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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Podcast app Pocket Casts, which WordPress parent company Automattic acquired in July 2021, releases its mobile clients on GitHub under an open-source license  —  Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license.
Washington Post:
Interviews with over three dozen creators about going viral on TikTok show how the app's vast reach plus tools like “duet” and “stitch” can amplify harassment  —  TikTok's explosive stardom has created a new kind of celebrity.  But nothing goes viral like rage.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A profile of Stability AI founder and CEO Emad Mostaque, a British former hedge fund manager who has quickly become a polarizing figure within the AI community  —  A celebration for Stability AI, the start-up behind the controversial Stable Diffusion image generator, represents the arrival of a new A.I. boom.
Axios:
The RNC sues Google for Gmail allegedly putting its campaign emails in spam, after criticizing Google's pilot launched in September 2022 to address the problem  —  The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a lawsuit against Google in a U.S. district court in California for allegedly putting …
Rachel Metz / CNN:
Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid  —  Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey is leaving, after replacing Jony Ive in 2019; sources say Airbnb VP of Design Gary Butcher is returning to Apple  —  Apple Inc.'s head of hardware design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the iPhone maker three years after taking the role …
Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News:
Chicago-based Tempus, which uses AI for drug discovery, clinical trials, and diagnostics, raised $275M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to $1.3B+  —  This is not your average raise.  —  Biotech upstart Tempus announced on Thursday it raised $275 million through equity …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition

Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

More News

Adnan Bhat / Rest of World:
Experts: India's TikTok clones like Moj and Josh haven't replicated TikTok's success, and Instagram and YouTube will take over the country's short-video segment
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Reliance, the parent company of India's largest telecom Jio, launches JioBook, a ~$190 laptop with 4G and JioOS, a custom Android-based OS with local languages
Wall Street Journal:
How the US struggles to enforce stock trading laws, enabling federal officials to invest in Amazon, Apple, Meta, and others affected by their agencies' work

Earlier Picks

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is working on PC Manager, a CCleaner-like app for Windows 10 and up with storage and startup app management, a way to quickly kill processes, and more
Jennifer Korn / CNN:
When researchers submitted 20 ads with “blatant” voting misinformation, TikTok approved 90%, Facebook approved a “significant number”, and YouTube approved zero
Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter and Elon Musk are preparing to complete his $44B buyout by the October 28 court-issued deadline, as talks between the two have turned cordial
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