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The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4 — Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant's 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Sony announces the PS5 Pro, offering a better GPU and faster memory for up to 45% faster game rendering, but no disc drive, available from November 7 for $700 — In a CNET exclusive, I visited Sony's PlayStation headquarters to play the all-new PS5 Pro and ask Sony executives what makes this midcycle upgrade different.
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| Washington Post: |
Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls — The X billionaire's false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services — - EU judges uphold lower court ruling in shopping case — Google was accused by EU of abusing its dominant position
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI aims to release Strawberry, its reasoning-focused AI, within two weeks as a model that users can pick in ChatGPT; the model isn't yet multimodal — Strawberry, OpenAI's reasoning-focused artificial intelligence, is coming sooner than we thought.| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised $260M+ at a $4.6B valuation, after raising $200M+ at $2.2B in February 2024 — Glean was founded by former Google engineers in 2019 as a search engine for companies, helping employees access internal data.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A total of 42 state and territory AGs call on Congress to pass legislation requiring warning labels on social networks that warn of social media's risks to kids — A coalition of 42 state and territory attorneys general is calling on Congress to pass regulation requiring warning labels on social media platforms.
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing — Microsoft boosts error correction on Quantinuum machine, parters with Atom Computing. — On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series … | Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI: |
Waymo: its cars in Phoenix and SF had 48% fewer crashes/mile than humans and 73% fewer injury-causing ones; humans rear-ended Waymos in 16 of the 23 worst ones — I took a careful look at Waymo's latest crash data. … On a Friday evening last November, police chased a silver sedan across the San Francisco Bay Bridge.| Vanity Fair: |
An excerpt from the book “Character Limit” on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction — In an excerpt from their new book, Character Limit, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac detail how Musk's “goons” … | The Verge: |
iPhone 16 Pro, Pro Max hands-on: despite larger displays, they don't feel that much bigger, helped by thin bezels; the Camera Control button is ultrasensitive — I just spent a few minutes with the new iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, which feature bigger displays with thinner bezels, revamped cameras …
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Oracle shares are up 50%+ YTD, well outpacing the Nasdaq's 14% rise, as the 47-year-old company becomes an attractive cloud-computing provider for AI developers — Long-stagnant stock is up 34% thanks to its neutral status in the booming market for AI computing power
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How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money on Elon Musk's businesses, including investing $4B+, more than half of his firm Vy Capital's reported assets — Venture capitalist John Hering bet his career, time and money on Musk enterprises, seeking a favored seat beside the world's richest man| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Neat, which helps other companies sell insurance products to their own customers, raised a €50M Series A, with ~60% in equity and the rest in debt — It's not every day that you hear about a large funding round for a French startup in the current funding environment.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Seoul police arrest two former Samsung officials on suspicion of stealing tech worth $3.2B+ to build a chipmaking plant in China, after halting the venture — - Police accuse two former execs of stealing trade secrets — They allegedly set up a JV with local government officials
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Huawei unveils the Mate XT trifold phone with a screen that folds into 6.4" or 7.9" and unfolds into 10.2", available in China from September 20 for $2,800+ — BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Huawei said Tuesday its trifold smartphone will start at the equivalent of more than $2,800.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming September 20 — At any Apple event, new AirPods are never a given. The earbuds have been around nearly as long as the Apple Watch …
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the prerelease software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking scam emails as priority, and more — The new iPhone is all about artificial intelligence. But it does an uncomfortable amount of making things up in tests of its prerelease software.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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