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June 24, 2024, 6:45 AM

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:

In preliminary findings, EU says Apple's anti-steering rules breached DMA; EU is also investigating whether Apple's developer fees comply with EU rules — Tech giant faces penalty of up to 10% of global annual revenue — Brussels has accused Apple of stifling competition on its app store …

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model with Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple — The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta's generative AI model into Apple Intelligence

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Financial Times:

Sources: the EU plans to charge Microsoft on suspicions of taking advantage of its market dominance this week — Also in this newsletter: How the European Commission wants to put G7 plans on Russia's frozen assets into action — This article is an onsite version of our Europe Express newsletter.

X: @florian4gamers

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

A look at Apple Intelligence, an umbrella for dozens of models running on-device or in carbon neutral data centers, and why Vision Pro is not getting it yet — An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud …

More: Benedict Evans. Threads: @sdw and @timothybucksf. Mastodon: @tolmasky@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Ron Miller

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR glasses, M4 Macs, reasons for limiting Apple Intelligence to the latest iPhones and delaying it in the EU — The Apple Vision Pro has gotten off to a slow start, spurring management to rethink its plans for the device.

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Forums: r/gadgets, r/technology, r/virtualreality, r/apple, and r/VisionPro

Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal:

Food delivery apps are contending with plunging orders and frustrated drivers, after raising fees in NYC and Seattle due to wage-increase laws for gig workers — Apps raised fees to offset pay increases in New York and Seattle, frustrating customers and workers

More: PYMNTS.com. Mastodon: @glennf@twit.social. X: @bgurley. LinkedIn: Melissa Schilling

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:

Sources: ByteDance is working with Broadcom on a US sanctions compliant 5nm AI chip, to be made by TSMC, with manufacturing not expected to start this year — China's ByteDance is working with U.S. chip designer Broadcom (AVGO.O) on developing an advanced AI processor …

More: Bloomberg, Wccftech, The Decoder, TrendForce Insights, WinBuzzer, and Benzinga

Financial Times:

Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO — Tensions between billionaire and his top executive have been rising as the platform's financial health has struggled

More: Business Insider, Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, and Reuters

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X: @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @xdaily, and @esghound. Forums: r/musked

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:

An interview with Open Source Initiative executive director Stefano Maffulli on what makes an AI open source, creating the Open Source AI Definition, and more — Meet the guy working to find “the definition” — The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood.

More: Both.org. X: @psawers. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA

Andrew Mills / Reuters:

Qatari telecom group Ooredoo: Nvidia agreed to deploy AI tech in Ooredoo datacenters in five Middle Eastern countries, Nvidia's first major launch in the region — Nvidia has signed a deal to deploy its artificial intelligence technology at data centres owned by Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo …

More: CIO.com, Al Bawaba, Capacity Media, Doha News | Qatar, SatellitePro ME, Benzinga, News.ng, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, Gulf News, Mobile Europe, Gulf Times, and Wccftech

Forums: r/NVDA_Stock and r/technology

New York Times:

Interviews with ~12 media executives, including Brian Roberts, John Malone, Barry Diller, and Ted Sarandos, about the future of streaming, bundling, ads, more — When the media titans Brian Roberts, John Malone and Barry Diller cast off in early February on Mr. Diller's 156-foot …

More: TechCrunch and Pocket-lint

LinkedIn: David Vogler and Robbie Kellman Baxter

Forums: r/cordcutters and r/wbdstock

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support for English only, a week after Google's Gemini app on Android debuted with support for 9 local languages — After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India.

More: Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Meta, TechCircle, MEDIANAMA, AIM, ANI News, The Week, The Indian Express, Financial Express, Gizmochina, Inc42 Media, YourStory, Business Standard, The Indian Express, Livemint, NewsBytes, and TechRadar

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Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:

Warner Bros. Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus

Natalie Korach / Vanity Fair:

Q&A with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on covering Trump's tariffs; their Odd Lots newsletter saw sign-ups jump 142% in April vs. March average

Julian Clover / Broadband TV News:

A group of current and former BBC World Service journalists warn that cuts to the international service risk fracturing “the core identity of the World Service”

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Politico:

Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent

More: Silicon Republic, WinBuzzer, Y Combinator, and R Street Institute

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:

Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, available to developers for building AI-enabled apps for Snapdragon X Elite devices

More: WinBuzzer and Qualcomm AI Hub. X: @qualcomm

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

A look at efforts by Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, and other companies to make their chatbots funnier and keep users engaged with them at home and at work

More: Financial Times and Decrypt

Amelia Tait / Wired:

A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge

More: The Overspill. X: @cjayanetti, @manonthe100, @nickw84, @jamesrbuk, @charlesarthur, @blockheartben, and @ameliargh

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Kevin Nguyen / The Verge:

Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media

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Bloomberg:

How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021

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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:

An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology director Anne Aaron about the company's cutting-edge codecs, preparing for livestreaming, and more

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