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Visa expands its USDC stablecoin settlements to Solana, partnering with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilots, and has already moved millions of USDC via VisaNet — - Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, forming partnerships with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilot programs.| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Filing: SoftBank prices Arm's shares at $47 and $51, aiming to raise up to $4.87B by selling 95.5M shares, for a $52B+ valuation and the biggest US IPO of 2023 — SoftBank Group's (9984.T) Arm is aiming to raise up to $4.87 billion in the chip designer's U.S. initial public offering, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.| Wall Street Journal: |
How Spotify's $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows are not profitable, debates over exclusivity, cutting original shows, and more — The prospect of podcast riches led to aggressive investments in celebrity deals and original programming for what appeared a sky's-the-limit media frontier
More: MIT Technology Review and Podnews
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out a new Xbox dashboard that lets users stream Xbox gameplay to anyone on Discord one-way, a new way to report Xbox audio clips, and more — Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox dashboard for September that includes the ability to stream your Xbox gameplay to Discord friends …
More: Xbox Wire, Thurrott, TrueAchievements, KitGuru, Gameranx, Pure Xbox, and OnMSFT.com
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple and Microsoft have argued that iMessage and Bing are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” set to be regulated under the EU's DMA — Battle comes ahead of publication of first list of services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries — The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the UK, Germany and France.
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources detail a tumultuous 12 months for Sequoia: spinning off its highly profitable Chinese arm, its FTX and Twitter bets souring, and Michael Moritz leaving — Silicon Valley's premier venture firm undergoes ‘profound change’ after China splits and bets on FTX and Twitter sour
X: @georgenhammond, @bondhack, and @refsrc
| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Antenna: MLS Season Pass had 110K US signups on July 21, the day of Messi's first MLS match, up from 6,143 on July 20; July was TV+'s best signup month in 2023 — Soccer superstar attracts over 110,000 sign-ups to MLS Season Pass on day of first game — Soccer superstar Lionel Messi helped drive a surge in U.S. subscriptions to
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth profile of OpenAI, Sam Altman, CTO Greg Brockman, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones along the way to building an AGI — The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything.
More: Analytics India Magazine. X: @scottnover, @katiedrumm, @austincarr, and @stevenlevy
Forums: r/singularity and r/artificial
| New York Times: |
Analysis: lawyers, accountants, consultants, and more have charged $700M+ in fees since 2022 in the bankruptcies of FTX, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, and Genesis — Bankruptcy lawyers and other corporate turnaround specialists have reaped major fees from the bankruptcies of five cryptocurrency companies, including FTX.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop — In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League.
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Forums: r/Judaism, r/TrueAnon, r/stupidpol, r/Twitter, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/conspiracy, r/elonmusk, and Beehaw
| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Reddit hastily replacing some of its long-time mods raises questions about the company prioritizing reopening protesting subreddits over finding the best people — Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules. — Did you know that improper food canning can lead to death?
More: 9to5Mac. Mastodon: @sarahgilbert@hci.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/TheoryOfReddit, r/ModCoord, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
TikTok opens its first European data center, in Ireland, after announcing the project in August 2020, and plans to finish the migration of user data by Q4 2024 — It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially …
More: The Guardian, BBC, and Sky News
| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
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