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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The jury in Epic v. Google finds that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution and in-app billing services markets; Google plans to appeal — Three years after Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win.
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| Bloomberg: |
Google's legal defeat to Epic threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple that generates nearly $200B/year and accelerate the weakening of app store rules — - Jury decision poised to accelerate crumbling of business model — Case takes aim at app store commissions of up to 30%
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after over 20 years, following a collapse caused by new competitors, partner withdrawals, and more — The collapse ends years of attempts to revive the event that once dominated the industry — The Electronic Entertainment Expo …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple offers to let rivals access its tap-and-go payments systems for mobile wallets, to settle EU antitrust charges and avoid a possible hefty fine — Apple (AAPL.O) has offered to let rivals access its tap-and-go mobile payments systems used for mobile wallets …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple redesigns Apple TV in iOS 17.2 and tvOS 17.2 with a sidebar that unifies content; iTunes now redirects users searching for shows and movies to Apple TV — Starting Monday, the iTunes Store app on iPhone and iPad will redirect users searching for TV and film titles to the newly redesigned Apple TV app.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
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| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Stanford professor David Mills, who led SBF's defense as favor to his parents, says the FTX founder was “the worst person I've ever seen do a cross examination” — Stanford Law Professor David Mills, who led defense for FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried as favor to his parents, now fears ‘unwinnable’ case has ended their friendship.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Gina Raimondo says Nvidia “can, will, and should” sell commercial AI chips to China, but not advanced AI chips, and spoke to Jensen Huang about the US rules — The Biden administration is in discussions with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Ukraine's largest telco Kyivstar says it's mitigating a cyberattack that led to a “large-scale technical failure” denying millions internet and cell service — Kyivstar customers began complaining about network and internet outages in the early morning.| Financial Times: |
Emmanuel Macron warns the EU's AI Act risks hampering tech companies compared to US, UK, and China rivals, and says France is “neck and neck with the British” — French president argues landmark rules may leave European tech companies lagging rivals in US, UK and China
More: The Information, Associated Press, and CIO Dive
| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
A profile of Li Ying, a Chinese graduate who used his X account to tell the world about protests in 2022 and now lives in exile after losing his livelihood — Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year's protests. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance.
X: @liyuan6 and @lauraharth
| Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: |
Munich-based Tacto, which uses AI to help companies optimize their supply chains and cut costs by ~10%, raised €50M led by Sequoia and Index Ventures — Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures led a €50 million ($54 million) funding round for German startup Tacto Technology GmbH …
More: Tech.eu and Metaverse Post
| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Essential AI, co-founded by two co-authors of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, raised $56.5M led by March Capital and calls its tech Enterprise Brain — The startup was founded by two co-authors of a famous Google AI paper — Essential AI, an artificial intelligence startup founded … | Washington Post: |
Discord staff, moderators, and researchers say its rules and culture let a racist and antisemitic community flourish, after the April classified documents leak — After white supremacists used Discord to plan the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, company executives promised to clean up the service.
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat+ subscribers can now make and send AI generated images based on a text prompt and add pictures of friends into Dream, its generative AI selfie feature — Snapchat is releasing a few new AI powered features for Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday.Sponsor Posts
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