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US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers — Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
US v. Google: a judge rules Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and used exclusive agreements to raise prices without any competition — A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Apple and Mozilla may take a big revenue hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; $510M of Mozilla's $593M in revenue was via its Google deal in 2021 and 2022 — “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” — With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …
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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research” — I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
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| The Information: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he's taking a sabbatical through the end of 2024; a source says OpenAI product leader Peter Deng, who joined in 2023, left — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google unveils the $100 Google TV Streamer, with better performance than Chromecast with Google TV, Thread and Matter support, and more, shipping September 24 — Google isn't waiting for its upcoming hardware event to announce the Chromecast's successor. Alongside the new, sleeker Nest Thermostat …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A look at some of Apple's pre-prompt instructions for Apple Intelligence, including “do not hallucinate” for a text generation feature — Apple's latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.7B, Gross Bookings up 19% YoY to $40B, vs. $39.7B est., Mobility Gross Bookings up 23% YoY to $20.6B, and 7.4M drivers — - Results driven by better-than-expected growth in ridehailing — Autonomous rides grew six-fold from year ago through partners| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Samsung starts mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it is 9% thinner than most LPDDR5X and improves devices' heat resistance by 21.2% — The new package frees additional space. — Samsung has started mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities.
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In an email to staff, Linda Yaccarino says X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to San Jose offices and a new Palo Alto office shared with xAI — Elon Musk, X's owner, has clashed with California's leaders and has said the social media platform would move its headquarters to Texas.
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| Bloomberg: |
The US awards South Korea's SK Hynix an initial $450M in grants and $500M in loans to build an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiana under the CHIPS Act — - Firm to get $450 million Chips Act grant, $500 million loan — Indiana facility focused on advanced packaging, research| Wall Street Journal: |
How Google's Character.AI deal, which sources say had a $2B licensing fee, and other Big Tech AI deals show startups are seeking bailouts after raising billions — Amazon, Google and Microsoft are using a new type of deal to get employees and technology from artificial-intelligence firms
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Abnormal Security, which uses ML and AI to detect email cyberattacks, raised a $250M Series D at a $5.1B valuation, up from $4B after raising $210M in May 2022 — Abnormal Security closed a $250 million Series D that now values the San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup at $5.1 billion.
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| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Red Ventures sells CNET, an early pioneer of online tech coverage, to Ziff Davis, which owns Mashable, PC Mag, and other brands, a source says for $100M+ — Ziff Davis is acquiring CNET for more than $100 million. Its chief executive thinks more acquisitions are on the horizon.
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| Financial Times: |
The US NIST is set to publish three security algorithms, put out for comment in 2023, to protect data from quantum hacking, as the agency awaits the sign off — Global authorities speed up focus on growing threat to traditional cryptography — SPOTLIGHT| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
UK filings: since 2023, Saudi Arabia's PIF has put $750M into Magic Leap, including $160M so far in 2024; Magic Leap says it needs to raise more by next month — - Startup says in filing that it must raise more funds soon — Magic Leap cut its entire sales and marketing teams in July
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases patches for 46 Android security vulnerabilities, including a kernel zero-day the company says “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — Android security updates this month patch 46 vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) exploited in targeted attacks.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
ProRata.ai, which aims to attribute and share revenue with content owners from AI chatbot subscriptions, raised a $25M Series A, inks deals with media companies — A handful of major news and music companies have agreed to license their content to ProRata.ai, a generative AI startup that claims … | Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
NCR Voyix agrees to sell its digital banking business to buyout firm Veritas Capital for $2.45B+ in cash; the platform serves 1,300+ US financial institutions — - Buyout includes $100 million contingent consideration — NCR Voyix stock jumps as much as 16% in premarket trading
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