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New York Times:
Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, Mark Cuban, Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, and 100+ other VCs pledge to vote for Kamala Harris and solicit donations for her campaign  —  The group, including Democratic donors such as Reid Hoffman and Vinod Khosla, has been organized under an effort called VCsForKamala.
CNBC:
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says the CrowdStrike-caused outage will cost the company $500M, after canceling 6,000+ flights, and Delta will seek damages  —  WATCH NOW  —  Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million.
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: the US plans to unveil a new rule next month to stop chipmaking equipment exports from some countries to China, exempting allies like the Netherlands  —  The Biden administration plans to unveil a new rule next month that will expand U.S. powers to stop exports of semiconductor …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says that a nine-hour outage on July 30, which disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was triggered by a DDoS attack  —  Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday that took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google rolls out online safety features to make removing explicit deepfakes from Search at scale easier and to prevent them from appearing high up in results  —  Google is rolling out new online safety features that make it easier to remove explicit deepfakes from Search at scale and prevent …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
After users reported that Meta's generative AI assistant incorrectly claimed the attempted Donald Trump assassination did not happen, Meta blames hallucinations  —  Meta's AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn't happen …
The Information:
Meta scraps its celebrity AI chatbot feature less than a year after launch and now expects people to use Meta's new AI Studio to customize their own AI avatars
Billy Steele / Engadget:
Spotify plans to expand the availability of lyrics for Spotify Free users in the “coming weeks”; paid subscribers could access unlimited lyrics since May 2024  —  The company capped access at three songs per month in May.  —  Spotify users who don't pay for a subscription …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
District of Columbia AG Brian Schwalb sues StubHub, alleging the company uses “deceptive, manipulative, and unfair practices” to advertise event fees to users  —  StubHub is facing a new lawsuit that accuses the ticketing service of hiding fees from customers until the very end of the purchasing process.
Jason Del Rey / Fortune:
Interviews with 24 current and former Amazon staff say Jeff Bezos' Amazon Way principles remain core under Andy Jassy but are now less universally agreed upon  —  When Amazon ordered most workers back to the office three days a week in February 2023, Pamela Hayter was not happy about the end of a popular pandemic-era arrangement.
More: The Verge.  Forums: Hacker News
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Source: TikTok was paying Microsoft ~$20M/mo. to use OpenAI's models in Azure OpenAI Service as of March, ~25% of the total revenue that service was generating  —  Microsoft has had success reselling OpenAI's artificial intelligence to its cloud customers, a core part of its plan to build a new multibillion-dollar profit machine.
Steve Smith / SlashGear:
Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra review: premium materials and build quality, and powerful Exynos processor, but too expensive, large, bulky, and only one size  —  - Premium materials and build quality - Significantly improved GPS tracking - New powerful Exynos processor - Excellent activity and sleep tracking
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Nothing unveils the Phone 2A Plus, offering the same 6.7-inch display as the 2A and a new MediaTek Dimensity 7350 Pro 5G SoC, available for $399 on August 7  —  Plus is often used in smartphone naming to delineate a larger model with a bigger screen, but that's not the case here.
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
An investigation finds 450+ illicit drug ads on Facebook and Instagram from March to June 2024, some showing pill piles or cocaine bricks; Meta removed the ads  —  Instagram and Facebook, already under federal investigation, continue to run ads for illegal drugs, including ads showing piles of pills and bricks of cocaine
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
A ransomware attack hits blood donation nonprofit OneBlood, which has asked over 250 hospitals in the US to activate their critical blood shortage protocols  —  A cyberattack has hit a blood-donation nonprofit that serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern US.
CNBC:
Nvidia shares jump 10%+ after Microsoft and AMD signaled no slowdown in the buildout of AI servers built around GPUs; Microsoft spent $19B on capex in Q4  —  Nvidia shares popped more than 11% Wednesday after remarks from top customer Microsoft and rival chipmaker AMD signaled no slowdown …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM revenue up 4% YoY, devices revenue down 11% YoY, overall gaming revenue up 44% YoY, and Xbox content and services revenue up 61% YoY  —  Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results.  The software maker made $64.7 billion …
More: Thurrott, Pure Xbox, and WinBuzzer
Threads: @tomwarrenuk.  X: @mitchyd and @tomwarren.  Forums: r/xbox
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft reports Q4 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 19% YoY to $28.52B, vs. $28.68B est., including Azure and other cloud services up 29% YoY
Microsoft:
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $64.7B, net income up 10% YoY to $22B, Office Commercial revenue up 12% YoY, and LinkedIn revenue up 10% YoY
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $5.84B, vs. $5.72B est., Data Center revenue up 115% to $2.8B, net income up 881% to $265M, Q3 revenue forecast above est.  —  Advanced Micro Devices reported second-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and showed continued growth …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company's MI300 AI chips did $1B+ in sales in Q2 and that the supply “will remain tight through 2025” despite supply chain improvements

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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Experts expect a surge in FOIA requests in Trump's second term, causing more delays and lawsuits; FOIA.gov: as of Q3 2024, the backlog of requests reached 222K+

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

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Chris Miller / Financial Times:
How US safeguards on the Microsoft-G42 deal, aiming to protect critical data center and AI infrastructure, could shape future international data center projects

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Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
Samsung reports Q2 revenue up 23.42% YoY to ~$53.45B, vs. ~$53.3B est., and operating profit up 1,458% YoY to ~$7.5B, as AI memory chip demand remains strong
Wall Street Journal:
How Elon Musk and X's division of labor stymied some of Linda Yaccarino's plans, like a Visa deal; internal figures show X had 250.8M DAUs in Q2, up 1.56% YoY
Bloomberg:
Sources: Intel may unveil plans as early as this week to cut thousands of jobs to reduce costs and fund a rebound from an earnings slump and market share losses
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025
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