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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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
| 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.| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
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| 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, Press Start, BigTechWire, BGR, GameSpot, KitGuru, Engadget, Thurrott, IGN, Windows Central, Gameranx, TrueAchievements, Neowin, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Lifewire, Dexerto, Pure Xbox, and OnMSFT.com
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Forums: r/xboxone and r/XboxSeriesX
| RT Watson / The Block: |
MetaMask says its customers in the US, UK, and parts of Europe can now convert ether for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function — - Company announces customers can now convert crypto for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function. — MetaMask customers that choose …
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| 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.
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| 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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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
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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 … | Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: |
Sundar Pichai reflects on Google turning 25, says search is “still our biggest moonshot” and that AI will be the biggest tech shift “we see in our lifetimes” — Editor's note: Google will officially celebrate our 25th birthday later this month.
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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.
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X: @mgeist, @glenngabe, and @jakubkrupa
| 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
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LinkedIn: Chris Erwin and David Harreveld
| 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
| 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 …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, The Verge, and Cord Cutters News
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Email: Genesis Global Trading plans to close its US-focused spot crypto trading platform on September 18 and all remaining open accounts by September 30's end — The subsidiary had escaped parent company Genesis Global's lending-induced bankruptcy. — Genesis' U.S.-focused spot crypto trading business … | 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: Cryptopolitan and Longreads
X: @katiedrumm, @scottnover, @austincarr, and @stevenlevy
Forums: r/artificial and r/singularity
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Harmonya, which offers software to help retail and consumer packaged goods companies decipher their product data, raised a $20M Series A led by Bright Pixel — Like other companies, retailers and consumer packaged goods companies have a lot of data accumulated about their products and consumers.
More: CTech, Jerusalem Post, SiliconANGLE, and FinSMEs
| 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
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