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Qualcomm says Apple extended its modem deal for three more years, covering “smartphone launches in 2024, 2025, and 2026”; the prior deal was set to end in 2023 — - Pact between the companies had been scheduled to end this year — The iPhone maker has been trying to create its own components
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X: @fosspatents, @saschasegan, @saschasegan, @bzamayo, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
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WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, offering a clue for how Meta plans to comply with the EU's DMA interoperability rules — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.8.
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Sources: seeking to shore up its finances, Embracer is considering options for US-based Borderlands developer Gearbox, acquired in a $1.4B deal in February 2021 — Embracer (EMBRACb.ST) is considering options for its U.S. game developer Gearbox Entertainment including a sale …
More: Game Developer, The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Neowin, KitGuru, Kotaku, Wccftech, Eurogamer.net, Gameranx, GameSpot, Video Games Chronicle, GamingBolt, IGN, and PC Games Insider. Forums: r/Games
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Filing: Instacart aims to raise up to $616M in its IPO at an up to $7.73B valuation and prices shares at $26 to $28; the listing is expected later this month — Instacart is aiming for a valuation of up to $7.73 billion, the grocery delivery company said on Monday, in its march toward …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Information, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Information, NBC 7 San Diego, PYMNTS.com, Business Today, and Financial Times
Threads: @carnage4life. X: @buccocapital, @iankar_, @abarrallen, @asanwal, @rakeshlobster, @asanwal, and @thewealthhunter
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft ends software support for the original Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates — On its third birthday, the original Surface Duo is no longer supported by Microsoft. — What you need to know
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A competition between Wharton MBA students and ChatGPT that judges generating ideas for a new product or service finds that 35 of the top 40 came from ChatGPT — We put humans and AI to the test. The results weren't even close. — How good is AI in generating new ideas?| Gillian Tett / Financial Times: |
An interview with Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, the new biography, why Musk agreed, the Twitter acquisition, Musk being “driven by demons”, surprises, and more — The writer tells Gillian Tett what he learnt during two years spent with ‘total access’ to the tech tycoon
More: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @willoremus. Mastodon: @bruno_j_navarro …. X: @willoremus, @bgrueskin, @emmavj, @nancylevine, and @carlquintanilla
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase emails its customers in India to say the company plans to cease operations in the country from September 25, advising users to withdraw remaining funds — Coinbase said Monday that it has disabled new user sign-up on its exchange product in India, but remains committed to the country …
More: Blockworks, Cointelegraph, The Economic Times, Protos, CCN.com, Crypto Daily, TechCircle, Tech in Asia, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, and Watcher Guru. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta plans to begin training a new LLM in Q1 2024 on its own infrastructure and hopes the model will be roughly as capable as OpenAI's GPT-4 — Parent of Facebook and Instagram wants artificial-intelligence system to be as capable as OpenAI's most advanced model — Platforms is setting its sights on OpenAI.
More: Gizmodo, Silicon Valley Business …, PYMNTS.com, Insider, The Verge, Coinspeaker, TechStartups, WinBuzzer, NBC 7 San Diego, Ghacks, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, Analytics Insight, Watcher Guru, Livemint, BigTechWire, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, and TheSequence
Forums: r/MachineLearning, r/LocalLLaMA, r/technology, and r/singularity
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
FTX sues cross-chain swap protocol builder LayerZero Labs, seeking to undo a $45M deal made four days before FTX filed for bankruptcy and a $40M cash withdrawal — - The FTX estate is suing blockchain infrastructure company LayerZero Labs in an attempt to undo a $45M deal made in the midst of its collapse.
More: Unchained Crypto, Bitcoin News, Crypto Daily, CCN.com, Forkast, Cryptopolitan, The Block, Cointelegraph, CoinJournal, and crypto.news
X: @primordialaa, @arthur_0x, and @freddieraynolds
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users suggests X is throttling posts linking to the NYT, with “weekly average shares per article” down ~75% from July's peak — X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users' access to The New York Times.
More: The Verge. Threads: @carnage4life, @drewharwell, and @goldengateblond. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social
X: @tomcoates and @minimaxir
Forums: r/technology, r/Twitter, r/elonmusk, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Adrienne So / Wired: |
Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) review: big, beautiful screen, tough, durable, and incredible satellite support, but no solar charging, pricey, and kind of embarrassing — Garmin's top-of-the-line outdoor watch is a great alternative to the Apple Watch Ultra, especially if you don't have an iPhone.Sponsor Posts
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