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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the challenges Apple is facing as it develops its own wireless modem, expected to replace Qualcomm chips in 2023 iPhones — A series of moves by the tech giant, as well as signals from its suppliers, make clear that it aims to start designing the modems of the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Inside Twitter, frustrations mount over Elon Musk's moderation plans and his limited knowledge, ahead of the Brazil general elections and the US midterms — Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn't appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, Washington Post, Tech Policy Press, Engadget, Insider, Original Jurisdiction, The Pull Request, and TIME
Tweets: @kateconger, @anthony, @maxboot, @nytimesbusiness, @nxthompson, @tweetinjules, @mattyglesias, @karina_reyy, and @tcarmody
| Adam Serwer / The Atlantic: |
Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda — Conservatives on Twitter have greeted Elon Musk as a liberator. The mega-billionaire is in the process of purchasing …
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Benzinga, Socialnomics, Mashable, Washington Post, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Write Revolution, Insider, Newcomer, and Bloomberg
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| CNBC: |
Filings: Elon Musk sold ~$8.4B worth of Tesla stock in the days after his bid to take Twitter private; on Thursday, Musk tweeted “No further TSLA sales planned” — - Elon Musk sold roughly $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares in the days following his bid to take Twitter private …
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @anthony, @zilevandamme, @amy_siskind, @darcyburner, @aiddya, @lessin, @cbouzy, @parismarx, @robtfrank, @tedkempcnbc, @ianbetteridge, @kirbeep, and @readkrystalhu
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
At an all-hands, CEO Parag Agrawal acknowledged Twitter was vulnerable to a takeover since it had historically underachieved and asked staff to “embrace change” — CEO Parag Agrawal on five years of regrets — Late Thursday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the company … | Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
India's Enforcement Directorate says it has seized $725M from Xiaomi's local bank accounts over allegedly illegal royalty payments to its foreign subsidiaries — India said on Saturday it had seized $725 million from the local bank accounts of China's Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) …
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The Economic Times, Engadget, Associated Press, TechCrunch, The Indian Express, and FoneArena.com
Tweets: @ashwani_mahajan, @varunkrish, and @chupchap
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will remove apps that haven't been updated in three years and have few downloads from the App Store, extends the time to update from 30 to 90 days — Late last week, controversy erupted after Apple began notifying some developers that their apps that had not been updated …
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Apple Developer. More:
iThinkDifferent, Neowin, iClarified, MobileSyrup, Engadget, AppleInsider, International Business Times, Daring Fireball, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @markgurman, @sonnydickson, @markgurman, @lapcatsoftware, and @stroughtonsmith
| Heather Perlberg / Bloomberg: |
New crypto mortgages in the US real estate market let property buyers pledge their digital holdings as collateral for a loan, with no down payments necessary — It took Vincent Burniske months to get a seven-figure loan to buy two small apartment buildings in a coveted Miami neighborhood.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
RelationalAI, which develops knowledge graphs for data-driven apps, raises a $75M Series B led by Tiger Global and adds ex-Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia to its board — RelationalAI, a startup that wants to change the way data-driven applications are built by combining a database system with a knowledge graph …
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RelationalAI, GeekWire, and FinSMEs
| The New Indian Express: |
Google starts building a 3.3M-square-foot campus on a 7.3-acre site in Hyderabad, India, which will be its largest campus outside the Mountain View headquarters — The new campus prioritises sustainability and energy-efficiency throughout its design. Upon commissioning,| Ax Sharma / Wired: |
Hollywood's fight against VPN providers like ExpressVPN now goes beyond piracy, as a recent lawsuit alleges VPNs enable crimes like hacking, murder, and more — Beyond accusations of encouraging copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of illegal activity.| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: China plans to end its regulatory crackdown on the country's Big Tech companies and give internet platforms a bigger role to boost its ailing economy — A symposium involving Chinese Big Tech has been scheduled after the Labour Day holiday to assure business leaders on the new direction …
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Wall Street Journal, TheStreet, Protocol, PingWest, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, Bloomberg, The Scroll, and Reuters
| Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: |
Despite SpaceX's global ambitions for Starlink, data shows 98% of users live in the West; many delays come down to regulatory challenges in markets like India — Despite global ambitions, Elon Musk's Starlink struggles to reach users outside North America and Europe.
Tweets: @johnkoetsier
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Exafunction, which aims to reduce AI development costs by abstracting away hardware, raises a $25M Series A led by Greenoaks, with Founders Fund participating — The most sophisticated AI systems today are capable of impressive feats, from directing cars through city streets to writing human-like prose.
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