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Sources: Apple built Ajax, a framework for building LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and is planning an AI announcement in 2024 — - Company builds large language models and internal chatbot — Executives haven't decided how to release tools to consumers
More: Engadget, Supervised, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, Insider, Android Authority, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Verge, MobileSyrup, Laptop Mag, Fast Company, Dexerto, TechRadar, Investing.com UK, Business Post, Macworld, BigTechWire, Tom's Guide, iThinkDifferent, Search Engine Journal, Reuters, Livemint, CNBC, CoinGape, Windows Central, Barron's Online, Six Colors, TweakTown, XDA Developers, Cointelegraph, Neowin, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Supercharged, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, MacDailyNews, Redmond Pie, Watcher Guru, and SlashGear
Twitter: @scobleizer, @stevesi, @manan, @joannastern, @newsynick, @rachelmetz, @mgsiegler, and @markgurman
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| Or Goren / Cord Busters: |
Netflix removes its most affordable $10/month ad-free Basic tier in the US and UK, charging new and rejoining members £10.99/month or $15.49/month for no ads — This post may contain affiliate links* — Breaking: In a major shakeup of its pricing model, Netflix, the global streaming giant …
More: The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Variety, ZDNet, TechCrunch, USA Today, PYMNTS.com, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, IGN, TechRadar, Thurrott, MacRumors, Android Police, USA Today, Sky News, New York Post, ABC4 Utah, AFTVnews, Bloomberg, Reuters, Android Central, Cult of Mac, MarketWatch, Washington Times, Tech Advisor, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Digital Trends, GameSpot, The Streamable, Mashable, Fortune, Looper, Android Headlines, TweakTown, Game Rant, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, Appleosophy, XDA Developers, PhoneArena, Neowin, TechHive, Deadline, T3, Polygon, SlashGear, TalkAndroid.com, The Mirror, The A.V. Club, and Collider
Twitter: @tvgrimreaper, @richlightshed, @deggans, @alexweprin, and @tidalcap
Forums: r/technology, r/cordcutters, r/netflix, and Ars OpenForum
| Lisa Richwine / Reuters: |
Netflix Q2: revenue up 2.7% YoY to $8.2B, vs. $8.3B est., net income up 3.3% YoY to $1.5B, 5.9M net new subscribers, vs. 1.9M est., and a Q3 forecast below est. — Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) handily beat Wall Street earnings forecasts on Wednesday as a password-sharing crackdown …
More: TechCrunch, Netflix, Thurrott, The Information, Investor's Business Daily, The Verge, CNN, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Fast Company, IGN, Android Central, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Benzinga, Deadline, Seeking Alpha, MarketWatch, The Wrap, Variety, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, Shacknews, The Desk, Hollywood Reporter, The Streamable, and CNBC
Twitter: @karlbode, @sarthakgh, @tvgrimreaper, @reigncoates, @bluthcapital, @loudmouthjulia, @lucas_shaw, and @lucas_shaw. Threads: @carnage4life
| Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard agree to extend the finalization of their merger agreement to October 18, pending the outcome of negotiations with the UK CMA — Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have agreed to extend their merger agreement pending the outcome of negotiations with UK regulators.
More: Activision Blizzard, The Information, Financial Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, IGN, Game Developer, TechSpot, Neowin, Dexerto, Reuters, Newser, CNBC, GeekWire, CNN, Game Rant, Wccftech, Forbes, Bloomberg, Engadget, Gameranx, MobileSyrup, Variety, Axios, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Android Headlines, Thurrott, AppleInsider, Dot Esports, and The Hill
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Forums: r/XboxGamePass, r/xboxone, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/pcgaming
| C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: |
Google launches Nearby Share for Windows, letting users transfer files between PCs and Android devices close to each other, after debuting a beta in March 2023 — Anyone can download Nearby Share for Windows now, but your future laptop might come with it pre-installed. — • — TL;DR| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft plans to give 31 security logs to its lower-cost cloud service licensees for free in September 2023, after its China hack disclosures drew criticism — Company says it will make security logs available to customers with lower-cost cloud services — Microsoft said it plans …
More: Microsoft Security Blog, Cybersecurity …, iTnews, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Neowin, CNN, Axios, Dark Reading, Cybersecurity Dive, SecurityWeek, BleepingComputer, and SC Media
LinkedIn: Vasu Jakkal and C. Kelly Bissell
Twitter: @ericgeller, @rootsecdev, and @teroalhonen
| Matthew Humphries / PCMag: |
Intel grants Asus a non-exclusive license to its NUC designs; Asus plans to make, sell, and support 10th to 13th gen systems and can develop new system designs — The agreement covers existing NUCs and allows Asus to design new models. … , Asus is granted a non-exclusive license …
More: Intel, Engadget, AnandTech, Windows Central, The Verge, AppleInsider, OSnews, Ars Technica, ExtremeTech, TechSpot, Gameranx, PetaPixel, The Register, CRN, KitGuru, HotHardware, and Liliputing
LinkedIn: Jeff Jacob and Pat Gelsinger
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
France designates Société Générale's blockchain unit Forge a digital asset service provider, issuing the country's first license under its new crypto rules — - Forge awarded permissions to act as custodian, trade crypto — License will help meet demand from institutional clients: CEO
More: SG FORGE, AMF, Reuters, crypto.news, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, DL News, CryptoPotato, Bitcoinist.com, Crypto Daily, Decrypt, and Ethereum World News
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, and others are testing using “synthetic data” as developers find generic data from the web is no longer good enough for training LLMs — Microsoft, OpenAI and Cohere experiment with “synthetic data,” as they reach the limits of information created by humans
More: OnMSFT.com, Fast Company, and Neowin
| Bloomberg: |
Researchers say hate speech and misinformation on Twitter are up; CEO Linda Yaccarino says that's “incorrect” and touts improvements, like ad placement controls — Since Musk's takeover, a number of researchers see a rise in hate speech, violent content
More: Designing Tomorrow, The Verge, and Deadline
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches a standalone WhatsApp app for Wear OS 3, letting smartwatch users start chats, reply to messages, and take calls without their connected phone — WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google's Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Unity launches PolySpatial, which was unveiled alongside the Vision Pro at WWDC to help developers port and create 3D experiences for Apple's visionOS, in beta — Unity this morning announced that it has opened the beta version of its development platform for visionOS.
