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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more — Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators enter prompts to generate virtual environments, get help with coding, and more — Roblox announced a new conversational AI assistant at its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) that can help creators …
More: Roblox Blog, Decrypt, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, and Mashable
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple no longer plans to launch any MacBook models with an M3 chip “before the end of this year” — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has bad news for Apple fans hoping to see a lineup of M3-powered Macs this year. According to Kuo, Apple is no longer planning to release …
More: The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, TweakTown, Trusted Reviews, Wccftech, BGR, iLounge, and Supercharged
| Alan Rappeport / New York Times: |
The IRS says it has started using AI to investigate complex cases of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar partnerships, large hedge funds, PE groups, and others — The tax agency is opening examinations into large hedge funds, private equity groups, real estate investors and law firms.
More: Internal Revenue Service, Gizmodo, The Verge, Associated Press, and Axios
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| Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits — Thodex was one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing.
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| Peter Kiefer / The Ankler: |
Sources: Apple spent $5M on the film rights for Michael Lewis' book about Sam Bankman-Fried; at least eight Hollywood projects on SBF are in the works so far — Apple paid $5M for Michael Lewis' book, a Nanette Burstein doc is underway, and a who'll-finish-first race is afoot as the crypto con projects pile up| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push — Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks — Spotify plans to test …
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| Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram's tech stack, handling Threads' unexpectedly intense launch, and more — The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X is showing some ads in users' Following feeds without an “Ad” label, indicated only by clicking on the three-dot menu, which could attract the FTC's attention — X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been caught running unlabeled ads in users' Following feeds …
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, and Mashable
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| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Similarweb: ChatGPT's worldwide desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following ~10% drops from each of the previous two months — OpenAI's ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X updates its TOS to ban scraping and crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop companies training AI models on its data — Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Ant Group unveils a financial LLM for wealth management and insurance services, powering two tools: Zhixiaobao, for consumers, and Zhixiaozhu, for professionals — - Firm uses ChatGPT-like tech to power two financial apps — Joins race against Baidu, Tencent for artificial intelligence
More: PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Ant Financial Services Group, Metaverse Post, and Finextra
| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei's mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources say the phones are 5G devices — The Mate 60 Pro+ and Mate X5 are likely based on Huawei's locally-made chip. — Following Huawei's surprise launch …
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
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| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus spyware — Apple released software updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers said were used …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SAP acquires Germany-based startup LeanIX, which sells tools that map out companies' IT architecture, sources say for $1.2B+; LeanIX had raised almost $120M — As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company's ability to modernize … | Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
X sues California over AB 587, which requires social networks to share moderation rules, arguing it interferes with X's editorial calls protected as free speech — Elon Musk's X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google releases its relevance and measurement APIs for Privacy Sandbox in general availability, making them available in Chrome without browser flags or trials — Google's Chrome browser is now one important step closer to its goal of phasing out third-party cookies by the end of 2024.
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