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| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google tells Canada's government it will remove Canadian news links from Search, News, and Discover and close Google News Showcase when Bill C-18 takes effect — President of Global Affairs, Google & Alphabet … The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 …
More: CTV News, Fortune, BBC, The Keyword, NPR, Michael Geist, The Hill, Thurrott, Toronto Star, NBC News, Globe and Mail, Gizmodo, The Guardian, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup, 9to5Google, The Hollywood Reporter, PCMag, BBC, Engadget, Android Central, The Verge, and Neowin
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Forums: Hacker News, r/canada, r/CanadianConservative, and r/worldnews
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Inflection AI, a startup led by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman that released its Pi chatbot in May 2023, raised $1.3B, a source says at a $4B valuation — Backed by Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman …
More: PYMNTS.com, Reuters, San Francisco Business Journal, BigTechWire, TechCrunch, Inflection AI, Voicebot.ai, VentureBeat, Fortune, Unite.AI, Crunchbase News, Tech Startups, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Decrypt, Financial Times, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Professor Shafi Ahmed and Alex Konrad
Twitter: @mustafasuleymn, @alexrkonrad, @alex, @mhbergen, @trace_cohen, @tomaxwell, @alexrkonrad, @dan_jeffries1, @saranormous, @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, and @nic__carter. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Kotaku: |
Niantic lays off 230 employees, closes its Los Angeles studio, and moves away from in-house game development, saying its expenses grew faster than its revenue — Pokémon Go will remain one of Niantic's top priorities moving forward — Niantic is shuttering its Los Angeles studio …
More: Niantic Labs, BBC, 9to5Mac, Press Start, Forbes, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, TheGamer, CNBC, IGN, Eurogamer.net, Neowin, Polygon, The Verge, GameRevolution, Engadget, Pocket Gamer.biz, Wall Street Journal, Destructoid, AppleInsider, GameSpot, VentureBeat, Mobilegamer.biz, PhoneArena, Game Rant, Dexerto, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, and My Nintendo News
LinkedIn: Milind Nilekani. Mastodon: @rjfaas@mastodon.social. Twitter: @jreseawolf, @knoebelbroet, @pvpoke, @sweetpotatoes, @ryanfaas, and @gostadiumpvp
Forums: r/Ingress, r/Games, r/PikminBloomApp, and r/nbaallworldhub
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a test globally that limits ad blocker users to three videos, giving them the option to turn off their tool or subscribe to YouTube Premium — YouTube is currently running what it describes as a “small experiment globally,” warning users to toggle off their ad blockers …
More: Android Authority, Android Police, The Verge, Android Central, TechRadar, SlashGear, and Thurrott
Bluesky: @maniamoth.bsky.social and @djcentos7.bsky.social
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @topher@mastodon.online
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta plans to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads; a pilot is set to start with select Android app developers as soon as in 2023 — Meta is planning to let people in the EU directly download apps through Facebook ads, setting the company up to eventually compete with Google and Apple's app stores.
More: 9to5Mac and Social Media Today
Mastodon: @syaochan@mastodon.online. Twitter: @philwinkle, @drbarnard, @supbagholder, @alexeheath, @supbagholder, and @supbagholder. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Fidelity refiles for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US SEC, after similar applications from BlackRock, Invesco, WisdomTree, Valkyrie, Bitwise, and others — Fidelity Investments is the latest financial services heavyweight to throw its name into the race to offer the first US exchange-traded fund investing in Bitcoin.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on “Public Intellectual Marc”, software and the physical world, his AI essay, COVID-19, Twitter, China, a16z, crypto bets, and more — Today's Stratechery Interview — and the last Interview of the summer — is with Marc Andreessen.
Mastodon: @TradingPlacesResearch …. Twitter: @bmorrissey, @packym, @sarthakgh, and @jrichlive. Forums: Hacker News
| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes — In December 2021, San Francisco police were working to solve the murder of an Uber driver. As detectives reviewed local surveillance footage …
Mastodon: @jann@twit.social. Twitter: @lancemackwilson, @rachelmetz, @eff, @sarahfrier, and @tomaxwell
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft adds AI-powered shopping tools, including GPT-generated buying guides in the US, to its Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in Edge's sidebar — Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar.
More: Bing Blogs, Neowin, Thurrott, BigTechWire, SlashGear, Search Engine Journal, Android Authority, Mashable, Search Engine Land, Windows Central, PCMag, Tom's Guide, XDA Developers, and The Verge
Twitter: @yusuf_i_mehdi and @tomwarren
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Court docs: Satya Nadella said Azure's cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period — For years Microsoft has kept a lid on details about the true size of its Azure cloud server rental business …
More: SiliconANGLE and The Verge
Twitter: @divinetechygirl, @aaronpholmes, @marypcbuk, @quinnypig, @rihardjarc, @aaronpholmes, @aaronpholmes, @amir, @alexeheath, @sarthakgh, and @awbnyc
| Bloomberg: |
Documents and sources: in the coming weeks, the FTC plans to file a far-reaching antitrust lawsuit against Amazon's marketplace, after months of honing its case — Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she's gearing up for the Big One.
