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September 18, 2023, 9:50 AM
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John Dickerson / CBS News:
An interview with Tim Cook on Apple's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, the Vision Pro, return to the office, why Apple still advertises on X, and more  —  In Brown County, Texas - flat, dry, near the geographical center of the state - Apple has invested in a joint venture to power 100,000 homes with clean energy.
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Q&A with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman on LLMs becoming more controllable, “interactive” AI after generative AI, AI regulation being achievable, and more  —  DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat.
Elad Gil / Elad Blog:
The US should not push to regulate most aspects of AI, letting the tech mature for positive uses, to avoid favoring incumbents and forcing the industry overseas  —  There have been multiple call to regulate AI.  It is too early to do so.  —  [While I was finalizing this post …
Wall Street Journal:
How Spotify and other streaming services have transformed the sound of music: songs are shorter, albums are longer, and artists collaborate more across genres  —  To succeed on Spotify and other services, songs are getting shorter, albums are getting longer, and artists are collaborating across genres.
Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times:
Analysis: Arm's $5B IPO generated $84M in fees for services firms including Deloitte, the most a company spent on fees since Axa in 2018 and over 7x the average  —  Non-underwriting costs of flotation are the highest Wall Street has seen for five years, according to FT analysis
Elliptic:
North Korea-tied Lazarus Group stole nearly $240M in crypto in the past 104 days, ramping up hacks and shifting focus from decentralized to centralized services  —  The elite North Korean hacking group Lazarus appears to have recently ramped up its operations, conducting a confirmed four attacks against crypto entities since June 3rd.
Associated Press:
In a long X post, French President Macron backtracks on saying video games had “intoxicated” young rioters and declares games are an “integral part of France”  —  French President Emmanuel Macron is extending an olive branch to video gamers after previously linking computer games …

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From Mediagazer

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Politico names Jonathan Greenberger as its editor-in-chief, effective May 1, succeeding co-founder John Harris; Greenberger joined Politico as EVP in 2024

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Beehiiv plans to launch a podcasting program in the coming days and is privately courting podcasters on Substack and elsewhere as founding members

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Peter Alexander, who worked as NBC News' chief White House correspondent and co-anchor of the Saturday edition of Today show, leaves the network

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Earlier Picks

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
One year after Ethereum's Merge, developers approve a change to slow down staking, which has emerged as one of the few reliable ways to earn returns in crypto
New York Times:
TikTok's US staff complain about a new internal app to track office attendance; TikTok requires most staff to be in the office three times per week from October
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, whose OpenAI-or-bust strategy rankled some staff who found their AI projects pushed aside and their resources curtailed
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
A look at SBF's ~250 pages of reflections and self-justifications while under house arrest, which signal how he may defend himself at his October criminal trial
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