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| Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: |
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks Starlink bank accounts in Brazil in a bid to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines; the court has also threatened to block X — - Starlink bank accounts blocked to pay for fines on X — Court threatens to block X for lack of Brazil representative
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X: @stf_oficial, @globalaffairs, @starlink, @elonmusk, @_felixsimon_, @esqueer_, @garymarcus, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @shellenberger, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @danielcarvalho_, @andst7, @ggreenwald, @gildovigor, @nickburns, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, @starlink, @shellenberger, @cb_doge, @ggreenwald, @brazilbrian, @alexandrosm, @ggreenwald, @prestonjbyrne, @shellenberger, @ggreenwald, @jgarzik, @prestonjbyrne, and @elonmusk. Forums: r/technews
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Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to join the funding round that would value OpenAI at over $100B — - Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
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X: @florian4gamers, @esyudkowsky, @luke_metro, @autismcapital, @mgsiegler, @markgurman, @aatilley, @joannastern, @ericjackson, @dinabass, @mgsiegler, @edzitron, and @keithdsouza
Forums: r/apple, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with and use the AI assistant for their emails, on Android and soon on iOS — Gmail users on Android devices can now chat directly with Google's AI assistant, Gemini, about their emails in the Gmail app.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group — Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” …
More: Google, Android Police, The Record, SC Media, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, The Register, The Cyber Express, The Hacker News, TechRadar, PCMag, Wired, Security, SecurityWeek, CyberScoop, SiliconANGLE, and Help Net Security
X: @bushidotoken, @arawnsley, @lorenzofb, @billyleonard, @jsrailton, @danwblack, and @charley_snyder_. LinkedIn: Matthias Frielingsdorf
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July — - Meta said earlier on Thursday adoption of its open source Llama models has also grown sharply.
More: 9to5Mac, The Information, Engadget, Thurrott, Reuters, TweakTown, The Verge, Neowin, VentureBeat, Cointelegraph, How-To Geek, Cryptopolitan, and The Crypto Times
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and evaluate their capabilities and risks — The US government announced agreements with leading artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic to help test and evaluate their upcoming technologies for safety.
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X: @sama, @g_co, @brianschatz, @deanwball, @ericgeller, @argleave, @jackclarksf, @thezvi, @foomagemindset, @ldrogen, and @bgurley
LinkedIn: Tayo Adesanya and Jonas Schuett
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M — Magic, an AI startup developing models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks …
More: Magic, SiliconANGLE, and Maginative
X: @ericsteinb, @manmeetsg, @_clem, @andrewcurran_, @polynoamial, @natfriedman, @rowancheung, @benbajarin, @teknium1, and @magicailabs
LinkedIn: Jill, Eric Steinberger, and Manmeet Gujral
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: PitchBook, Yahoo Finance, Maginative, and FinSMEs
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Dell Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $25.06B, vs. $24.53B est., servers and networking revenue up 80% to $7.76B, net income up 85% to $841M; DELL rose 3%+ after hours — Dell reported quarterly results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, powered by an 80% increase in server sales.
More: SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Bloomberg, Constellation Research, and Dell
X: @timsweeneyepic and @benbajarin
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10 to 12 with parental approval, and rolls out a new age rating system for worlds to help parents supervise kids — As part of the rollout, parents will have a significant amount of control over what experiences their preteens can access …
More: Meta, Mashable, Tech Times, Engadget, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, Music Ally, and Techopedia
Threads: @mattnavarra. Mastodon: @leedohm@techhub.social. X: @jeanprytyskacz. LinkedIn: Mike Westerhold. Forums: r/OculusQuest
| Alex Isenstadt / Politico: |
In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again — The Meta CEO earlier this week asserted that Biden administration tried to “pressure” the company to downplay content about Covid.
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Threads: @brendan.j.nyhan, @mac_ryan_, @katieharbath, @karaswisher, @edmundlee, @renee.diresta, and @shiraovide
| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024 — Meta's (META.O) Llama artificial intelligence models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and AT&T …
More: Meta, Engadget, Finextra, Forbes, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, and PYMNTS.com
X: @groqinc, @zoom, @ylecun, @jonathanross321, @reach_vb, @nvidiaaidev, @ns123abc, @stockmktnewz, and @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Ash Aggarwal, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Pierre Roux, and Prashant Ratanchandani
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler — This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.
More: PhoneArena, Android Headlines, iMore, Cult of Mac, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, iThinkDifferent, Six Colors, and AppleInsider
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Anti-piracy group ACE says it worked with Hanoi police to shutter Hanoi-based Fmovies and its affiliates, “the largest pirate streaming operation in the world” — The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, whose members include Netflix and Walt Disney Studios … | Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024 — Brussels probing possible failure by messaging platform to provide accurate data under new regulations
More: Engadget, BBC, New York Post, The Verge, Spyglass, Agence France-Presse, Cointelegraph, Security Affairs, and Bloomberg
| New York Times: |
Michael Lacey, co-founder of the classified ad site Backpage, gets five years in prison and a $3M fine for money laundering; two other executives get 10 years — Michael Lacey, 76, co-founded the website that became known for its ads for prostitution. He was convicted on a money laundering charge … | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around stablecoins, raised $40M led by Sequoia and Ribbit, taking its total funding to $58M — The crypto industry has long sought a “killer app” to bring digital assets into the mainstream. Recently, though, some are pointing … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and Tesla of defrauding investors by hyping Dogecoin and conducting insider trading — Elon Musk and his electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O) won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing them of defrauding investors … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Sources: truck sharing platform Fluid Truck, which raised $80M+, has ousted its sibling co-founders, including CEO James Eberhard, after losing tens of millions — The startup is in the hole for millions — Fluid Truck, a startup that was founded to disrupt the commercial vehicle rental industry … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $478.1M, vs. $464.1M est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2025 revenue above estimates; MDB jumps 13%+ after hours — MongoDB shares jumped as much as 16% in extended trading on Thursday after the database software maker reported healthy fiscal second-quarter earnings and pushed up full-year guidance.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and “nudify” websites have used sign-in infrastructure from Google, Apple, Discord, X, Patreon, or Line for months — Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found.
More: iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
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