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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces AI features coming soon to Meet, including Duet AI taking notes, showing mid-meeting summaries, and “attending” meetings on a user's behalf — If Google Meet's new AI tools are as good as advertised, you might never need to pay attention to another meeting again — or even show up at all.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Google unveils SynthID, a tool that can embed an invisible digital “watermark” into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images — The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse
More: DeepMind Blog, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, BBC, Decrypt, Android Police, Search Engine Journal, BigTechWire, PetaPixel, Mashable, Analytics India Magazine, PCMag, Gizmodo, The Decoder, SlashGear, Engadget, and BGR
Mastodon: @Dhmspector@mastodon.social. X: @googledeepmind and @googledeepmind. LinkedIn: Evan Wright. Forums: Beehaw
| Bloomberg: |
Google adds other companies' AI tools, like Meta's Llama 2 and Anthropic's Claude 2, to Cloud, expands Duet AI in Workspace, partners with Fox Sports, and more — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform …
More: Google Cloud Blog, Wall Street Journal, Google Cloud Blog, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Reuters, Google Cloud Blog, Voicebot.ai, The Information, Silicon Republic, PYMNTS.com, Tech Xplore, Light Reading, The Decoder, Google Cloud Blog, PR Newswire, ZDNet, Google Cloud Blog, Google Cloud Blog, SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, and TechCrunch
X: @googleworkspace, @thomasortk, and @googleworkspace
LinkedIn: Behshad Behzadi, Maruthy Vedam, Allan Thygesen, Sayeed Choudhury, Amin Vahdat, and Ahmad Al-Dahle
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Google Chat with a redesign, Duet AI tools, “huddle” audio and video calls, a group channel capacity increase from 50K to 500K, and more — Google is making some big changes to Google Chat, its answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More: Google Cloud Blog, Cloud Computing News, The Register, CIO Dive, and DatacenterDynamics
LinkedIn: Sumit Gupta, Vishal Mishra, and Amin Vahdat
| Rebecca Klar / The Hill: |
More: Transparency Center, Gizmodo, and Engadget
Bluesky: @yoyoel.com. X: @peacepalace_kh, @daniellerose84, and @thomasgermain. Facebook: Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: Google Workspace Updates, Ars Technica, BGR, HotHardware, Android Central, and Android Police
X: @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @benbajarin, @maxwinebach, and @jordannovet
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI led an effort to dismantle the Qakbot botnet, which ransomware gangs used as an infection vector for years, on August 25 after infiltrating its network — Qakbot, one of the largest and longest-running botnets to date, was taken down following a multinational law enforcement operation spearheaded …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces a September 12 event at 10am PT at Apple Park titled “Wonderlust”, where four iPhone 15 models, the Apple Watch Series 9, and more are expected — Apple today announced plans to hold a special event on Tuesday, September 12 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, GSMArena.com, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Supercharged, Pocket-lint, CNET, WHDH-TV, iThinkDifferent, Wccftech, PetaPixel, Android Headlines, TweakTown, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, Lifewire, OS X Daily, MSPoweruser, Laptop Mag, iMore, MacDailyNews, ZDNet, Forbes, Dexerto, Business Today, Appleosophy, MacRumors, Neowin, Tom's Guide, SlashGear, TidBITS, T3, BGR, CrackBerry, PCMag, AppleInsider, Thurrott, The Apple Post, Redmond Pie, Gadgets & Wearables, PhoneArena, Ars Technica, MacStories, International Business Times, MacRumors, SPARROWS NEWS, Pocketnow, Engadget, IGN, BigTechWire, TechRadar, TechCrunch, and Android Authority
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Forums: r/tmobile, r/popculturechat, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Meta removes the largest Chinese influence campaign to date; the campaign spans thousands of accounts, and many are still active on TikTok, X, and Reddit — The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is on pace to generate more than $1B in revenue over the next 12 months from the sale of AI software and the computing capacity that powers it — OpenAI is currently on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue over the next 12 months from the sale of artificial intelligence software …
More: Bloomberg and Reuters
X: @amir, @ejzim, @benitoz, @pradeeepk, and @scobleizer. LinkedIn: John Curtius. Forums: r/singularity
