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Sources: Apple plans a Mac mini in 2024 with M4 and M4 Pro options that is less than half the size of the current mini, its first major design change since 2010 — - It's the first major design change to Mac mini since Jobs era — Entire Mac line to get updated with AI-focused M4 processors
More: Dexerto, MacRumors, PCMag, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, iMore, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNET, iClarified, Engadget, Macworld, Supercharged, The Apple Post, BGR, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, Financial Express, Trusted Reviews, The Verge, TechRadar, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Lifewire, Appleosophy, Digital Trends, Thurrott, MacDailyNews, Notebookcheck, Six Colors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Threads: @danack. X: @appltrack, @brandonbutch, @lukemiani, @scottperdue, @andrew_osu, @tomwarren, @jonfingas, @vadimyuryev, @sadlyitsbradley, and @markgurman
Forums: r/macmini, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims — - The World Federation of Advertisers is ‘discontinuing’ the activities of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
More: New York Times, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, checkmyads.org, Gizmodo, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Mashable, New York Post, Fortune, The Verge, Engadget, Adweek, Vox, CNBC, Reclaim The Net, Quartz, and PC Gamer
Threads: @kateaconger, @r.gilmore, @davechensky, @daveleebbg, @kbode, @mac_ryan_, @crumbler, @renee.diresta, @mac_ryan_, @karaswisher, and @catthekin. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
X: @lindayax and @catthekin
LinkedIn: Marc Zander, Sarah Kay Wiley, Michael Follett, Arielle Garcia, and Ruben Schreurs
Forums: r/law, r/stupidpol, r/Twitter, r/law, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and Ars OpenForum
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards the fundamental requirements” of EU's DMA; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with “junk fees” — Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, iClarified, and MacDailyNews
Bluesky: @blowdart.me. X: @timsweeneyepic, @bzamayo, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @mzunigap, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @lewis_crofts, and @lewis_crofts. Forums: r/apple
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts new rules and fees for apps in the EU that link to the web for purchases, including allowing links to any website, and removes other restrictions — Following the EU ruling in June that said Apple's App Store anti-steering policies are officially in breach of the Digital Markets Act, Apple is announcing changes.
More: Apple Developer, MacRumors, Reuters, TechCrunch, BGR, Pixel Envy, Thurrott, Spyglass, Macworld, Cult of Mac, PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, Neowin, mjtsai.com, and iClarified
X: @eric_seufert, @mysk_co, @mgsiegler, @mgsiegler, @ballmatthew, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, and @bzamayo. Forums: r/apple
| Josh Self / Politics.co.uk: |
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views — Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …
More: Politico, Wired, BBC, Mashable, Reuters, The Guardian, The Mirror, Fortune, Times of India, Tech.eu, The Independent, and The Daily Beast
Threads: @daveleebbg. Mastodon: @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot, @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot, and @JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social
X: @josh_self_, @telegraph, @josh_self_, @jackbailey2, @philmoorhouse76, @drjennings, @albertonardelli, @jakubkrupa, @gerryhassan, @sundersays, @mattzeitlin, @jonathanpienews, @mij_europe, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, and @jimmysecuk
Forums: r/LabourUK and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Researchers: 50 false or misleading claims about the US election posted on X in 2024 by Elon Musk have generated nearly 1.2B views and none had a Community Note — The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate said that Musk's debunked claims are spreading widely and do not appear … | Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
The UK CMA opens a formal merger inquiry into Amazon's Anthropic investment after getting “sufficient information” about the deal; Amazon is “disappointed” — CMA to escalate matter to the first phase after seeking views on tech giant's investment in the AI start-up
More: GOV.UK, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNBC, CIO Dive, New York Times, The Information, SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, Thurrott, ComputerWeekly.com, Reuters, Euractiv, Cryptopolitan, Proactive, CRN, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, NewsBytes, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Republic, Maginative, WinBuzzer, and Bloomberg
X: @auerdirk, @kayjebelli, and @laz_radic
| Wired: |
OpenAI reveals details of GPT-4o's safety testing, including concerns that its anthropomorphic voice may make some users emotionally attached to their chatbot — The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.