More: Business Wire, MacRumors, CNBC, Unity Blog, iMore, Auganix.org, UploadVR, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, Neowin, and Game Developer. Twitter: @unity
| Emmy Lucas / Forbes: |
Los Angeles-based Karat Financial, which offers creators banking and credit card services, raised a $70M Series B, split as $40M in equity and $30M in debt — The creator economy is booming: Goldman Sachs estimates its total addressable market to be $250 billion today.
More: The Information, Karat Financial, VentureBeat, and Tubefilter
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Michael Moritz leaves Sequoia for the firm's wealth management business; sources: partners Mike Vernal, Michelle Fradin, Kais Khimji, and Daniel Chen also left — Five Sequoia Capital partners have left the firm, the biggest shakeup to the storied venture firm's leadership since its leader Roelof Botha took over a year ago.
More: Reuters, New York Times, Silicon Valley Business …, and Financial Times. Twitter: @kateclarktweets
| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Microsoft's stock closed up 4% at $359.49 on July 18, an all-time high, after announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot's subscription pricing; MSFT is up 45%+ in 2023 — - Microsoft shares rallied to an all-time high after the company announced pricing for its new Microsoft 365 artificial intelligence subscription service.
More: The Verge, Microsoft 365 Blog, Thurrott, Adweek, iThinkDifferent, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, BigTechWire, OnMSFT.com, WinBuzzer, Reuters, and Engadget
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
The DOJ and the FTC release draft updates to US merger guidelines, introducing potentially comprehensive changes to reviews for the first time in over a decade — The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday released a set of long-anticipated draft updates …
More: Ars Technica, Federal Trade Commission, Fortune, US Department of Justice, Reuters, Truth on the Market, The Verge, Politico, The Hill, HuffPost, Gizmodo, Deadline, CNBC, and Axios
LinkedIn: Shaoul Sussman. Twitter: @bedoyaftc, @khushitavasant, @econliberties, @econliberties, @econliberties, @econliberties, @ftc, and @pat_garofalo
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Meta delayed releasing AR glasses to at least 2027, after having to cut the microLED display, lidar, 3D projector, and more due to technical setbacks — In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic began to transform the world, the company then known as Facebook struck a deal to buy …
More: Android Central, Android Authority, UploadVR, BigTechWire, and SlashGear
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Threads uses a largely replicated Instagram algorithm, prioritizing creators' and friends' posts over hard news, and relies on Instagram moderators — Facebook's parent company downgrades current affairs on Threads app and refuses to engage with Canadian law designed to fund media groups| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
A look at “non-playable character” TikTok creators, like Pinkydoll, who livestream themselves saying phrases and doing robotic actions repetitively for tips — On TikTok, a woman named Pinkydoll with a thousand-yard stare faces you, undulating just enough to let you know she's alive.
More: Dexerto, The Guardian, and New York Times
Twitter: @detectclips, @hassankhan, @jason, @jakeriley, @jayjay_frfr, @sinfuldon_, @hassankhan, @jason, @broderick, and @genepark. Threads: @carnage4life
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $15.48B, vs. $15.58B est., net income up 14% YoY to $1.6B, software up 7% YoY to $6.6B, and consulting up 4% YoY to $5B — - IBM reported better-than-expected earnings on Wednesday, expanding its gross margin. — Revenue missed consensus estimates.| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Miami-based Cosmic Wire, which sells blockchain infrastructure and metaverse creation tools, raised a $30M seed led by the Solana Foundation and Polygon — The startup offers metaverse creation tools and a list of general blockchain infrastructure solutions.
More: The Block, Cosmic Wire, and Metaverse Post
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Beats Studio Pro review: headphones with a good transparency mode, lossless USB-C audio, and native iOS and Android support, but a subpar build quality for $350 — They look like a lazy refresh from the outside, but the noise-canceling Studio Pros include a ton of new features like transparency mode and lossless USB-C audio.
More: iThinkDifferent, TechRadar, Wccftech, Gizmodo, Engadget, Laptop Mag, BGR, Cult of Mac, iClarified, AppleInsider, TechPowerUp, SlashGear, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, T3, iMore, Pocket-lint, SPARROWS NEWS, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, and Pocketnow
Twitter: @ChanceHMiller and @raoo4o1
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: former FTX COO Zhe “Constance” Wang joined crypto VC firm Sino Global Capital; Wang has not been accused of wrongdoing in FTX's or Alameda's collapses — - Wang worked at Credit Suisse and Huobi before joining FTX — Wang held COO position at FTX up until the exchange collapsed
More: CryptoPotato, Ethereum World News, and The Block
| Axios: |
Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using Chorus, its CMS that the company licensed to external publishers from 2018 to 2022, and move its websites to WordPress — Vox Media, the parent company to websites such as New York Magazine, Eater and SB Nation, will no longer use Chorus …
More: AdExchanger and Pixel Envy
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