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CNBC:
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” …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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:
OpenAI claims that in a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, o1 correctly solved 83.3% of the problems, while GPT-4o solved only 13.4%
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
OpenAI's o1 System Card: “medium” rating for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear weapon risk, and it sometimes manipulated task data to fake alignment
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” …
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 …
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
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.
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.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The White House says Adobe, Cohere, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Common Crawl made voluntary commitments to combat nonconsensual image deepfakes and CSAM  —  The White House has announced that several major AI vendors, including OpenAI and Microsoft, have committed to taking steps …
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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From Mediagazer

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sunday Express Editor David Wooding becomes the latest top Reach executive to leave, as the Express moves to create a seven-day operation amid Reach layoffs

Max Tani / Semafor:
Q&A with Emily Sundberg, whose Feed Me newsletter on business and culture has over 50K subscribers and ranks sixth on Substack's paid leaderboard

Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
HarperCollins confirms it has an agreement with an AI company to train AI models on some nonfiction books, giving authors the choice to opt in

More News

Matt Burgess / Wired:
Researchers detail GAZEploit, a now-fixed Apple Vision Pro vulnerability that let hackers determine which key a user is typing based on the user's eye movement
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Adobe reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.41B, vs. $5.37B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% YoY to $4B, and Q4 revenue guidance below est.; ADBE drops 9%+

Earlier Picks

Ina Fried / Axios:
Salesforce rolls out Agentforce, a suite of AI agents that handle tasks in sales, marketing, commerce, and customer service, starting at $2 per conversation
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
At an Acquired podcast event, Mark Zuckerberg said his biggest career mistake was taking too much ownership for issues out of Meta's control
Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
Nick Clegg says Elon Musk turned X into “a sort of one man, sort of hyper-partisan and ideological hobby horse”, contrasting Meta's content moderation with X's
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify is trying to entice video-oriented creators to distribute shows on the platform in addition to YouTube, sometimes offering them seven figures
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Gemini Live to free users with Android devices set to English, following its release to Gemini Advanced subscribers last month
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
The FDA approves the Hearing Aid Feature in Apple's AirPods Pro 2, calling it the “first over-the-counter hearing aid software device”
Richard Speed / The Register:
Transport for London confirms ~5,000 customers' bank data may have been exposed in an ongoing cyber incident and pulls a lot of its IT infrastructure offline
Teresa Xie / Bloomberg:
eToro USA agrees to pay $1.5M and limit US user trading to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether to settle SEC allegations that it operated as an unregistered broker
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