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Apple settles with the EU over Apple Pay and avoids potential fines by agreeing to open NFC access on iOS to third-party wallet developers for free for a decade — - EU accepts Apple pledge to open up payment tech to rivals — Firm still faces mounting EU antitrust scrutiny in other areas
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IDC estimates that Apple will sell under 500K Vision Pro units in 2024, and the headset's international launch will offset a 75% QoQ drop in US sales in Q3 2024 — - The pricey headset's US sales are expected to plummet — A more affordable model in a year's time should help momentum
More: Fortune, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Neowin, BGR, and Mobile World Live
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
The US SEC drops its investigation into Paxos over its BUSD stablecoin, after sending Paxos a Wells notice in February 2023 — As the crypto industry continues its calls for regulatory clarity, a glaring question has been whether stablecoins, typically digital assets pegged to and backed by the U.S. dollar … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An international study of 642 websites and mobile apps offering subscription services finds ~76% with at least one possible dark pattern and ~67% with multiple — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, along with two other international consumer protection networks, announced on Thursday …
More: Federal Trade Commission, icpen.org, The Verge, GIGAZINE, Home (public), TechSpot, Engadget, The Record, and ICPEN
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Helsing, which makes AI tools for defense, raised a €450M Series C led by General Catalyst, a source says at a €4.95B valuation, taking its funding to €769M — - Company formed in 2021 has now raised nearly €770 million — Helsing will open entity in Estonia as part of Baltic push
More: TechCrunch, Axios, Sifted, Helsing, TNW, The Decoder, and Perspectives
| Brady Dale / Axios: |
US prosecutors say crypto exchange BitMEX pled guilty to one count of violating the Bank Secrecy Act by not having an adequate AML program from 2015 to 2020 — - U.S. agencies are paying attention now, and they are aggressively reviewing those early practices, as we've seen again and again recently.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
SpaceX releases its $599 Starlink Mini portable dish to anyone in the US, available with its $150/month Regional and $50/month Mini Roam services — SpaceX's Starlink Mini dish — which Elon Musk says “will change the world” — is now available to anyone in the US.
More: ZDNet, Engadget, PCMag, and Notebookcheck
| Lauren Smiley / Wired: |
A profile of Priscila Barbosa, who defrauded Uber and other apps by building a ~$10K-per-month business renting fake accounts to undocumented workers in the US — She came to the US with a dream. Using platforms like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash, she built a business empire up from nothing.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple and Google launch a data portability tool that lets Google Photos users move their photos to iCloud, after offering iCloud to Google Photos in March 2021 — Apple and Google have teamed up to introduce a new data portability tool that lets users transfer their Google Photos collections straight to iCloud Photos.
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Tencent-backed Shift Up closed up ~18% after raising $320M in its Seoul IPO, the largest South Korean IPO by a gaming company since Krafton raised $3.8B in 2021 — - Tencent-backed firm sold shares at the top of an offered range — It's the largest Korean IPO by a gaming firm since Krafton
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Reuters, PlayStation LifeStyle, Video Games Chronicle, and CNBC
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A SAS survey of 1,600 decision makers in key global markets: 83% of Chinese respondents said they've adopted generative AI vs. 65% in the US and 54% globally — China is leading the world in adopting generative AI, a new survey shows, the latest sign the country is making strides in the technology …
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| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Fireworks AI, which helps companies fine-tune and customize AI models, raised $52M led by Sequoia at a $552M valuation, taking its total funding to $77M — - Startup's platform lets companies access multiple AI models — Investors put $52 into the company, led by Meta alum Lin Qiao
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
How the SCOTUS NetChoice ruling on social media platforms' First Amendment rights could affect a host of tech legislation, including kids' online safety laws — Here's what the SCOTUS decision might mean for everything from kids online safety laws to the TikTok ‘ban.’| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
A US court grants Redbox owner Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Chapter 7 bankruptcy, paving the way for shutting down Redbox and liquidating its assets — Court hearing included allegations of fraud — Redbox is shutting down, corporate parent is being liquidated
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
A Google DeepMind research paper details how Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1M-token context window allows its robots to navigate and complete tasks using simple instructions — Google is training its robots with Gemini AI so they can get better at navigation and completing tasks.
More: arXiv and arXiv.org e-Print archive
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Silicon Valley Defense Group: the US federal government spent $22B on tech from the top 100 national security startups, a paltry sum and far below VC investment — Total amount of awards received by country's top national security startups less than half of what venture capitalists have invested| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources: Xiaohongshu, China's fastest-growing social media platform, sold existing shares in recent weeks at a $17B valuation; DST took part in the round — Yuri Milner's DST Global takes stake at $17bn valuation in rare investment from overseas after China's tech crackdown
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| Michael Hennessey / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Bioptimus releases H-optimus-0, an open source AI model trained on hundreds of millions of images to aid research and diagnoses of diseases — - The model is trained off of hundreds of millions of images — Firm is among those racing to use AI for medical advances
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| Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: |
UK government data: digital industry job growth grew just 0.3% in 2023, the lowest since a 0.1% decline in 2013, down from 4.1% growth in 2022 and 6.5% in 2021 — Job growth in the UK's digital industry hit its lowest in a decade, prompting the incoming Labour government to pledge to revive the sector as it seeks to stimulate growth.Sponsor Posts
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