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Google refreshes Android's logo and releases updates to its mobile app and services, including its “At a Glance” widget and its visual accessibility app Lookout — Google is releasing a grab bag of updates to its mobile apps and services, including an At a Glance Google Assistant widget …
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Threads: @google. X: @mishaalrahman, @android, @mishaalrahman, @backlon, @mishaalrahman, and @mishaalrahman
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says visionOS beta will include the App Store this fall and, by default, iPad and iPhone apps will be published automatically on the Vision Pro app store — As developers continue to work on bringing their apps to Vision Pro, Apple has shared a new update via its website with details on the Vision Pro's App Store.| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out a new Xbox dashboard that lets users stream Xbox gameplay one-way to anyone on Discord, a tool for reporting Xbox voice chat 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, PCMag, Press Start, BigTechWire, BGR, GameSpot, KitGuru, Engadget, Thurrott, IGN, Windows Central, Gameranx, TrueAchievements, Neowin, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Lifewire, Dexerto, Pure Xbox, and OnMSFT.com
X: @xboxwire and @tomwarren
Forums: r/xboxone and r/XboxSeriesX
| RT Watson / The Block: |
MetaMask says its customers in the US, UK, and parts of Europe can now convert ether for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function — - Company announces customers can now convert crypto for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function. — MetaMask customers that choose …
More: MetaMask, Decrypt, NFTgators, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Watcher Guru, Blockworks, and Cointelegraph
X: @metamask, @adamscochran, @autismcapital, @julianhosp, @danielgothits, @milesdeutscher, and @metamask. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple's A&R label Platoon — More than 80% of the music we listen to today is delivered over streaming, according to figures from last year.
More: BIS Records, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Macworld, CNBC, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, The Verge, Gramophone, iMore, iClarified, and 9to5Mac
X: @bis_records, @fafnerthekite, and @jaimeurquijo
| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Filing: SoftBank aims to raise up to $4.87B by offering 95.5M Arm shares priced around $47-$51, which would set a ~$52B valuation and mark 2023's biggest US IPO — 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.
More: The Information, Reuters, Renaissance Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Observer, TechCrunch, Nikkei Asia, Coinspeaker, RTÉ, Fast Company, Silicon Valley Business …, Android Headlines, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Crunchbase News, CNBC, Financial Times, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, and Tech Startups
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
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| Meg Kinnard / Associated Press: |
AGs in all 50 US states urge Congress to study how AI can be used to exploit kids, including via AI-made pornography, and pass legislation to guard against it — The top prosecutors in all 50 states are urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence can be used to exploit children through pornography … | Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: |
Sundar Pichai reflects on Google turning 25, says search is “still our biggest moonshot” and that AI will be the biggest tech shift “we see in our lifetimes” — Editor's note: Google will officially celebrate our 25th birthday later this month.
More: NPR, The Verge, and 9to5Google
X: @anshublog, @sundarpichai, @rlove, @jeffdean, @killedbygoogle, and @google
| 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.
More: Meta, TechCrunch, CNBC, BigTechWire, Thurrott, PCMag, Financial Times, Neowin, Ghacks, Gizmodo, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, London Evening Standard, and OnMSFT.com
X: @mgeist, @glenngabe, and @jakubkrupa
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Spotify's $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows aren't profitable, exclusives don't work, cutting staff and originals, 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
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Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @jamesvgrimaldi, @podcast411, and @epsilontheory
LinkedIn: Chris Erwin and David Harreveld
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: the FTC plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon later this month, after Amazon offered no concessions in an August meeting with FTC officials — E-commerce giant's lawyers offered no concessions in talks with agency officials last month — officials haven't offered concessions …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, The Verge, and Cord Cutters News
X: @adamkovac, @adamkovac, and @adamkovac
| Financial Times: |
Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as the EU's competition chief to run for a job at the EIB, and justice commissioner Didier Reynders will now assume the role — Belgian politician appointed while incumbent Margrethe Vestager targets top job at European Investment Bank
More: European Commission, Thurrott, Bloomberg, and Politico
X: @vestager, @satariano, @samuelstolton, @johnnyryan, and @verajourova
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Email: Genesis Global Trading plans to close its US-focused spot crypto trading platform on September 18 and all remaining open accounts by September 30's end — The subsidiary had escaped parent company Genesis Global's lending-induced bankruptcy. — Genesis' U.S.-focused spot crypto trading business … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Harmonya, which offers software to help retail and consumer packaged goods companies decipher their product data, raised a $20M Series A led by Bright Pixel — Like other companies, retailers and consumer packaged goods companies have a lot of data accumulated about their products and consumers.
More: CTech, Jerusalem Post, SiliconANGLE, and FinSMEs
| 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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X: @mls_buzz, @tvanswerman, @rameeztase, @pitts_man, @newley, and @joepompliano. LinkedIn: Rameez Tase
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth profile of OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, CTO Mira Murati, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones to an AGI that is safe for humanity — 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: Cryptopolitan and Longreads
X: @katiedrumm, @scottnover, @austincarr, and @stevenlevy
Forums: r/singularity and r/artificial
| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Intel and Tower Semiconductor say the Israeli contract chipmaker plans to invest $300M in Intel's New Mexico factory, after their $5.4B deal collapsed in August — Intel (INTC.O) will offer foundry services to Tower Semiconductor (TSEM.TA) in a new deal that will see the Israeli contract …
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