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Financial Times:
An overview of California's AI safety bill SB 1047, which easily passed the state's legislature, as it awaits Governor Newsom's signature or veto before Sep. 30  —  California's Gavin Newsom has until September 30 to decide whether to sign legislation that will reach far beyond the state
Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News:
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold teardown: impressive repairability for a foldable, with a modular design that separates high mechanical wear parts like the USB-C port  —  The Pixel 9 Pro Fold has come a long way since the first generation Pixel Fold.  That's because unlike other foldable smartphones …
Bloomberg:
A profile of Chase Herro, who calls himself the “dirtbag of the internet” and sources say is the dealmaker behind Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial  —  'If you do this right, who f—ing cares if it goes to zero,' Chase Herro once said of crypto.
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
OpenAI should've stuck with the name Strawberry for o1, avoiding user confusion between models named 4o and o1, and helping humanize the tech  —  They're wrong, but there are other, more pressing product questions...  Well, what was coming in “the next couple of weeks” ended up being “the next couple of days” — here's Kylie Robison:
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
In reports dated August 9, Indian antitrust regulator CCI found that Amazon and Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers  —  An Indian antitrust investigation has found U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon (AMZN.O) and Walmart's (WMT.N) Flipkart violated local competition laws …
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI's $150B valuation in a $6.5B funding round hinges on whether the company can upend its corporate structure and remove a profit cap for investors  —  OpenAI's new financing round is expected to come in the form of convertible notes, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product  —  Apple and Google are showing how AI is really a feature in other products at this stage  —  AI's boosters have billed it as a technology …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Doctor Web: malware dubbed Android.Vo1d has infected ~1.3M TV boxes running OSes based on Android Open Source Project in almost 200 countries, forming a botnet  —  Infection corrals devices running AOSP-based firmware into a botnet.  —  Researchers still don't know the cause …
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's “monopoly”  —  - Employees concluded ad tech ‘monopoly’ hurt competition  — The social network eventually signed an agreement with Google
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
An EEOC analysis finds women made up 22.6% of US workers in high-tech roles in 2022, similar to the 22% in 2005, even as the number of lucrative jobs has soared  —  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair urges companies not to pull back from efforts to promote workplace diversity and inclusion.
Menaka Doshi / Bloomberg:
India's new M&A rule for deals exceeding ~$240M could create hurdles for startups that hope to be acquired in their early years to access funding and scale  —  Fears it could have a “chilling effect” on innovation. … Merger Control  —  A new anti-trust rule put into place this week …
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.

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From Mediagazer

Ryan Coleman / Entertainment Weekly:
Hulu faced technical difficulties during its live airing of the Oscars; in the Oscars' first hour, 34K+ users told Down Detector that the service wasn't working

Marc Tracy / New York Times:
No Other Land, about Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes, won Best Documentary at the 2025 Oscars, a rebuke after no distributor picked it up in the US

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox Nation has 2M to 2.5M subscribers, suggests a new stand-alone Fox streaming outlet would be aimed at “cord nevers” and “cord cutters”

More News

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
MicroStrategy stock jumped 8%+ on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said it purchased another $1.1B worth of bitcoin, taking its bitcoin holdings to $14.6B
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%
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

Earlier Picks

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
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”
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
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
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