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Apple's livestream of the “Wonderlust” event at Apple Park — Join us for a special Apple Event on September 12 at 10 a.m. PT. Set a reminder now, and we'll notify you before showtime.
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| The Verge: |
A live blog of Apple's “Wonderlust” event, where four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9, and more are expected — We're on the ground in Cupertino for the launch of Apple's next phones and watches — and the big, long-awaited change from Lightning to USB-C.
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| New York Times: |
A live blog of the US et al v. Google trial, as the DOJ argues that the company illegally protected its internet search monopoly via smartphone maker deals — Here is the latest on the Google antitrust trial. Opening statements are underway in a major antitrust case against Google …
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Intel announces Thunderbolt 5, offering up to 120 Gbps bandwidth and support for DisplayPort 2.1, USB v4, USB 3 20G, and PCIe Gen4, and up to 240W charging — Thunderbolt 5 offers up to 3x the speed over Thunderbolt 4 — Intel has revealed its newest iteration of the Thunderbolt technology.
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a button to the app's home screen that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K sellers — The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app's users in the U.S., hoping to add a major new revenue stream.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
As some supposedly “leaked” Harry Styles songs are being sold on Discord, fans and AI-analysis companies struggle to determine if the clips are AI-generated — Discord communities within the Harry Styles and One Direction fandom are tearing themselves apart over “leaked snippets” … | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: in a first, Apple plans to release its India-built iPhone 15 in the country and others on the global debut day; the majority will be built in China — - Devices from India to debut at same time as China-made ones — IPhone 15 marks a milestone for India's electronics ambitions
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that prioritizes matching female and nonbinary drivers and riders, falling back to men when no other people are nearby — The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers. — Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Investor video: Arm CEO Rene Haas pitches a pivot toward complex design work on specific products, a “purpose-built approach” to address clients' urgent needs — - SoftBank-owned chip designer has shifted its strategy — Arm stock offering is set to get underway later this week
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| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
How Finland-based AI startup Metroc, which helps construction companies find projects, pays prisoners €1.54/hour to label data, with widespread public support — In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces a service that lets its 2M merchants deliver inventory directly to physical retail stores and warehouses, rolling out broadly later in 2023 — - Service brings inventory to stores instead of shoppers' homes … Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service …
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| Financial Times: |
An in-depth look at how Google's Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language — Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on 25 years of Google, competition in AI, ChatGPT in Bing, DeepMind and Google Brain, AI chips, staff's bureaucracy complaints, and more — The tech giant is 25 years old. In a chatbot war. On trial for antitrust. But its CEO says Google is good for 25 more.
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at the Huawei Kirin 9000S, the impact on Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek, SMIC's 7nm and future 5nm chips, and what the West can do to limit China's chips — Huawei, SMIC, 7nm, H800, Domestic AI Capabilities, ASML, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Apple, RF Capabilities, Potential Sanctions
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Bio: before buying Twitter, Elon Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed money, Musk would buy Dorsey's stock at the $54.20/share takeover price — Jack Dorsey had second thoughts about supporting Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, so Musk made Dorsey a secret offer he couldn't refuse …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
The White House says eight more tech companies, including Salesforce, Nvidia, Palantir, IBM, and Stability AI, signed its voluntary AI pledge, for 15 in total — 15 companies, ranging from Photoshop creator Adobe to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, have now taken the voluntary commitments
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| Associated Press: |
MGM Resorts says a “cybersecurity issue” that began on September 10 is “affecting some of the company's systems” at casino and hotel properties across the US — A “cybersecurity issue” led to the shutdown of some casino and hotel computer systems …
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Thierry Breton, as the EU prepares to enforce the DSA and DMA, giving the bloc unprecedented regulatory power over big American tech companies — Thierry Breton is a proponent of more regulation — and rules that boost EU companies. … The 68-year-old Frenchman was suppressing a smile … | Rachel Graf / The Information: |
Sources describe Apollo's Yahoo turnaround efforts, including layoffs, asset sales, and new partnerships; Yahoo is on pace to generate $7B in 2023 gross revenue — When speaking about the company he inherited in September 2021, Jim Lanzone is remarkably blunt.| Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: |
The Internet Archive appeals a US judge's March 2023 decision that favors publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving … | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
MLCommons' MLPerf benchmark, based on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles: Nvidia's H100s perform best, followed by Intel's Gaudi2 at ~10% slower — An artificial intelligence benchmark group called MLCommons unveiled the results on Monday of new tests that determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware can run AI models.
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