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Jake Evans / ABC:
Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law  —  In short:  —  Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in December 2022, says it's been acquired by PE firm K1 and names a new CEO, after filing to delist its shares from the NYSE  —  MariaDB's short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API-serving platforms Le Chat and Le Platforme “soon”  —  French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text.
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Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, noting that Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated image of her “endorsing” him prompted her to reveal her plans  —  Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight.  If you haven't already, now is a great time to do your research …
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Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams  —  The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWrite's 70B-parameter AI model, says he “got ahead” of himself but doesn't explain why his model underperformed  —  Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI, also known as its signature AI assistant writing product HyperWrite …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sergey Brin says he works at Google “pretty much every day” and that recent AI algorithmic improvements are “outpacing the increased compute” put into models  —  Google co-founder and ex-Alphabet president Sergey Brin said he's back working at Google “pretty much every day” …
Brianna Sacks / Washington Post:
An analysis finds 40+ examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during 20+ US wildfires since June 2024; Meta says it is “investigating this issue”  —  The Post has collected more than 40 examples of Facebook removing emergency-related posts during at least 20 wildfires since June.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
On second day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp exec testified as a government witness, saying Google held publishers “hostage”  —  Google's tool that lets publishers sell ad space on their websites is ubiquitous, but that's largely a testament …
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Chainalysis: payments in Singapore using stablecoins reached a record high of almost $1B in Q2, led by transactions at merchant outlets  —  - Digital-asset consultancy Chainalysis releases a crypto study  — Stablecoin usage remains a small fraction of overall payments

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From Mediagazer

A.G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
A.G. Sulzberger says the role of a free press is under attack, and that the anti-press playbook used in eroding democracies is now being deployed in the US

Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
The EU General Court rules the EU should not have denied an NYT journalist's request for text messages between Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The BBC plans to expand its Local Democracy Reporting Service beyond local authorities and “dramatically” increase BBC's presence on YouTube and TikTok

More News

Hans Peter Brondmo / Wired:
The former CEO of Everyday Robotics, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a body
Joe Mayes / Bloomberg:
AWS plans to spend £8B in the UK to grow its cloud business, expecting to support up to 14,000 jobs and contribute £14B to the UK GDP between 2024 and 2028
Justine Calma / The Verge:
Google plans to buy carbon removal credits from direct air capture provider Holocene for $100 per ton, far below current prices, for delivery by the early 2030s

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
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
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