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August 9, 2024, 11:45 AM

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Michael Kan / PCMag:

Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook — The chipmaker is delaying one of its biggest events, which was slated for September and expected to include more details about upcoming processors.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards” the DMA's “fundamental requirements”; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with a 15% junk fee — Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, The Register, GamesIndustry.biz, Android Headlines, MacRumors, MusicTech, iMore, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, Silicon Republic, Cult of Mac, iClarified, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews

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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

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The Guardian:

UK PM Keir Starmer says ministers will review the Online Safety Act, after London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was “not fit for purpose” following far-right riots — Move comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan said role of misinformation in unrest showed law was unfit for purpose

More: Financial Times, The Verge, and The Economic Times

Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/technology

Jay Peters / The Verge:

OpenAI now lets ChatGPT free users to generate up to two images per day using DALL-E 3, after launching DALL-E 3 to ChatGPT Plus subscribers in October 2023 — 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.

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X: @openai. Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity

Clothilde Goujard / Politico:

The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 — X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.

More: Tech Xplore, TechCrunch, The Cyber Express, Silicon Republic, PYMNTS.com, Computerworld, MEDIANAMA, and PhoneArena

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, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Windows Central, MarkTechPost, Financial Express, Android Headlines, Cointelegraph, Business Today, Neowin, and CoinGape

X: @aisafetymemes, @simonw, @joheidecke, @teknium1, @lindsmccallum, and @openai

LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Sebastian Mueller, and Sandro Gianella. Forums: r/OpenAI

Washington Post:

The Google monopoly ruling dealt a blow to one of Big Tech's main arguments against regulation: that 19th-century antitrust laws can't address tech innovation — The first big tech-sector anti-monopoly ruling in a generation challenges the idea that the internet era has outgrown U.S. antitrust law.

X: @econliberties

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Q&A with DOJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter on the US' Google win, being “overjoyed”, the appeal, Google's Apple deal, competition, market definitions, and more

More: The Information, American Prospect, and JD Supra

Threads: @daveleebbg. Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social. X: @modestproposal1

Financial Times:

Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation — Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques

More: Barron's Online, TipRanks Financial, and 24/7 Wall St.. X: @mandarkagade

Katie Roof / Bloomberg:

DevRev, which develops AI tools to improve the efficiency of employees on support, product, and engineering teams, raised $100M at a $1.15B valuation — - The corporate software developer raised $100 million — Nutanix co-founder Dheeraj Pandey co-founded and leads DevRev

Reuters:

Sources: Cisco plans a second round of layoffs this year, affecting as many or slightly more than the 4,000 laid off in February — Cisco (CSCO.O) will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus to higher-growth areas …

More: Bloomberg

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: PCMag, Engadget, Bloomberg, Dexerto, Chain Store Age, ChannelX, PYMNTS.com, esports.gg, and Affiverse. X: @banana3stocks

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:

A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants — The Chips Program Office is tasked with overseeing one of the most ambitious manufacturing comebacks in US history

More: Phoenix Business Journal. X: @mackhawk

Alan Crawford / Bloomberg:

A look at EU auto chipmakers' deepening engagement with China as sales suffer in the West; McKinsey: the automotive chips market will be worth $150B by 2030 — - Latest earnings show China's EV growth as a rare bright spot — Beijing's push for tech independence threatens foreign sales

More: Nikkei Asia and Livemint

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode — Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer …

X: @ioactive, @notolymp1a, and @a_greenberg. Forums: r/cybersecurity

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Matt Donnelly / Variety:

Sources describe rising tensions at Warner Bros. Pictures amid movie flops, with WBD CEO David Zaslav losing confidence in co-heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

After White House criticism, WHCA says comedian Amber Ruffin won't headline this year's annual dinner “to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division”

Brian Stelter / CNN:

A US district court judge issues a temporary restraining order halting the Trump administration's efforts to close Voice of America, in a lawsuit by VOA staff

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Sources: Chinese robotaxi company WeRide is seeking about $100M in a US initial public offering and around $200M to $300M in a concurrent private placement

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Reuters:

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bans X in the country for ten days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to promote hatred after Venezuela's disputed election

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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

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TASS:

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

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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

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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+

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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

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