More: OpenAI, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, The Verge, Neowin, and CoinGape
X: @lindsmccallum, @simonw, @joheidecke, @openai, and @teknium1. LinkedIn: Sandro Gianella. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with DOJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter on the US' Google win, the Apple deal, competition, being “overjoyed”, Google's appeal, market definitions, and more — AAG Jonathan Kanter says the Google monopoly verdict belongs on the ‘Mount Rushmore of antitrust.’| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI rolls out the ability for ChatGPT free users to create up to two images per day with DALL-E 3, after launching DALL-E 3 to Plus subscribers in October — OpenAI is going to let users of ChatGPT's free tier make up to two images per day with its DALL-E 3 model, the company announced on Thursday.| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell government cloud and AI tools, such as GPT-4, to US defense and intel agencies; Palantir plans to add its tools to Azure — Microsoft Corp. and Palantir Technologies Inc. are combining their government cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools …
More: Microsoft, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, FedScoop, Maginative, Quartz, CNBC, Engadget, Neowin, Nextgov/FCW, Reuters, The Verge, Constellation Research, and Barron's Online
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google's DeepMind Robotics team shows a table tennis robot that it says is a “solidly amateur human-level player” when pitted against a human — Sports have long served as an important test for robots. The best-known example of the phenomenon may be the annual RoboCup soccer competition …
More: arXiv.org, How-To Geek, Ars Technica, The Decoder, Popular Science, and AIM. X: @googledeepmind
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Putin signs a law legalizing cryptocurrency mining in Russia; only Russian legal entities and individuals included in a register will have the right to mine — Only Russian legal entities and individual entrepreneurs included in a register will have the right to mine
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 1% YoY to $1.22B, vs. $1.25B est., net revenue up 4%, and expects sequential growth in net bookings in FY 2026 and FY 2027 — Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO.O) said on Thursday it expects to see sequential growth in its net bookings in fiscals 2026 and 2027 … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Hugging Face acquires XetHub, a collaboration platform started by ex-Apple employees who raised $7.5M to help developers work with and build large-scale models — Purchased for an undisclosed sum, XetHub is staffed by a number of former Apple employees. Hugging Face thinks …
More: Hugging Face, SiliconANGLE, Seattle Business Journal, VentureBeat, GeekWire, and AIM
X: @mattmcilwain, @aymericroucher, @julien_c, and @jeffboudier
LinkedIn: Ajit Banerjee, Brigitte Tousignant, Jeff Boudier, Aymeric Roucher, Matt McIlwain, and Rajat Arya. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Japanese cybersecurity company Trend Micro, which has a market value of about $6.5B, is exploring a sale after attracting buyout interest — Trend Micro (4704.T), a Japanese cybersecurity firm with a market value of about 950 billion yen ($6.5 billion), is exploring a sale …
More: Bloomberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: enterprise AI company Glean is in advanced talks to raise $250M led by DST Global at a $4.5B valuation, about double its valuation from February 2024 — The $250 million investment would double the company's valuation from six months ago, a sign of continued enthusiasm for generative AI
More: PYMNTS.com
| Financial Times: |
Similarweb: active UK Telegram users hit 3.1M on July 29 and 3.7M on July 30 after a stabbing, as rioters used chat apps, up from a ~2.7M average in early 2024 — Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups
More: PCMag, Ofcom, Wired, Tech Against Terrorism, Bloomberg, The Hill, The Verge, The Independent, NPR, and TechCrunch
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @shayan86. LinkedIn: Jessica Marcus, Foaad Haghighi, and Bimpe Archer
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
TikTok and Pinterest partner with Amazon to let users buy items from Amazon ads without leaving the social media apps — Amazon's e-commerce business is huge but slow-growing, while shopping on social media has been taking off. That's prompted Amazon to look for ways to team up with popular social media apps.
More: Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, esports.gg, and Affiverse
| CJ Fairfield / CRN: |
Tampa-based Rewst, which provides robotic process automation services, raised a $45M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $104M — 'I don't think we're ever done when it comes to improving the platform. I think it can continue to get better year over year … | AlleyWatch: |
NYC-based Cents, which provides business management and payments services for the laundry industry, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $77M+ — The garment care market is substantial, with an annual value of approximately $60B. Despite this large addressable market …
More: FinSMEs, Commercial Observer, Cents, Axios, Tech Funding News, and VC News Daily
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoundHound acquires Amelia, which makes an AI agent that businesses can customize for internal or customer use, for $80M; PitchBook: Amelia raised $189M+ — SoundHound, an AI company that makes voice interface tech used by car companies, restaurants and tech firms, is doubling …
More: SoundHound, FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, and Benzinga
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