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Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month — European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company's pitch to regulators
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| Molly White: |
A preview of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, which begins today with jury selection, the seven charges, key witnesses, the likely legal strategies, and more — Key witnesses and the likely legal strategies about to unfold in the historic case ahead. … Tomorrow, all eyes turn to New York …
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Michael Lewis depicts Sam Bankman-Fried as delusional in his new book, Going Infinite, but says SBF's explanations remain “irritatingly difficult to disprove” — “Going Infinite,” by Michael Lewis, offers a behind-the-scenes account of Mr. Bankman-Fried's rise and fall.
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| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
Apple starts requiring a Chinese government license to publish new apps on the China App Store, after China tightened its oversight over mobile apps in August — Apple (AAPL.O) has started requiring new apps to show proof of a Chinese government licence before their release on its China App Store … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
TikTok confirms the company is running a limited-scale test of an ad-free subscription plan, but only says the market is not the US and does not share the price — TikTok is exploring a new way to make money: The popular video app has kicked off a limited-scale test of a monthly subscription service that eliminates ads.
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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The FCC fines Dish Network $150,000 for failing to move its old EchoStar-7 satellite far enough away from others in use, the FCC's first space junk fine — The US government has issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth.
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Sources: Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the Hollywood actors strike ends, likely starting with the US and Canada — Company to become latest streamer to lift fees; Disney weighs launching new live-sports tier abroad| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 review: nice build with a 120Hz display, adaptive touchpad, and a unique hinge but short battery life and expensive at $2000 — Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Studio 2 has new chips, a new touchpad, and a very, very high price tag.
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| Nikki Ekstein / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on affordable prices, reliability, proper customer support, using AI for quality control, a loyalty program, and more — “We never fully built the foundation,” Brian Chesky says in a revelatory interview. “It had four pillars when we needed to have 10.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigation: several Taiwanese tech companies are secretly helping Huawei build chip plants in southern China, an unusual collaboration with political risks — - Critics slam Taiwan's government for inadequate China curbs — Taiwan has pledged to keep advanced tech from Chinese military
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| Steven Ehrlich / Forbes: |
Email: Chainalysis lays off ~150 employees, or 15%+ of its workforce, and plans to focus on government contracts; the company cut staff by ~5% in February 2023 — Chainalysis is laying off approximately 150 employees, or slightly more than 15% of its staff of 900, CEO Michael Gronager told employees …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
In a memo to staff, Campbell Brown, Meta's head of global media partnerships, says she's stepping down from the role in the fall as Meta backs away from news — Campbell Brown, the veteran TV anchor who led Meta's foray into news, is leaving the company, according to an internal note obtained by Axios.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Frec, which uses AI to let customers create their own investment strategies, comes out of stealth with $26.4M in Series A and seed funding led by Greylock — Emerging from stealth today, fintech startup Frec announced it has raised $26.4 million in seed and Series A funding led by Greylock …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn unveils several new AI features powered by OpenAI including a LinkedIn Learning coach, and marketing, sales, and recruiting tools with AI assistance — LinkedIn — the Microsoft-owned social platform for those networking for work or recruitment — is now 21 years old, an aeon in the world of technology.
More: Fast Company
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Cape Town-based Stitch, which lets businesses build, optimize, and scale financial products via its APIs, raised a $25M Series A extension led by Ribbit Capital — Open banking, in which traditional banks release their data via application programming interfaces (APIs) …
More: FinTech Global, FinTech Futures, Finextra, Techpoint Africa, and Ventureburn. LinkedIn: Jessica Manthey
| Wall Street Journal: |
US v. Google: Satya Nadella says Google cemented its search dominance via default search deals with Apple and he may have been overenthusiastic about ChatGPT — Satya Nadella says it will take more than ChatGPT to check Google's advantage in internet search — WASHINGTON—Google has used unfair tactics to hobble
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| Financial Times: |
Věra Jourová, one of two commissioners overseeing the enactment of EU's AI law, warns against being “paranoid” or too restrictive when regulating generative AI — European Commission vice-president says legislation should be based on ‘solid analysis’Sponsor Posts
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