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August 3, 2023, 4:32 PM
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Shubham Kalia / Reuters:
Agence France-Presse sues X in Paris for refusing to discuss potential content distribution payments under a 2019 law; Elon Musk calls the lawsuit “bizarre”  —  said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in Paris against Elon Musk's X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Some experts say trolls who built businesses and media careers on Twitter have had to escalate their shock value tactics as “normal people” continue to leave
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Elon Musk says X plans to amend its creator payouts policy to take no cut until “payout exceeds $100K” and ask Tim Cook for Apple's 30% tax to apply after $100K
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo Q1: revenue up 50% YoY to ~$3.2B and net profit up 52% YoY to ~$1.3B, driven by The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the new Zelda, and Switch sales up 13.9%  —  - Nintendo reported revenue for the June quarter of 461.34 billion yen ($3.2 billion), rising 50% year-on-year.
Brian Fung / CNN:
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; the daily average time spent fell from 19 minutes per day at launch to 2.9 on August 1  —  Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, is struggling to retain users roughly a month after its highly publicized launch …
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Google expands its privacy tools, including to alert users when their personal info appears in Search and to remove consensual explicit images from Search  —  The company will soon blur explicit imagery in results by default too.  —  Google has announced several updates to Search aimed …
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:
IBM, HuggingFace, and NASA release an open-source geospatial foundation model to support new climate and Earth science AIs that can track deforestation and more  —  The open-source model will serve as the basis for future forest, crop and climate change-monitoring AI.
TechCrunch:
India restricts importing laptops, tablets, PCs, and servers, effective immediately; analysts say the move appears aimed at boosting local tech manufacturing  —  India restricted import of laptops, tablets, other personal computers and servers with immediate effect on Thursday …
CyberScoop:
Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity risk management company Tenable, says Microsoft partially fixed an Azure flaw that could let hackers access sensitive data  —  Cybersecurity veteran Amit Yoran says Microsoft has a culture of toxic obfuscation when it comes to addressing security threats.
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
AMD announces the Radeon Pro W7600 for $599, $50 cheaper than its predecessor, and the W7500 for $429, both based on its new Navi 33 GPU, available later in Q3  —  As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs …
Bloomberg:
Hong Kong grants its first crypto licenses to HashKey Exchange and OSL, legalizing retail trading of tokens as city officials seek to foster a global crypto hub  —  - Hong Kong is seeking to develop a digital-asset center  — City's pivot has received a guarded welcome from firms
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Kickstarter plans to require that creators disclose if their projects use AI tools or any training data if they intend to develop AI tech, starting on August 29  —  As generative AI enters the mainstream, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has struggled to formulate a policy that satisfies parties on all sides of the debate.
Wall Street Journal:
Internal doc: Meta sold 300K Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses between the device's September 2021 launch and February 2023, but the wearable only had ~27K MAUs  —  Company plans second generation as less than 10% of devices purchased are used monthly  —  The Ray-Ban smart glasses launched …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Patreon temporarily disables Payoneer payments after some creators were unable to access their earnings and some banks flagged subscriber payments as fraudulent  —  Two simultaneous issues with payments on Patreon are causing problems for both creators and fans.
GPU Utils:
An in-depth look at GPU supply and demand, particularly Nvidia H100s, how relying on TSMC can cause bottlenecks, H100 clients, Nvidia's allocations, and more  —  Introduction  —  As of August 2023, it seems AI might be bottlenecked by the supply of GPUs. … Is There Really A Bottleneck?
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised $2.3B in debt, collateralized by Nvidia chips; CoreWeave has raised $421M in equity so far in 2023  —  Specialized cloud provider CoreWeave has raised $2.3 billion in a debt facility led by Magnetar Capital and Blackstone (BX.N) …
Claire Moses / New York Times:
After Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof declared bankruptcy, owners of its $2,000+ bikes worry about replacing proprietary parts and losing app-enabled bike functions  —  VanMoof's sleek electric bikes attracted fans, but the Dutch company's demise has left owners unable to get repairs and worried that app-enabled functions may stop working.
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New York Times:
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New York Times:
Fox News pulling Maria Bartiromo off the air reflects a growing willingness to break from Trump on certain issues, following its $787.5M Dominion settlement

Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
As thousands of authors await their cut from Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement, some say they are getting left out amid competing book ownership claims

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Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Miami-based Lula, which offers insurance products to car rental, trucking, and logistic companies, raised a $35.5M Series B, after an $18M Series A in July 2021
Parth M.N. / Wired:
India's months-long internet shutdown in the state of Manipur from May 4 did not stop ethnic violence and instead provided cover for murders, rapes, and arson
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Earlier Picks

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
The UK unveils its National Semiconductor Strategy advisory panel; tech minister Paul Scully says the government prefers chip design over subsidizing chipmaking
Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters:
Microsoft says Russia-linked hackers are behind “highly targeted” social engineering attacks affecting fewer than 40 global organizations since late May 2023
Bloomberg:
India moves ahead with a 28% online gaming tax, effective from October 1, despite 100+ companies and investors like Tiger Global and Peak XV asking for changes
Reuters:
Kenya's interior ministry suspended the local activities of Worldcoin while government agencies assess public safety risks; local media reports 350K+ signed up
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
The IRS says that, by 2025, US taxpayers will be able to file every major tax form online, and plans to digitize all paper returns, hastening refunds by weeks
Emilia David / The Verge:
Meta releases AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that lets users create music and sounds via text prompts, consisting of MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec models
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