distribution and taking a minority stake — Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, said people familiar with the matter.| Associated Press: |
Uber raises the minimum age requirement for new ride-hailing California drivers to 25, but not Uber Eats, citing the rising costs of commercial auto insurance — Uber raised the minimum age requirement for most of its new drivers in California to 25 on Thursday under rules the company … | 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, Financial Times, GOV.UK, London Evening Standard, and Variety
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| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
A US judge dismissed an RNC lawsuit alleging Google's spam filters illegally suppressed their emails, saying the RNC hadn't shown that Google acted in bad faith — The court dismissed claims that the company unfairly suppressed the committee's viewpoints. — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed …
More: Bloomberg
| 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| Katherine Ross / Blockworks: |
The US DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm, of Washington, and Roman Semenov, a Russian national, with money laundering and sanctions violations — The inclusion of the Tornado Cash co-founder on the list marks an escalation of the US government's previous investigations into the crypto mixer
More: Coin Center, U.S. Department …, US Department of Justice, US Department of Justice, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, Bitcoin News, Reuters, Crypto Daily, The Block, CryptoPotato, crypto.news, CoinNews, Metaverse Post, Coinpedia Fintech News, CNBC, Chainalysis, and The Block
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency, r/ethtrader, and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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: San Francisco Business Journal, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
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São Paulo-based Nomad, which offers Brazilians access to financial services in the US, raised a $61M Series B led by Tiger Global at a ~$361M valuation — Brazilian financial tech firm Nomad raised $61 million in an investment round led by Tiger Global Management …
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