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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google announces AI features coming soon to Meet, including expanding Duet AI to take notes, mid-meeting summaries, and “attending” meetings on a user's behalf — If Google Meet's new AI tools are as good as advertised, you might never need to pay attention to another meeting again — or even show up at all.
More: Google Workspace Blog, PCMag, Android Police, Engadget, CNBC, Forbes, ZDNet, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Google Cloud Blog, Constellation Research, and ITPro. X: @quinnypig
| Bloomberg: |
Google adds AI tools from others, like Meta's Llama 2 and Anthropic's Claude 2, to Cloud, expands Duet AI in Workspace, partners with Fox Sports, and more — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Chat with a new design, Duet AI tools, “huddles” for audio and video calls, capacity for 500K people in group channels, and more — Google is making some big changes to Google Chat, its answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
More: Google Workspace Blog, The Verge, Android Police, Thurrott, Neowin, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, and OnMSFT.com
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Duet AI for Workspace will cost $30/month/user for enterprise, consumer pricing will come in the coming months, and Workspace has 10M paying users — Back at I/O in May, Google announced that Duet AI would be the brand for generative AI in Workspace (and Cloud).| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple aims for the iPhone 15 Pro Max to make up 35% to 40% of iPhone 15 shipments, optimistic about its 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 …
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| 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.
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Meta removes the largest Chinese influence campaign to date; the campaign spans thousands of accounts, and many are still active on TikTok, X, and Reddit — The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
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| CoinDesk: |
A US appeals court rules that the SEC must “vacate” and review its rejection of Grayscale's bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an ETF — A federal appeals court ordered the SEC to “vacate” its rejection of the trust issuer's bid to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TechCrunch acquires Connie Loizos' media startup StrictlyVC and names her as TC's EIC and GM; longtime EIC Matthew Panzarino will remain an adviser through 2023 — TechCrunch, the digital tech and business publication owned by Yahoo, has acquired StrictlyVC, a media startup, from longtime Silicon Valley journalist Connie Loizos.
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| 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.”
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
In a first, the SEC charges Impact Theory with offering unregistered securities by selling NFTs; 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube lets creators take an educational training course when they receive a warning, which YouTube lifts if they don't violate the same policy within 90 days — YouTube announced this morning a change to its Community Guidelines that impact creators who break its rules.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces a September 12 event at 10am PT at Apple Park titled “Wonderlust”, where four iPhone 15 models, the Apple Watch Series 9, and more are expected — Apple today announced plans to hold a special event on Tuesday, September 12 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
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| Associated Press: |
An OHCHR investigation finds 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams” — The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches a new native macOS app via its website, coming soon to the App Store, that lets eight users join video calls and 32 users join audio calls — WhatsApp said that it has launched a new native app for Mac today. The app will allow users to participate in video calls …
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| Reuters: |
Similarweb and Data.ai: Meta blocking news in Canada has had almost no impact on Canadians' Facebook usage, supporting Meta's claim that news holds little value — Meta's (META.O) decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians' usage of Facebook … | Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Google unveils SynthID, which embeds an invisible digital “watermark” directly into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images — The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Snap begins rolling out Dreams, a take on the generative AI selfies that Lensa and others have popularized, for $1 per eight-photo pack, after a first free pack — After releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams.
More: TechCrunch, Dexerto, Adweek, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Neowin, SlashGear, Wccftech, and Snap Newsroom
| 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 … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon confirms testing increasing the free shipping minimum to $35 from $25 for non-Prime members; Walmart also has a $35 minimum for non-Walmart+ members — - Amazon is testing a $35 free shipping minimum for people who aren't members of the company's Prime loyalty program.
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