Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform …
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours
what you need to know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Twitter should be worried as Threads racks up 30 million sign ups in less than 24 hours Livemint : Elon Musk hits out at Zuckerberg as Threads seems ‘Thre...
Meta's Supplemental Privacy Policy for Threads says that “your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account”, surprising some users
Exactly How Private Is Meta's New Twitter Challenger? NBC 7 San Diego : Meta's Twitter Rival Threads Explodes to 50 Million Signups One Day After Launch Rael Hornby / Laptop Mag : How to delete Twitte...
Sources: Apple plans an appointment-only retail launch of the Vision Pro in the US in early 2024, starting with stores in NYC, LA, and other major cities
Apple Inc. is planning a retail launch of its Vision Pro headset with appointments and in-store promotion in select US markets early next year …
Sources: the FBI searched Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell's home in March 2023, as part of US prosecutors' probe into claims he hacked a nonprofit he founded
Federal agents were investigating Jesse Powell, the founder of the crypto exchange Kraken, over claims that he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit arts group.
Report: Binance GC Han Ng, Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann, and compliance SVP Steven Christie are leaving Binance over CZ's response to the DOJ's probe
- Top executives at Binance resigned this week over CEO Changpeng Zhao's handling of regulatory investigations into the company, Fortune reported, citing sources. Source: Fortune .
Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sue NYC, seeking to block new minimum pay standards that increased the hourly wage for gig workers to ~$18 and $20 by 2025
Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub argued that the city used poor data to calculate how much food delivery workers should earn and that the change would hurt consumers.
Sega co-COO Shuji Utsumi says the company is withholding its biggest games from third-party blockchain gaming projects and is shelving its own blockchain games
Sega Corp., the gaming studio once regarded among the staunchest advocates of blockchain gaming, is pulling back from an arena devastated …
Crypto bridging protocol Multichain confirms a $130M exploit affecting user-supplied tokens and recommends “all users suspend the use of Multichain services”
“It is recommended that all users suspend the use of Multichain services and revoke all contract approvals related to Multichain," developers said early Friday.
OpenAI releases its GPT-4 API in general availability, giving all paying developers access and planning to give new developers access by the end of July 2023
OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its paid API.
Apple removes several predatory lending apps from its App Store in India; some of the apps made the finance list's top 20, despite hundreds of negative reviews
Apple removed several predatory lending apps from the App Store in India this week, days after users and media questioned the legitimacy of those services.
Lightning Labs announces tools that let developers create AI agents that leverage GPT function calls to hold, send, and receive bitcoin via Lightning Network
“We are in the realm of enabling use cases that weren't previously possible,” Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark told CoinDesk.
Volkswagen starts testing autonomous driving in Austin, its first US program, beginning with a small fleet of ID. Buzz EVs equipped with VW and Mobileye tech
Kara Carlson / Austin American-Statesman :
Some EU-based Instagram users, including football clubs and media companies, are accessing Threads despite Meta not having launched the platform in the region
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People's Bank of China fines Ant Group ~$984M for violations in payment, settlement, anti-money laundering, and fund sales businesses, ending a years-long probe
Chinese regulators imposed more than $1 billion in fines on tech giants Ant Group Co. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. …
TikTok launches its subscription-only standalone music streaming service TikTok Music in Indonesia and Brazil, featuring UMG's, WMG's, and Sony Music's catalogs
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Global public cloud services revenue hit $545.8B in 2022, up 22.9% YoY; SaaS-Applications led with 45%+ of the revenue, then IaaS with 21.2%, and PaaS with 17%
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Bluesky raised an $8M seed led by Neo and partners with Namecheap to let its users directly purchase and manage custom domains, Bluesky's first paid service
Fun Feature, and Now a Business Model Bluesky : Purchase and Manage Domains Directly Through Bluesky Daniel Levi / Tech Startups : Twitter competitor Bluesky raises $8M; launches paid custom domains i...
Huawei releases Pangu Model 3.0, its new cloud computing AI model for operations, product R&D, and software engineering, based on its own hardware and platforms
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The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Amazon's $1.7B iRobot acquisition, setting a November 15, 2023 deadline to clear or block the deal
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
data.ai: Bluesky passes 1 million downloads globally across iOS and Android, roughly four months after launch; Bluesky has seen ~300K new installs since June 30
As Instagram's new Twitter rival Threads soars into the double-digit millions after launching on Wednesday, another Twitter alternative … Twitter: @manan , @jareddipane , and @holden Twitter: @manan :...
Alibaba unveils Tongyi Wanxiang, an AI-based image generator initially available to enterprise customers in beta, meant to rival Midjourney and OpenAI's DALL-E
Josh Ye / Reuters :
A look at London-based VC firm Balderton's well-being program that helps startup founders manage nutrition, sleep, and mental health to mitigate burnout risk
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
A researcher says a Bangladesh government site is leaking data of millions of citizens, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and national ID numbers
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : Twitter: @lorenzofb and @lorenzofb Twitter: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : We verified the data thanks to a sample shared by @vict0ni, who f...
Sources: Google delays releasing its first fully custom Pixel chip by at least a year; instead of codename Redondo's 2024 debut, codename Laguna is set for 2025
Uber and Careem face a driver shortage in Saudi Arabia, largely due to laws letting only Saudis work for the companies and mandating that drivers own their cars
Samer Al-Atrush / Financial Times :
Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for July 26 at 7am ET in Seoul, where the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, Watch 6, and new tablets are expected
A profile of Atsuyoshi Koike, the CEO of chip startup Rapidus, which plans to invest ~$35B by 2027 to build 2nm chips in Japan and help the US to counter China
Wall Street Journal : Twitter: @jchengwsj Twitter: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : “Today, the great fear driving chip investments is China, and U.S. policy calls for helping allies such as Japan build...
DigitalOcean plans to acquire NYC-based Paperspace, which offers cloud computing for AI models, for $111M in cash; Paperspace had raised $35M from YC and others
A test by the New York Fed and big banks on a private blockchain finds tokenized deposits can improve wholesale payments without “insuperable legal impediments”
A profile of former FTX Chief Regulatory Officer Daniel Friedberg, who had a complex role that extended far beyond legal advice and has no cooperation agreement
Tokyo-based Telexistence, which develops AI-powered robotic arms for retail and logistics, raised a $170M Series B from SoftBank, Airbus Ventures, and others
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