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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google announces AI features coming soon to Meet, including expanding Duet AI to take notes, mid-meeting summaries, and “attending” meetings on a user's behalf  —  If Google Meet's new AI tools are as good as advertised, you might never need to pay attention to another meeting again — or even show up at all.
Bloomberg:
Google adds AI tools from others, like Meta's Llama 2 and Anthropic's Claude 2, to Cloud, expands Duet AI in Workspace, partners with Fox Sports, and more  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform …
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
Google unveils SynthID, a tool that can embed an invisible digital “watermark” into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images  —  The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple announces a September 12 event at 10am PT at Apple Park titled “Wonderlust”, where four iPhone 15 models, the Apple Watch Series 9, and more are expected  —  Apple today announced plans to hold a special event on Tuesday, September 12 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: Apple aims for the iPhone 15 Pro Max to make up 35% to 40% of iPhone 15 shipments, optimistic about its exclusive periscope lens camera as a selling point  —  Apple is aiming for the highest-end iPhone 15 Pro Max to account for roughly 35-40% of initial shipments for the iPhone 15 series …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Omdia: Apple shipped 26.5M iPhone 14 Pro Max phones in H1 2023, the most out of any model from any manufacturer; Apple had all four of the top-shipping models  —  - Last year, the iPhone 13 was the bestselling device on the market, indicating consumers were still buying flagship devices but at the entry level rather than the top end.
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Meta removes the largest Chinese influence campaign to date; the campaign spans thousands of accounts, and many are still active on TikTok, X, and Reddit  —  The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp launches a new native macOS app via its website, coming soon to the App Store, that lets eight users join video calls and 32 users join audio calls  —  WhatsApp said that it has launched a new native app for Mac today.  The app will allow users to participate in video calls …
CoinDesk:
A US appeals court rules that the SEC must “vacate” and review its rejection of Grayscale's bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an ETF  —  A federal appeals court ordered the SEC to “vacate” its rejection of the trust issuer's bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
TechCrunch acquires Connie Loizos' media startup StrictlyVC and names her as TC's EIC and GM; longtime EIC Matthew Panzarino will remain an adviser through 2023  —  TechCrunch, the digital tech and business publication owned by Yahoo, has acquired StrictlyVC, a media startup, from longtime Silicon Valley journalist Connie Loizos.
Eugene Kim / Insider:
Meeting: Andy Jassy told employees who refuse to return to the office “at least three days a week” that “it's probably not going to work out for you at Amazon”  —  - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who disagree with the return-to-office mandate that it's “not going to work out for you.”
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Snap rolls out Dreams, Snapchat's take on the generative AI selfies that Lensa and others popularized, charging $1 for an eight-photo pack; the first is free  —  After releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams.
Washington Post:
Interviews reveal that 34 of 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI's US clients, faced delayed, reduced, or canceled payments  —  CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every …

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New York Times:
Court docs detail a smear campaign against actor Blake Lively via media articles and social media posts after she accused director Justin Baldoni of misconduct

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Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
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Wall Street Journal:
Binance is reevaluating its Russian business, including potentially a full withdrawal, after stopping P2P trading in Russia for all currencies but the ruble
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others are expected to attend Senator Schumer's first AI Insight Forum on September 13
Nathan Edwards / The Verge:
Google announces new automation starters and actions for its Google Home app, plus new features for its Home script editor, which is available in Public Preview
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
In a first, the SEC charges Impact Theory with offering unregistered securities by selling NFTs; the LA-based entertainment company agreed to pay a $6.1M fine
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