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
HP Q3: revenue down 10% YoY to $13.2B, vs. $13.4B est., Personal Systems revenue down 11% YoY to $8.9B, and Printing revenue down 7% YoY to $4.3B; HPQ falls 5%+ — HP reported a mixed third quarter with sales lower than expected. CEO Enrique Lores said, “the external environment … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
In a “safety” blog post, X announces “paid-for promoted political posts”, starting in the US, and plans to “provide a global advertising transparency center” — X (née Twitter) published a “safety” brief on its blog today outlining new policies …
More: Twitter, The Guardian, Social Media Today, SlashGear, Deadline, Ars Technica, Cryptopolitan, Gizmodo, PCMag, Search Engine Land, Livemint, and Engadget
Mastodon: @runsm0oth@universeodon.com. X: @safety, @__esteiner, @kyliebytes, @thesullivan, @melissaryan, @x, @adamkovac, @katieharbath, @moonalice, and @__esteiner
| CoinDesk: |
A US court rules that the SEC must review its rejection of Grayscale's bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an ETF after approving two bitcoin ETPs — A federal appeals court ordered the SEC to “vacate” its rejection of the trust issuer's bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund.
More: Reuters, Unchained Crypto, Bloomberg, CryptoPotato, Fortune, Blockworks, CNBC, Grayscale Investments, Finbold, Cryptopolitan, NewsBTC, CNBC, Forbes, ZyCrypto, Crypto Daily, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, The Block, CoinGape, Financial Times, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoinist.com, Associated Press, Metaverse Post, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bloomberg, DL News, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Watcher Guru, The Crypto Basic, Ethereum World News, Wccftech, Protos, PYMNTS.com, nft now, CryptoGlobe, CryptoSlate, TechCrunch, and Crypto Briefing
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Forums: r/ethtrader and r/btc
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches a new native macOS app via its website, coming soon to the App Store, that lets eight users join video calls and 32 users join audio calls — WhatsApp said that it has launched a new native app for Mac today. The app will allow users to participate in video calls … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube now lets creators take an educational training course when they receive a warning, which YouTube lifts if they don't violate the same policy for 90 days — YouTube announced this morning a change to its Community Guidelines that impact creators who break its rules.
More: YouTube Official Blog, Social Media Today, HBR.org, PCMag, Engadget, The Verge, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Tubefilter, and Gizmodo. X: @nealmohan
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM extends its Google Cloud partnership to use AI, leveraging chatbots for handling simple OnStar calls, freeing up operators to address more complex requests — General Motors is using conversational AI chatbots to handle simple OnStar calls, freeing up the service's human employees …
More: Google Cloud, TechCrunch, The Messenger, CNBC, Engadget, CrackBerry, and PCMag. X: @danielraffel
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta Avatars finally get legs in Horizon Home, with the Quest v57 update on the Public Test Channel, after Meta said in October 2022 they were “coming soon” — Meta Avatars finally have legs in Quest Home with the v57 update on the Public Test Channel.
More: Social Media Today, Engadget, MIXED Reality News, Android Central, Mashable, Game Is Hard, and Road to VR
Threads: @nya_vr_. X: @sadlyitsbradley, @lunayian, @waifuverseai, @jenn_elias, @lunayian, @lunayian, @jacky2chau, @dsaxfilm, and @lunayian
Forums: r/OculusQuest and r/OculusQuest
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Omdia: Apple shipped 26.5M iPhone 14 Pro Max units in H1 2023, the most out of any model from any manufacturer; Apple makes all four of the top-shipping models — - Last year, the iPhone 13 was the bestselling device on the market, indicating consumers were still buying flagship devices but at the entry level rather than the top end.
More: Omdia, MacRumors, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, iThinkDifferent, The Indian Express, BGR, Coinspeaker, Vigour Times, and TechSpot. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
More: Ming-Chi Kuo, MobileSyrup, The Apple Post, The Verge, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, Apple Must, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, Insider, Supercharged, and 9to5Mac
X: @apollozac and @thetech_wiz
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
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