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Google refreshes Android's logo and releases updates to its mobile app and services, including its “At a Glance” widget and its visual accessibility app Lookout — Google is releasing a grab bag of updates to its mobile apps and services, including an At a Glance Google Assistant widget …
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Threads: @google. X: @mishaalrahman, @android, @mishaalrahman, @backlon, @mishaalrahman, and @mishaalrahman
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out a new Xbox dashboard that lets users stream Xbox gameplay one-way to anyone on Discord, a tool for reporting Xbox voice chat clips, and more — Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox dashboard for September that includes the ability to stream your Xbox gameplay to Discord friends …
More: Xbox Wire, PCMag, Windows Central, Engadget, Dexerto, IGN, Neowin, BGR, GameSpot, KitGuru, Thurrott, Gameranx, TrueAchievements, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Lifewire, Pure Xbox, and OnMSFT.com
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says visionOS beta will include the App Store this fall and, by default, iPad and iPhone apps will be published automatically on the Vision Pro app store — As developers continue to work on bringing their apps to Vision Pro, Apple has shared a new update via its website with details on the Vision Pro's App Store.
More: MacRumors, Apple Developer, The Verge, AppleInsider, iClarified, and MacStories
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple's A&R label Platoon — More than 80% of the music we listen to today is delivered over streaming, according to figures from last year.
More: BIS Records, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Macworld, CNBC, Gramophone, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Neowin, The Verge, and iMore
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| Meg Kinnard / Associated Press: |
AGs in all 50 US states urge Congress to study how AI can be used to exploit kids, including via AI-made pornography, and pass legislation to guard against it — The top prosecutors in all 50 states are urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence can be used to exploit children through pornography … | Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Filing: SoftBank aims to raise up to $4.87B by offering 95.5M Arm shares priced around $47-$51, which would set a ~$52B valuation and mark 2023's biggest US IPO — SoftBank Group's (9984.T) Arm is aiming to raise up to $4.87 billion in the chip designer's U.S. initial public offering, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries — The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the UK, Germany and France.
More: Meta, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, NBC 7 San Diego, Thurrott, Ghacks, The Verge, Neowin, PCMag, Financial Times, London Evening Standard, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, and OnMSFT.com
X: @mgeist, @glenngabe, and @jakubkrupa
| Financial Times: |
Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as the EU's competition chief to run for a job at the EIB, and justice commissioner Didier Reynders will now assume the role — Belgian politician appointed while incumbent Margrethe Vestager targets top job at European Investment Bank
More: European Commission, Thurrott, Bloomberg, and Politico
X: @vestager, @satariano, @samuelstolton, @johnnyryan, and @verajourova
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Spotify's $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows aren't profitable, exclusives don't work, cutting staff and originals, and more — The prospect of podcast riches led to aggressive investments in celebrity deals and original programming for what appeared a sky's-the-limit media frontier
More: MIT Technology Review, On Substack, Podnews, Insider, The Verge, Engadget, MobileSyrup, Neowin, and Bloomberg
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth profile of OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, CTO Mira Murati, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones to an AGI that is safe for humanity — The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything.
More: Longreads, Cryptopolitan, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @katiedrumm, @scottnover, @austincarr, and @stevenlevy
Forums: r/artificial and r/singularity
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: the FTC plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon later this month, after Amazon offered no concessions in an August meeting with FTC officials — E-commerce giant's lawyers offered no concessions in talks with agency officials last month — officials haven't offered concessions … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources detail Sequoia's most tumultuous 12 months: spinning off its highly profitable Chinese arm, its FTX and Twitter bets souring, and Michael Moritz leaving — Silicon Valley's premier venture firm undergoes ‘profound change’ after China splits and bets on FTX and Twitter sour
X: @bondhack, @georgenhammond, and @refsrc
| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Antenna: MLS Season Pass had 110K+ US signups on July 21, the day of Messi's first MLS match, up from 6,143 on July 20; July was TV+'s best signup month in 2023 — Soccer superstar attracts over 110,000 sign-ups to MLS Season Pass on day of first game — Soccer superstar Lionel Messi helped drive a surge in U.S. subscriptions to
More: Axios, Variety, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Fox Business, PhoneArena, Tom's Guide, Supercharged, iLounge, The Messenger, MacDailyNews, The Streamable, and 9to5Mac
| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Intel and Tower Semiconductor say the Israeli contract chipmaker plans to invest $300M in Intel's New Mexico factory, after their $5.4B deal collapsed in August — Intel (INTC.O) will offer foundry services to Tower Semiconductor (TSEM.TA) in a new deal that will see the Israeli contract …
More: Intel, AnandTech, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Register, Tom's Hardware, Globes Online, Oregonian, CRN, Phoronix, and TechSpot
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Amazon will now charge $1.99 per delivery for in-garage deliveries that used to be free if the date is outside a customer's designated weekly “Amazon Day” — / Now there's an extra $1.99 fee to have Amazon drop packages off in your garage outside of your specified ‘Amazon Day.’| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
TikTok opens its first European data center, in Ireland, after announcing the project in August 2020, and plans to finish the migration of user data by Q4 2024 — It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially …
More: BBC, The Guardian, and Sky News
| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
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X: @1br0wn, @carolinegreer, and @theobertram
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