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A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling favoring publishers in a copyright dispute over The Internet Archive's ebook lending program — What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn't bother because it would be available to be borrowed for free from a library?
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| New York Times: |
Analysis of 3.2M+ Telegram messages from 16K+ channels shows how the app is inundated with criminal activity, CSAM, drug dealers, white nationalists, and more — Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform …
More: TechCrunch and NewsBytes
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| Eva Hartog / Politico: |
A profile of Pavel Durov's older brother Nikolai, who is reportedly still in Russia and is responsible for Telegram's encryption standard MTProto protocol — Nikolai Durov, who is also wanted by cops in France, is responsible for the messaging app's encryption standard.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it had over 9M users as of September 6, after adding 3M new users in the week or so since Brazil blocked X, and that video support is “coming soon” — Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: xAI discussed a deal that would give Tesla access to its AI models to help power Full Self-Driving in exchange for a share of Tesla's software revenue — Under a proposed arrangement, the startup would give Tesla access to its AI technology in exchange for a slice of the carmaker's software revenue
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Payroll startup Warp, part of YC's W23 batch, disavows a racist post from an affiliate X account, amid claims its affiliates on X are posting “engagement bait” — Warp is under the spotlight following controversial posts from an account tied to the company.| Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent: |
CelesTrak: SpaceX controls 62%+ of all active satellites in orbit, ~10x more than closest rival OneWeb, after launching its 7,000th Starlink satellite on Sep. 5 — SpaceX's Starlink network is growing by an average of three satellites per day — Elon Musk now controls nearly two thirds …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9 — A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors.
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| Levi Sumagaysay / CalMatters: |
An investigation details the lack of enforcement of CA's Prop 22 about four years after the ballot initiative, backed by gig economy companies, became state law — Prop. 22 promised improved pay and benefits for California gig workers. But when companies fail to deliver, the state isn't doing much to help push back.
More: Blood in the Machine. Threads: @leviesu, @benc_cm, and @leviesu
| Bloomberg: |
Character.AI, Aleph Alpha, and other AI startups that raised hundreds of millions are struggling to compete against better-funded rivals and Big Tech companies — Even companies that raised hundreds of millions in funding are bowing out of the race to develop advanced AI models.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Hero Games' Daniel Wu reflects on his studio's 20% stake in Game Science, the creator of China's biggest PC game Black Myth: Wukong, which has sold 18M+ copies — - China's biggest PC game reached 18 million sales in two weeks — Beijing endorsement of ‘Wukong’ seen as positive for industry
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| Financial Times: |
Companies and customers say the cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips is lower in China than in the US despite the export controls — Supply of processors helps Chinese start-ups advance artificial intelligence technology despite Washington's restrictions
More: Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, TipRanks Financial, The Information, and Wccftech. LinkedIn: Eleanor Olcott
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