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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple aims for iPhone 15 Pro Max to make up 35%-40% of iPhone 15 shipments, optimistic about the phone's exclusive periscope lens camera as a selling point — Apple is aiming for the highest-end iPhone 15 Pro Max to account for roughly 35-40% of initial shipments for the iPhone 15 series …
More: Ming-Chi Kuo, Ming-Chi Kuo, Livemint, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, Insider, TweakTown, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Supercharged, and iClarified
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Omdia: Apple shipped 26.5M iPhone 14 Pro Max phones in H1 2023, the most out of any model from any manufacturer; Apple had all four of the top-shipping models — - Last year, the iPhone 13 was the bestselling device on the market, indicating consumers were still buying flagship devices but at the entry level rather than the top end.
More: Omdia, The Indian Express, Wccftech, BGR, Coinspeaker, Android Headlines, Vigour Times, and TechSpot
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
The US SEC charges Impact Theory with offering unregistered securities by selling NFTs, a first; the LA-based entertainment company agreed to pay a $6.1M fine — Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission — In an enforcement action announced on Monday …
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches GPT-4-powered ChatGPT Enterprise, with improved privacy, performance, and data analysis features; pricing is “dependent on each company's usage” — Seeking to capitalize on ChatGPT's viral success, OpenAI today announced the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise …
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LinkedIn: Sandro Gianella, OpenAI, Nicolai Skabo, and Adam Goldberg
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Eugene Kim / Insider: |
Meeting: Andy Jassy told employees who refuse to return to the office “at least three days a week” that “it's probably not going to work out for you at Amazon” — - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who disagree with the return-to-office mandate that it's “not going to work out for you.”
More: The Verge, Seattle Business Journal, New York Post, Digiday, Bloomberg, and Livemint
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Forums: Hacker News, r/antiwork, and Beehaw
| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Google announces new automation starters and actions for its Google Home app, plus new features for its Home script editor, which is available in Public Preview — Google Home is getting smarter. In a pair of blog posts published today, Google announced a bunch of new automation starters …
More: Google Nest Community, Google Nest Community, PhoneArena, SamMobile, SlashGear, Android Authority, Android Central, 9to5Google, and 9to5Google. Mastodon: @cassidy@mastodon …
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details its Xeon chips Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids set for 2024, claiming Sierra Forest has a 2.4x higher performance per watt than fourth-gen Xeons — Intel shares P- and E-Core architectures at Hot Chips 2023. — At Hot Chips 2023, Intel unveiled the first deep-dive details …
More: Intel, AnandTech, The Register, Guru3D.com, HotHardware, Wccftech, ServeTheHome, SiliconANGLE, and Phoronix
| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: DCG reaches an in-principle deal with Genesis creditors to resolve the bankruptcy claims, estimates recoveries of 70%-90% for unsecured creditors — The plan could result in the recoveries of 70% to 90% in USD equivalent for unsecured creditors and 65% to 90% recovery on an in-kind basis.
More: Reuters and Watcher Guru
| Vlad Turiceanu / Windows Report: |
Doc: Lenovo plans to unveil a €799 Legion Go gaming handheld, with an 8.8" 144Hz 2560×1600 display and 16GB of RAM, and €499 Legion AR glasses, on September 1 — Lenovo's Legion Go has a hefty price, but maybe it's worth it — An official document confirms the Lenovo Legion Go rumors we've shared so far
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X: @evleaks, @retrogamecorps, @evleaks, and @carygolomb
Forums: r/Games, r/LenovoLegion, and r/ROGAlly
| Rebecca Klar / The Hill: |
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others are expected to attend Senator Schumer's first AI Insight Forum on September 13 — The top executives at tech companies, including the world's richest man Elon Musk, are among the confirmed guests …
More: Axios, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Seeking Alpha, Livemint, and Bloomberg
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Docs: Google plans to sell mapping API access to companies making products that use solar, energy, and air quality data, targeting ~$100M in revenue in year one — - Google is planning to sell new mapping APIs that would allow companies to build products that use energy and environmental data.
More: NBC 7 San Diego, Engadget, The Keyword, The Verge, and Google Cloud Blog
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments — CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support …
More: VentureBeat and Pixel Envy
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