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Ariel Bogle / The Guardian:
NYT, CNN, and some other news outlets block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl Foundation's CCBot  —  Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg:
Mastercard and Binance plan to end their card partnership in Latin America and Middle East on September 22; Visa stopped issuing Binance cards in Europe in July  —  - Visa halts issuing new Binance Card while Mastercard ends pact  — Crypto exchange under legal and regulatory challenges globally
Wall Street Journal:
US Treasury proposes new rules treating crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report crypto gains to the IRS, starting in 2026  —  Long-delayed regulations would treat crypto platforms more like brokers who handle stocks and mutual funds
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop:
Microsoft researchers say Flax Typhoon, a hacking group with suspected links to the Chinese government, is actively targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan  —  A group dubbed Flax Typhoon has targeted “dozens” of Taiwanese organizations, according to new research from Microsoft.
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Citizen suspends sales of its $350 CZ Smart smartwatch, launched on May 1; review units had extensive issues, including freezing and inaccurate tracking data  —  The second-generation CZ Smart launched a few months ago.  Both the company and reviewers have found serious technical issues.
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on a streaming version of ESPN, perhaps helping with distribution and taking a minority stake  —  Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, said people familiar with the matter.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian instant grocery startup Zepto raised a $200M Series E led by StepStone at a $1.4B valuation, taking its funding to $560M, India's first unicorn of 2023  —  Instant grocery delivery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion, it said Friday …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its “all the space you need” storage plan to 5TB, after some abused the tier by pooling storage, reselling, and more  —  - Company says some abused ‘all the space you need’ policy  — Majority of users will see storage capped at 5 terabytes
David Jeans / Forbes:
NYC-based digital lender Better.com closed down 94% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday after a SPAC merger  —  Once valued at $7.7 billion, Vishal Garg's SoftBank-backed company faced a cratering stock price and no plans for profitability as it went public Thursday via a SPAC merger.  —  W

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Committee to Protect Journalists:
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Variety:
The WGA, which routinely opposes media mergers, says the Netflix-WBD deal must be blocked, and the Producers and Directors guilds express concern over the deal

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

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Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit:
Toronto-based Ideogram raised a $16.5M seed led by a16z and Index Ventures and launches a beta of Ideogram AI, its generative AI-based text-to-image product
Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $446M, vs. $406M est., net loss up 11% YoY to $206M, and GMV up 25% YoY to $5.5B, vs. $5.3B est.; AFRM jumps 20%+

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Meta rolls out its Threads web app to all users, featuring an app bar at the top with the same five tabs as in the mobile app; tapping Home refreshes the Feed
Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal:
Shein acquires ~33% of Forever 21 parent company Sparc and Sparc takes a Shein minority stake, letting Shein sell Forever 21 items and operate inside its stores
Brendan Case / Bloomberg:
Walmart partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials
Nathan McAlone / Insider:
OnlyFans reports revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B in the FY to November 30, 2022, profit up 24% YoY to $404M, creators up 47% YoY to 3.2M, and users spent $5.6B
Emilia David / The Verge:
Meta debuts Code Llama, which can generate code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
To comply with the EU's DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more info on EU targeted ads, give researchers more access, and more
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Apple voices its support for California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote 38-0 in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote
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