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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: The Keyword, Android Police, Hugging Face, and MarkTechPost
LinkedIn: Prem Ramaswami, Dambo Ren, Ali Arsanjani, PhD, Xiaopeng Li, and Barak Turovsky. Forums: r/singularity
| 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.
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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” …
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LinkedIn: Deborah Elms, Alex Kent, Matthew Hertz, Nick Coverdale, Richard Mojica, Pete Mento, and Laura Murphy
Forums: r/SBCGaming, r/law, r/JoeBiden, r/Economics, and r/news
| 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.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI's o1 models aren't a straightforward upgrade to GPT-4o, as they introduce some 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 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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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.| 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 …
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| CNBC: |
Trump says he has “absolutely no intention” of selling his Trump Media stock when the lockup period expires; DJT initially popped 25%+, then closed up about 12% — Shares of Trump Media shot up Friday, minutes after majority owner Donald Trump said he has no plans to sell his stake.
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| Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: |
Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X and Starlink after withdrawing ~$3.3M from the accounts to pay for fines imposed by the Supreme Court — - Transfer ends Starlink's banking freeze in the country — But social-media platform X remains banned by judicial order
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| Bloomberg: |
German prosecutors open a sexual harassment probe into SAP CTO Jürgen Müller, after SAP said he'd resign at the end of September due to “inappropriate” behavior — - Müller to step down this month due to ‘inappropriate’ behavior — SAP says it will fully cooperate with the investigation| 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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| 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.| 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| TechCrunch: |
A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation — Some shareholders are threatening to sue — TuSimple, once a buzzy startup considered a leader in self-driving trucks …
X: @mattrosoff
| Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried asks for a new trial in an appeal to the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals and directly attacks US District Judge Lewis Kaplan for alleged bias — Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.
More: CoinDesk, New York Times, The Block, Decrypt, CNN, CoinGape, Watcher Guru, and crypto.news
| 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 … | 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: @alecstapp, @alecstapp, @georgenhammond, @carnage4life, @yrechtman, @eleanorolcott, @scottlincicome, @tonytassell, @michaelxpettis, @hsu_steve, @pitdesi, @snowmaker, @eleanorolcott, @ruima, @pt, @stevesi, @pmarca, @kayjebelli, and @alecstapp
LinkedIn: Eric Rosenblum, Francis Bassolino, and Joseph Wang
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: SiliconANGLE and Reuters
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