Qualcomm says Apple extended its modem deal for three more years, covering “smartphone launches in 2024, 2025, and 2026”; the prior deal was set to end in 2023
- Pact between the companies had been scheduled to end this year — The iPhone maker has been trying to create its own components
WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, offering a clue for how Meta plans to comply with the EU's DMA interoperability rules
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.8.
An expected high-end iPhone price increase and features like iPhone 15 Pro Max's periscope lens show Apple is getting more aggressive with its premium strategy
Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 15 on Tuesday, alongside updated watches and AirPods. And once again, the company …
Filing: Instacart aims to raise up to $616M in its IPO at an up to $7.73B valuation and prices shares at $26 to $28; the listing is expected later this month
Instacart is aiming for a valuation of up to $7.73 billion, the grocery delivery company said on Monday, in its march toward …
Research: ChatGPT uses an estimated 500ml of water for every five to 50 prompts; Microsoft disclosed the company's water use spiked 34% YoY in 2022, Google 20%
The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed …
Microsoft ends software support for the original Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates
On its third birthday, the original Surface Duo is no longer supported by Microsoft. — What you need to know
Sources: seeking to shore up its finances, Embracer is considering options for US-based Borderlands developer Gearbox, acquired in a $1.4B deal in February 2021
Embracer (EMBRACb.ST) is considering options for its U.S. game developer Gearbox Entertainment including a sale …
FTX sues cross-chain swap protocol builder LayerZero Labs, seeking to undo a $45M deal made four days before FTX filed for bankruptcy and a $40M cash withdrawal
- The FTX estate is suing blockchain infrastructure company LayerZero Labs in an attempt to undo a $45M deal made in the midst of its collapse.
An interview with Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, the new biography, why Musk agreed, the Twitter acquisition, Musk being “driven by demons”, surprises, and more
The writer tells Gillian Tett what he learnt during two years spent with ‘total access’ to the tech tycoon
Coinbase emails its customers in India to say the company plans to cease operations in the country from September 25, advising users to withdraw remaining funds
Coinbase said Monday that it has disabled new user sign-up on its exchange product in India, but remains committed to the country …
A competition between Wharton MBA students and ChatGPT that judges generating ideas for a new product or service finds that 35 of the top 40 came from ChatGPT
We put humans and AI to the test. The results weren't even close. — How good is AI in generating new ideas?
Filing: FTX's estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $1.5B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and $200M in properties in the Bahamas
The company says it paid billions to executives including founder Sam Bankman-Fried before filing for bankruptcy last year. — Register Now
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group CEO Daniel Zhang steps down, after assuming the role in June 2023; Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu becomes the unit's acting chair and CEO
Vitalik Buterin's X account was hacked to promote a crypto scam, leading to an estimated $650K+ of assets being stolen; the tweet was deleted within 20 minutes
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Nintendo and DeNA tell Mario Kart Tour users that the mobile game will not be updated after October 4, signaling Nintendo's lessening focus on mobile titles
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Sources: Meta plans to begin training a new LLM in Q1 2024 on its own infrastructure and hopes the model will be roughly as capable as OpenAI's GPT-4
Wall Street Journal :
Dennis Austin, who was PowerPoint's principal developer and continued to lead the presentation software's team until retiring in 1996, died on September 1 at 76
How LLMs are taught to reason, the downsides of “chain of thought”, how models might solve problems without reasoning, and evaluating LLMs for general reasoning
What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today's large language models? X: @mattbeane , @rtk254 , @rodneyabrooks , and @piesaac X: Matt Beane / @mattbeane : VERY well written summary of...
Why there has never been a better time for online creators: it might be harder than ever to earn $1M per year but it has never been easier to make $50,000
I judge the health of the creator economy by one single controversial factor: ease of access and probability of survival for its participants. Threads: @carmona . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @...
US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won a fine arts competition, despite many prompt revisions and it being altered with Photoshop
The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence …
UK-based Open Cosmos, which builds “sustainable” low-earth orbit satellites and a platform to manage their data, raised $50M, taking its total funding to $57M
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A Myanmar official says his ethnic minority militia arrested and repatriated 1,200+ Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations
Associated Press :
Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) review: big, beautiful screen, tough, durable, and incredible satellite support, but no solar charging, pricey, and kind of embarrassing
Adrienne So / Wired :
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users: X is throttling posts with New York Times links, with “weekly average shares per article” down 75%+ from a July peak
if one big legacy site does it the others will likely follow, but no one wants to be the first to jump. https://www.semafor.com/... Mastodon: Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social : Data strongly ...
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips
Bengaluru-based fintech Perfios, which offers real-time credit underwriting tools to financial companies, raised a $229M Series D led by Kedaara Capital
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How cybercriminals in Turkey teamed up with Russian émigré hackers to steal and sell tens of millions of credit card numbers, passwords, “hot” cookies, and more
Some of them, Turkish police and security researchers said, turned to relatively low-level online scams and fraud to support themselves …
How Lisbon's quality of life, crypto-friendly tax laws, and government incentives for foreigners have made the city one of the crypto capitals of the world
UK researchers unveil Bluebird, a “digital twin” of English airspace for examining AI's potential role in air traffic control, part of a £15M government project
Clive Cookson / Financial Times : X: @mattgarrahan and @katebevan X: Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan : Yes let's definitely let AI run our air traffic control systems https://www.ft.com/... Kate Bev...
Sources: US chipmakers and companies, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Google, plan to attend a September 11 meeting in Hanoi as Biden visits to boost ties
Q&A with Brian Ward, the CEO of Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group, on the $4.9B acquisition of Scopely, esports, human rights issues in Saudi Arabia, and more
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How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes
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