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The White House plans to curb the “overuse and abuse” of the de minimis loophole used by Shein and Temu, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs — The Biden administration announced new steps on Friday to curtail what it calls the “overuse and abuse” …
More: The White House, PYMNTS.com, Investor's Business Daily, U.S. Department of Commerce, The Information, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, New York Times, and Chain Store Age
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Forums: r/news and r/Economics
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple plans to allow alt app stores and browser engines on iPads in the EU with iPadOS 18 on September 16, after the EU added iPadOS to the DMA in April 2024 — It was a matter of time, but Apple is going to allow third-party app stores on the iPad starting next week, on September 16.| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning” — OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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LinkedIn: Matt Kroll and Greg Yeutter
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| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts DataGemma models that use real world data from Google-created Data Commons to reduce hallucinations in queries revolving around statistical data — Google is expanding its AI model family while addressing some of the biggest issues in the domain.
More: Android Police, The Keyword, Hugging Face, and MarkTechPost
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
All 25 staff of Annapurna's gaming division resigned in September after CEO Megan Ellison pulled out of talks with President Nathan Gary to spin off the unit — Megan Ellison-led firm sees staffers quit after spinoff talks fail. — The entire staff of Annapurna Interactive …
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| Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica: |
Across two experiments with 2,190 American conspiracy theorists, dialogues with GPT-4 Turbo reduced their belief in their chosen conspiracy by ~20% on average — Co-author Gordon Pennycook: “The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies.” — Belief in conspiracy theories is rampant …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo and Uber plan to expand their two-year robotaxi partnership in Phoenix, Arizona, to Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, starting in early 2025 — Waymo and Uber — bitter enemies turned awkwardly polite work friends — announced they were expanding their two-year robotaxi partnership …
More: Uber, Waymo, Investor's Business Daily, PCMag, Engadget, The Hill, UPI, TechCrunch, and CNBC
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Meta restarts training its AI systems on UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts, having “incorporated regulatory feedback” to be “even more transparent” — Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.
More: Meta, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, London Evening Standard, Telegraph, The Verge, PhoneArena, and PCMag. LinkedIn: Marco Pancini
| Renju Jose / Reuters: |
Elon Musk calls Australia's government “fascists” after it unveiled a bill to fine online platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for enabling misinformation — Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, on Friday called Australia's centre-left government “fascists” …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify begins piloting parent-managed accounts for kids under 13 on family plans in select markets, including Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden — Following the moves of other tech giants, Spotify announced on Friday it's introducing in-app parental controls in the form of “managed accounts” for listeners under the age of 13.| Karen Hao / The Atlantic: |
Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, Chevron, and others to find and develop oil and gas reserves while publicly committing to reduce emissions — Microsoft executives have been thinking lately about the end of the world. In a white paper published late last year, Brad Smith …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the European Commission is poised to conclude X does not fall under its Digital Markets Act, after a probe found X's impact on EU markets is too small — - X to avoid Digital Markets Act's list of dos and don'ts — Platform still faces a tough time from EU over disinformation| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike, Broadcom, Sophos, Trend Micro, and other security vendors operate outside of the kernel — Microsoft is announcing plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike and other security vendors operate outside of the Windows kernel.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources paint a bleak picture for startup founders in China; IT Juzi report: only 1,202 startups were founded in the country in 2023 compared to 51,302 in 2018 — Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation
X: @carnage4life, @alecstapp, @georgenhammond, @pmarca, @kayjebelli, @eleanorolcott, @alecstapp, @ruima, @yrechtman, @eleanorolcott, @pt, @scottlincicome, @stevesi, @tonytassell, @michaelxpettis, @hsu_steve, @alecstapp, @snowmaker, and @pitdesi. LinkedIn: Francis Bassolino
Forums: r/Economics and r/China
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to sell existing shares, valuing it at $23B, up from $19.1B in May 2024; shareholders, such as employees, may sell $400M to $500M — - Existing shareholders may sell up to $500 million: sources — Latest valuation eclipses the $19.1 billion from May round
More: Reuters
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
In a provisional ruling, the CMA says Vodafone and Three's planned $19B merger could lead to higher prices, diminished service, and reduced investment in the UK — The U.K.'s antitrust regulator has delivered its provisional ruling in a longstanding battle to combine two of the country's major telecommunication operators.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Apple files to drop its NSO suit, citing Israeli government's alleged seizure of NSO files, and saying Apple's court disclosures may aid NSO and other hackers — iPhone maker says factors including the Israeli government's alleged seizure of files from the maker of Pegasus surveillance app undermine the suit's potential.
More: 9to5Mac
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: 23andMe will pay $30M to settle a lawsuit for failing to protect the privacy of 6.9M customers whose personal info was exposed in a 2023 data breach — 23andMe (ME.O) will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company … | Wall Street Journal: |
United Airlines plans to start testing Starlink internet service in early 2025, with the first passenger flights likely equipped with free Wi-Fi later in 2025 — Airlines see satellites providing faster, more consistent connections — Elon Musk may soon provide the Wi-Fi on your United flight.
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| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Second Front, which helps companies deploy software in sensitive government networks, raised a $75M Series C led by Salesforce, sources say at a $750M valuation — Defense tech startup Second Front, which gives companies a quick on-ramp to deploying software within sensitive government networks … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
A profile of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, which aims to create “spatial intelligence” in AI and has raised $230M from a16z and others, reportedly at a $1B valuation — Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is unveiling a startup that aims to teach AI systems deep knowledge of physical reality.Sponsor Posts
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