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.
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
Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission — In an enforcement action announced on Monday …
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 …
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 …
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Google plans to update Chat with a new design, Duet AI tools, “huddles” for audio and video calls, capacity for 500K people in group channels, and more
Google is making some big changes to Google Chat, its answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Google says Duet AI for Workspace will cost $30/month/user for enterprise, consumer pricing will come in the coming months, and Workspace has 10M paying users
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Apple announces an event at Apple Park on September 12 at 10am PT, titled “Wonderlust”, where the iPhone 15, 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.
An OHCHR investigation finds 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”
The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia …
Binance is reevaluating its Russian business, including potentially a full withdrawal, after stopping P2P trading in Russia for all currencies but the ruble
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, is reevaluating its Russian business, including the possibility of a full withdrawal …
Amazon confirms testing increasing the free shipping minimum to $35 from $25 for non-Prime members; Walmart also has a $35 minimum for non-Walmart+ members
- Amazon is testing a $35 free shipping minimum for people who aren't members of the company's Prime loyalty program.
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
Google Home is getting smarter. In a pair of blog posts published today, Google announced a bunch of new automation starters …
Google Cloud announces its 5th generation Tensor Processing Units, promising 2x training performance improvement per dollar compared to 2021's 4th gen TPUs
At Cloud Next, its annual user conference, Google Cloud today announced the launch of the fifth generation of its tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI training and inferencing.
Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support …
Snap begins rolling out Dreams, a take on the generative AI selfies that Lensa and others have popularized, for $1 per eight-photo pack, after a first free pack
After releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams.
Similarweb and Data.ai: Meta blocking news in Canada has had almost no impact on Canadians' Facebook usage, supporting Meta's claim that news holds little value
Meta's (META.O) decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians' usage of Facebook …
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.
Google unveils SynthID, which embeds an invisible digital “watermark” directly 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
Doc: Lenovo plans to unveil a €799 Legion Go gaming handheld, with an 8.8" 144Hz 2560×1600 display and 16GB of RAM, and €499 Legion AR glasses, on September 1
Vlad Turiceanu / Windows Report :
Court filing: DCG makes an in-principle deal with Genesis creditors to resolve their bankruptcy claims, estimating recoveries of 70%-90% for unsecured creditors
Is the Saga Over? Lacton Muriuki / Cryptopolitan : Genesis vows 70-90% returns for creditors in new deal Samyuktha Sriram / Unchained Crypto : DCG and Genesis Reach In-Principle Deal With Creditors Ti...
OpenAI launches GPT-4-powered ChatGPT Enterprise, with improved privacy, performance, and data analysis features; pricing is “dependent on each company's usage”
but is it playing catch-up? X: Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy : Imo the productivity amplification here is so large that organizations should be thinking about it as a basic work tool, like a new kind of...
A look at Disney's shifting India strategy, after the unit reported a $41.5M loss on $390M revenue in the year to March 2022, including free cricket on mobile
Walt Disney (DIS.N) is attempting to revive the fortunes of its streaming business in India by offering free cricket on smartphones …
Intel details its Xeon chips Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids set for 2024, claiming Sierra Forest has a 2.4x higher performance per watt than fourth-gen Xeons
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
WhatsApp launches a new native macOS app, available via its website; users can participate in video calls with up to eight people and audio with 32 people
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
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
Rebecca Klar / The Hill :
Yahoo Mail gets Shopping Saver, a tool to find gift cards, discount codes, and more in inboxes and draft messages to vendors to apply them to previous purchases
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
YouTube lets creators take an educational training course when they receive a warning, which YouTube lifts if they don't violate the same policy within 90 days
if they attend a class See also Mediagazer
Stockholm-based payments startup Trustly acquires Paris-based recurring payments startup SlimPay, sources say for €70M; Trustly shelved its IPO plans in 2021
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg :
Tesla faces its first trials over Autopilot allegedly causing crashes that killed the car's owner, in California court in September and Florida court in October
And It's Far From Perfect Forums: Hacker News : Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality r/electricvehicles : Elon Musk's FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light and doxx...
Nielsen: over two years, the number of streaming titles in the US, Canada, UK, Mexico, and Germany grew 39% to 2.35M and streaming services grew from 118 to 167
The number of streaming services jumped from 118!to 167 as well. … See also Mediagazer
Apollo.io, which sells marketing and sales tools to 500K+ firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.6B valuation, up from ~$900M after raising $110M in March 2022
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
A look at friend.tech, crypto's latest craze that briefly became the second highest earning platform after Ethereum, now overrun by bots and “speculative games”
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg :
Analysis: ChatGPT can draft political messages targeting specific voting demographics; in March 2023, OpenAI said it banned campaigns from making such material
DoorDash launches AI-powered voice ordering tech, giving restaurants a multi-language personalized voice ordering system without missed calls or long wait times
Docs: Google plans to sell mapping API access to companies making products that use solar, energy, and air quality data, targeting ~$100M in revenue in year one
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
A look at Kick, a Twitch rival launched in 2022 that is attracting top creators with lucrative contracts, looser moderation policies, and a 95/5 revenue split
It seems someone else noticed and created a competitor called Kick with friendlier moderation policies towards both types of edgy content and a 95/5 revenue split. …
A look at Monotype, which owns most major fonts, like Arial and Helvetica, and exchanges FontShop and MyFonts; designers say the industry is becoming a monopoly
Sara Friedman / The Hustle :
Sources: NYC-based workplace safety AI startup Intenseye is raising a $65M Series B led by Lightspeed at a ~$300M valuation, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2021
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