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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| 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.| 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 — - Project boosts aerial range capabilities for the retailer — Service will be offered at two stores in the Dallas area
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LinkedIn: Leah Debes, Cosimo Leipold, and Phillip J. Wallace
| Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based Ideogram raised a $16.5M seed led by a16z and Index Ventures and launches a public beta of its generative AI-based text-to-image product — a16z, Canadian AI expert Raquel Urtasun, Github co-founder Tom Preston-Werner invested. — Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| 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| 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 — Online fashion giant invests in company that operates retailer, paving way to sell its products — Shein and Forever 21 may soon be fast-fashion friends.| 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.
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| 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 — Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said.
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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 — Following Tuesday's announcement, Meta is widely rolling out the Threads web app, and it offers a pretty straightforward translation of the mobile experience.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Ikigai Labs, which offers a no-code generative AI service built using large graphical models for tabular data, raised a $25M Series A led by Premji Invest — Organizations are awash in data, but struggle with a host of challenges to actually use, organize and analyze that data.| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
How YouTube plans to integrate creators into its NFL Sunday Ticket programming, as the company looks to be a “one-stop shop for multiple types of video content” — College football's brightest stars, dressed in their snappiest suits, assembled beneath gray skies and the beaux-arts grandeur … | Morgan Sung / TechCrunch: |
Reddit launches the “Mod Helper Program”, a tiered system that rewards moderators with trophies and flairs for helping other moderators in r/ModSupport — Reddit is launching the “Mod Helper Program” to reward moderators who offer helpful advice to other moderators, along with an updated moderator help center.
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| Katherine Ross / Blockworks: |
The US DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm, of Washington, and Roman Semenov, a Russian national, with money laundering and sanctions violations — The inclusion of the Tornado Cash co-founder on the list marks an escalation of the US government's previous investigations into the crypto mixer
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency, r/ethtrader, and r/CryptoCurrency
| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
A US judge dismissed an RNC lawsuit alleging Google's spam filters illegally suppressed their emails, saying the RNC hadn't shown that Google acted in bad faith — The court dismissed claims that the company unfairly suppressed the committee's viewpoints. — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed … | 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 5%+ — Company ‘demonstrated that the business can continue to expand profitably even in a high interest rate environment,’ CFO says| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M — As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) … | 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 — Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work … | VideoCardz.com: |
MSI shares an unlisted video confirming Intel's upcoming 14th Gen CPUs will see no major core count upgrades and will be 3% faster on average than 13th Gen CPUs — MSI unimpressed with 14th Gen Core series — MSI made a mistake of sharing an unlisted video which has now leaked out.
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