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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
More: Reuters, New York Times, NBC News, Engadget, Bloomberg, Axios, Quartz, Techdirt, Associated Press, CNBC, Reuters, Twitchy, Times of India, Reuters, KAAL-TV, Folha de S.Paulo, Brasil de Fato, The Times, Americas Quarterly, The Brazilian Report, Türkiye Today, Fortune, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, One America News Network, Reclaim The Net, Semafor, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, Vavuska's pLace, PhoneArena, Al Jazeera, TechIssuesToday.com, The National Pulse, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Tech Xplore
X: @stf_oficial, @starlink, @globalaffairs, @shellenberger, @gildovigor, @shellenberger, @alexandrosm, @elonmusk, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, @starlink, @jgarzik, @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald, @prestonjbyrne, @prestonjbyrne, @nickburns, @brazilbrian, @ggreenwald, @cb_doge, @ggreenwald, @elonmusk, @andst7, @elonmusk, @danielcarvalho_, @elonmusk, and @elonmusk. Forums: r/technews
| Bloomberg: |
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
More: The Information, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Upside, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, New York Times, Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, CRN, Business Insider, The Verge, CNBC, Quartz, Financial Times, New York Times, New York Post, AppleInsider, Invezz, iThinkDifferent, Cointelegraph, Channel NewsAsia, Mashable, COINOTAG NEWS, The Wrap, Crunchbase News, Wall Street Pit, Barron's Online, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Tech Startups, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Proactive, Spyglass, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Neowin, Blockonomi, Silicon Republic, The Decoder, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, iClarified, MacDailyNews, and Wall Street Journal
Threads: @crumbler. Bluesky: @radiobeartime.com. X: @autismcapital, @edzitron, @markgurman, @mgsiegler, @aatilley, @joannastern, @ericjackson, @dinabass, and @keithdsouza
Forums: r/apple, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| 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, SC Media, The Record, Ars Technica, The Register, BleepingComputer, The Cyber Express, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, The Hacker News, Security, PCMag, CyberScoop, Wired, SecurityWeek, and Help Net Security
X: @bushidotoken, @arawnsley, @lorenzofb, @billyleonard, @jsrailton, @danwblack, and @charley_snyder_. LinkedIn: Matthias Frielingsdorf
| 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, @foomagemindset, @ldrogen, and @bgurley
LinkedIn: Tayo Adesanya and Jonas Schuett
| 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: Engadget, The Information, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Verge, Neowin, How-To Geek, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, Thurrott, and Cryptopolitan
| 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
| 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 jumps 7%+ after hours — Dell reported quarterly results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, powered by an 80% increase in server sales.| 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
Bluesky: @bencollins.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @karlbode.bsky.social, and @karlbode.bsky.social
X: @conorforaz, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, @jdvance, and @politicoalex. Forums: r/technology
| 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: Android Headlines, PhoneArena, iThinkDifferent, iMore, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, and Six Colors
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| 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, Tech Times, ReadWrite, Mashable, Engadget, Music Ally, TechCrunch, and Techopedia
Threads: @mattnavarra. Mastodon: @leedohm@techhub.social. X: @jeanprytyskacz. LinkedIn: Mike Westerhold. Forums: r/OculusQuest
| 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 … | 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, PYMNTS.com, and BetaNews
X: @ns123abc, @jonathanross321, @reach_vb, @groqinc, @zoom, @nvidiaaidev, @ylecun, @stockmktnewz, and @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Ash Aggarwal, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Pierre Roux, and Prashant Ratanchandani
| 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, The Verge, New York Post, BBC, Agence France-Presse, Spyglass, 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 … | 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 … | 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
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei reports Q2 revenue up 33.7% YoY to ~$33.6B, rising for the sixth straight quarter, and net profit down 18.6% YoY to ~$5B, ahead of the Mate 70's launch — - IPhone has fallen from China's top five in smartphone ranking — Shenzhen-based company also chasing EV software demand
More: Reuters, Huawei, PhoneArena, Light Reading, and Huawei Central
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 2019 — Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Affirm closed up ~32% on Thursday, its best day in almost three years and its third-biggest rally since Affirm's January 2021 IPO, after beating estimates in Q4 — Affirm shares soared nearly 32% on Thursday, notching their best day in almost three years, after the provider of buy now …
More: The Information, Benzinga, and Reuters
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