More: Ars Technica, New York Post, Insider, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Information, PYMNTS.com, and CNBC
Twitter: @progresschamber, @gdufault, @rbreich, and @annaedge4
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| Reuters: |
US authorities charge three men for allegedly making $22M+ via insider trading over a planned SPAC merger between Trump Media, which runs Truth Social, and DWAC — U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged three Florida men with making more than $22 million through insider trading in late 2021 ahead …
More: U.S. Securities …, Washington Post, Axios, The Hill, Financial Times, and Livemint
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to add full-screen, sound-on video ads to Twitter's short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hopes of selling more ads — New CEO hits the ground running with plans for new ads offering and tells staff to get ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’
More: New York Times, Social Media Today, Wall Street Journal, and Cryptopolitan
Bluesky: @sarahposner.bsky.social. Mastodon: @aristeon89@mastodon.online, @colincornaby@mastodon.social, @therealahall@infosec.exchange, @dmnelson@mastodon.social, @emilygorcenski@indieweb …, @MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee, and @juandesant@astrodon.social
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Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and Ars OpenForum
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta publishes a deep dive into how AI recommends Facebook and Instagram content, including 22 “system cards” covering AI use in Feed, Stories, Reels, and more — Meta has published a deep dive into the company's social media algorithms in a bid to demystify how content is recommended for Instagram and Facebook users.| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Ontario-based Passage, which is building a service that helps immigrants access financing to learn and work in Canada, raised a CA$40M seed led by Drive Capital — Ex-ApplyBoard CEO plans to finance skilled immigrants that meet Canada's workforce needs. — After spending seven years … | Richard Priday / Tom's Guide: |
Asus Zenfone 10 review: compact for a 5.9" display, powerful performance, and excellent battery life, but limited cameras and only two years of software updates — Everything you need in a premium Android phone, in a surprisingly small frame — Tom's Guide Verdict … Why you can trust Tom's Guide?
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after an Adalytics report found millions of ads served via YouTube's TrueView system are hidden from users — Study shows millions of ads are hidden away in violation of Google-owned group's policies — Advertising industry figures …
More: Gizmodo, The Register, LinkedIn, The Keyword, AdExchanger, Tech.co, New York Post, PhoneArena, and Adalytics
LinkedIn: Bob Hoffman. Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Twitter: @chronotope, @chris_bittle, @foodofseals, @ralph_grabowski, @checkmyadshq, @nandoodles, @jason_kint, @adcontrarian, @catthekin, and @checkmyadshq
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Activists and researchers file a GDPR complaint against Pornhub in Italy, claiming the company is “illegally” handling users' data; the process could take years — Complaints filed in the European Union claim the porn site fails to follow basic data-collection policies under GDPR.
More: Mashable. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. Twitter: @afrontiercity. Forums: r/technology
| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
NYC-based Venn, which sells a Secure Enclave product that can be installed and controlled on remote employee laptops, raised a $29M Series A led by NewSpring — New York startup scores early stage financing to build new technology to replace virtual desktop infrastructure.
More: Venn Software, Venn, SiliconANGLE, BankInfoSecurity.com, TechNewsWorld, FinSMEs, and FinTech Global
| Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press: |
Industry group NetChoice, which includes Meta and Twitter, sues Arkansas over a new law requiring parental permission for minors to create social media accounts — A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas on Thursday challenging a new state law that requires parental permission for minors to create social media accounts.
More: Bloomberg Law and NetChoice
Twitter: @paul_taske, @paul_taske, @voiceofd, @nsaadbembridge, @paul_taske, @paul_taske, @netchoice, and @chrismarchese9
| Washington Post: |
Meta's Oversight Board calls for Meta to suspend Cambodian PM Hun Sen on Facebook and Instagram, the first time the Board has asked Meta to ban a head of state — MANILA — The social media giant Meta's Oversight Board called Thursday for the immediate suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister …
More: Oversight Board, Agence France-Presse, Gizmodo, Nikkei Asia, Ministry of Information, Al Jazeera, Nikkei Asia, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Engadget, Associated Press, The Guardian, and Reuters
Bluesky: @yoyoel.com and @yoyoel.com
Twitter: @nerisampi, @antbaliga, @maywongcna, @kenroth, @nikkeiasia, @antbaliga, @oversightboard, @atnafb, @reaproy, @reaproy, @rebtanhs, @reaproy, and @oversightboard
| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tiger Global refused hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months for being too low; on January 1, Tiger managed $51B, including $37B in VC — Tiger Global Management turned down hundreds of bids for its private assets in recent months because it felt the offers were too low …
Twitter: @eliotwb and @bamabonds
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC and its suppliers plan to send several hundred more workers from Taiwan to Arizona to speed up building its US plant, which is behind schedule — World's largest contract chipmaker faces delays in Arizona project as market slows — Construction of TSMC's chip plant in Arizona … Sponsor Posts
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