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Associated Press:
Research: ChatGPT uses an estimated 500ml of water for every five to 50 prompts; Microsoft disclosed the company's water use spiked 34% YoY in 2022, Google 20%  —  The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.  But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta plans to begin training an LLM in Q1 2024 on its own infrastructure that it hopes will be roughly as capable as OpenAI's GPT-4  —  Parent of Facebook and Instagram wants artificial-intelligence system to be as capable as OpenAI's most advanced model  —  Platforms is setting its sights on OpenAI.
Max Tani / Semafor:
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users suggests X is throttling posts linking to the NYT, with “weekly average shares per article” down ~75% from July's peak  —  X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users' access to The New York Times.
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
X sues California over AB 587, arguing the law forcing social networks to detail their moderation interferes with X's constitutionally protected editorial calls
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
An expected high-end iPhone price increase and features like iPhone 15 Pro Max's periscope lens show Apple is getting more aggressive with its premium strategy  —  Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 15 on Tuesday, alongside updated watches and AirPods.  And once again, the company …
Molly White / Web3 is Going Just Great:
Vitalik Buterin's X account was hacked to promote a crypto scam, leading to an estimated $650K+ of assets being stolen; the tweet was deleted within 20 minutes  —  The Twitter account belonging to Vitalik Buterin, inventor and effective leader of the Ethereum project, was hacked to promote a crypto scam.
Walter Isaacson / CNBC:
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips  —  The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12.
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Dennis Austin, PowerPoint's principal developer who continued to lead the presentation software's team until he retired in 1996, died on September 1 at age 76  —  The program was the digital successor of the overhead projector.  It became one of the most ubiquitous and scorned programs of modern office life.
Brenda Goh / Reuters:
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group CEO Daniel Zhang steps down, after assuming the role in June 2023; Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu becomes the unit's acting chair and CEO  —  China's Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Sunday that Daniel Zhang will step down from its cloud business, in a surprise move …
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes  —  Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Instacart plans to target its IPO at roughly $8.6B to $9.3B valuation, well below the $39B valuation the company had in March 2021  —  The grocery-delivery company aims for $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion, down from $39 billion in 2021.

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen delays the release of The Gauge, its monthly snapshot of broadcast, cable, and streaming consumption, by a week; it will likely show a streaming decline

Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Over 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday; seven states joined the DOJ to settle with the ticketing giant

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCUniversal will no longer produce first-run syndicated TV programming, ending shows including Access Hollywood, which has been in production for 30 years

More News

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Some Wyze security camera owners report that they were briefly able to see feeds from cameras they didn't own or recognize; Wyze blames “a web caching issue”
Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
How privacy campaigners and tech executives, like Signal president Meredith Whittaker, teamed up to challenge the UK's Online Safety Bill encryption crackdown

Earlier Picks

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Maltese politician Alex Agius Saliba, who led the EU's legislation to make USB-C the standard, forcing Apple to replace the iPhone's Lightning port
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google says North Korea-backed hackers are again targeting security researchers via a zero-day exploit; this still-unfixed flaw is in a popular software package
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple no longer plans to launch MacBooks with an M3 chip “before the end of this year”; other reports point to M3 Macs as soon as October 2023
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators type in prompts to generate virtual environments, get coding help, and more
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
The IRS starts using AI to investigate complex cases of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar partnerships like hedge funds, private equity groups, and law firms
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