Sources: Apple and Microsoft have argued that iMessage and Bing are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” set to be regulated under the EU's DMA
Battle comes ahead of publication of first list of services to be regulated under Digital Markets Act
Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop
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Filing: SoftBank prices Arm's shares at $47 and $51, aiming to raise up to $4.87B by selling 95.5M shares, for a $52B+ valuation and the biggest US IPO of 2023
SoftBank Group's (9984.T) Arm is aiming to raise up to $4.87 billion in the chip designer's U.S. initial public offering, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
How Spotify's $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows are not profitable, debates over exclusivity, cutting original shows, and more
The prospect of podcast riches led to aggressive investments in celebrity deals and original programming for what appeared a sky's-the-limit media frontier
Visa expands its USDC stablecoin settlements to Solana, partnering with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilots, and has already moved millions of USDC via VisaNet
- Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, forming partnerships with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilot programs.
Antenna: MLS Season Pass had 110K US signups on July 21, the day of Messi's first MLS match, up from 6,143 on July 20; July was TV+'s best signup month in 2023
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Email: Spotify raises the listener threshold for creators in Ambassador Ads from 100 to 1,000 over 60 days, and plans to cut ad support for white noise podcasts
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Reddit hastily replacing some of its long-time mods raises questions about the company prioritizing reopening protesting subreddits over finding the best people
Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules. — Did you know that improper food canning can lead to death?
Microsoft rolls out a new Xbox dashboard that lets users stream Xbox gameplay to anyone on Discord one-way, a new way to report Xbox audio clips, and more
Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox dashboard for September that includes the ability to stream your Xbox gameplay to Discord friends …
Analysis: lawyers, accountants, consultants, and more have charged $700M+ in fees since 2022 in the bankruptcies of FTX, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, and Genesis
Bankruptcy lawyers and other corporate turnaround specialists have reaped major fees from the bankruptcies of five cryptocurrency companies, including FTX.
Meta plans to eliminate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries
The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the UK, Germany and France.
An in-depth profile of OpenAI, Sam Altman, CTO Greg Brockman, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones along the way to building an AGI
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TikTok hires UK cybersecurity company NCC to audit its data controls and protections, and provide independent verification, as part of Project Clover in Europe
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Senator Marsha Blackburn, the Kids Online Safety Act's lead sponsor, says the US legislation would be used to “protect minor children” from transgender people
This is a bad bill. — Senator Admits “Kids Online Safety Act” Will Target Trans Content Online — https://www.erininthemorning.com/ ... Dinah / @metagrrrl@mastodon.social : Time to start contacting...
TikTok opens its first European data center, in Ireland, after announcing the project in August 2020, and plans to complete data migration by Q4 2024
It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially, at least …
Korean media report: Meta partnered with LG to launch a new Quest Pro in 2025 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro; Meta also plans a sub-$200 headset in 2024
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Sources detail a tumultuous 12 months for Sequoia: spinning off its highly profitable Chinese arm, its FTX and Twitter bets souring, and Michael Moritz leaving
Silicon Valley's premier venture firm undergoes ‘profound change’ after China splits and bets on FTX and Twitter sour X: @bondhack and @refsrc X: Robert Smith / @bondhack : [image] Manish Singh / @ref...
Intel and Tower Semiconductor say the Israeli contract chipmaker will invest $300M in Intel's New Mexico factory, after their $5.4B merger collapsed in August
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters :
Copyright activists are working to wipe Books3 from the internet, which may only benefit the big companies that have already been using the AI training dataset
Because people use the term Artificial Intelligence to cover LLMs and other generative tools, they confuse the category of “people” with the category of “tools”. — I am in no way denying that someda...
Israel-based payments startup ThetaRay, which uses AI to monitor financial transactions, raised $57M led by Portage Ventures, taking its total funding to $148M
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Sources: China plans to launch a new state-backed fund that aims to raise ~$41B for its chip sector, larger than the ~$19B and ~$27B funds from 2014 and 2019
How LLMs like GPT-4 can have an equalizing effect in some cases, boosting less-skilled workers and potentially leveling the human-capital playing field
Noah Smith / Noahpinion : X: @brianroemmele , @suchenzang , @jaykreps , @natolambert , @noahpinion , @noahpinion , and @noahpinion X: Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele : My thesis also. I would add qui...
Dutch chipmaker NXP alerts customers to a breach involving their personal data, discovered on July 14; NXP declines to say how many customers had been impacted
A NXP spokesperson declined to elaborate on the nature of the breach, and wouldn't say why NXP has only just begun informing those affected. The intrusion took place on July 11, and was discovered by...
Israel-based Upwind, which sells tools to detect and respond to cloud infrastructure threats, raised $50M at a $300M valuation, taking its total funding to $80M
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg :
Mujin, which develops AI software for industrial automation, raised a $85M Series C led by SBI Investment, bringing its total funding to $150M
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
Indian telecoms Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone-Idea ask regulators to force internet giants to pay for network usage based on traffic, echoing proposals globally
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Forums: r/india Forums: r/india : India's richest man wants tech companies to pay for network usage
Malaysia says the government is in talks with Google, Meta, and other companies over a regulatory framework that requires paying news outlets for their content
UK-based holographics startup Envisics, which is building in-car AR heads-up display tech, raised $50M in a second Series C tranche, closing the round at $100M
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Filing: Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma becomes the company's biggest investor, with a 19.42% stake, after acquiring shares from China's Ant Group
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