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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
More: European Commission, European Commission, Finextra, Engadget, Barron's Online, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, FinTech Global, Thurrott, Silicon Republic, CNBC, Proactive, Euronews, Politico, Deutsche Welle, Silicon UK, Financial Times, Reuters, Wired, PocketGamer.biz, The Register, TechCrunch, New York Times, FStech, kuwaittimes, Quartz, Business Standard, Android Headlines, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Invezz, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, BGR, MacRumors, Neowin, Cult of Mac, iMore, NewsBytes, MacDailyNews, The Verge, and Sherwood News
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
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: Gizmodo, MacRumors, PCMag, HotHardware, AppleInsider, Supercharged, Spyglass, Neowin, BGR, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Mobile World Live, and Notebookcheck
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
The US SEC drops its investigation into Paxos over its BUSD stablecoin issued in partnership with Binance, 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 …
More: Paxos, Decrypt, The Information, The Block, Protos, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoSlate, Milk Road, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Cryptonews, Watcher Guru, and Cryptopolitan
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
A US judge sentences Ukrainian Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang, to 18 years in jail and orders payment of $73M+ — The cybercrime boss, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang and was on the FBI's “most wanted” list for years …
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| 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 Stack, Home (public), The Verge, GIGAZINE, TechSpot, Engadget, The Record, and ICPEN
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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
More: SiliconANGLE, Fireworks, and FinSMEs
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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: Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, Axios, Helsing, Maginative, The Decoder, Perspectives, Sifted, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TNW
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
A Google DeepMind research paper details how Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1M-token context window lets Google's robots 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 Maginative
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
SpaceX makes its $599 Starlink Mini portable dish available to everyone in the US; the Mini works with the $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.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Regard, which saves physicians time by analyzing patients' health data using AI, raised a $61M Series B led by Oak HC/FT, a source says at a $350M valuation — People in tech often say that data is the new oil. That phrase, coined by British mathematician Clive Humby, of course implies that data is valuable.
More: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, HIT Consultant, Regard, and MobiHealthNews
| Bloomberg: |
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: Game Rant, GamesIndustry.biz, Reuters, PlayStation LifeStyle, CNBC, and Video Games Chronicle
Forums: r/gachagaming, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
YouTube announces new Shorts features, including TikTok-like text-to-speech video narration, in-app auto-generated captions, and a set of Minecraft effects — YouTube has announced a set of new features for YouTube Shorts, some of which are available now, like a new text-to-speech video narration … | 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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Forums: r/Longreads, r/longform, r/uberdrivers, and r/TrueReddit
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
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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| Wired: |
Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices — Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand.| 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.’| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
A look at the rise in use of the sparkles emoji to market AI products as magic, as some say the imagery distracts from real-world issues the AI industry faces — Have you noticed artificial intelligence is looking a lot more sparkly lately? But first... Do you believe in magic?
More: CNET. X: @fdaudens, @c_pritchard, @katherineamunro, @minney_cat, @kristyt, @thdxr, @bzamayo, @kristyt, and @rachelmetz
| 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.
More: US Department of Justice, CryptoPotato, BitMEX Blog, Milk Road, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Crowdfund Insider, CCN.com, The Cyber Express, Watcher Guru, The Crypto Times, Cryptonews, Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, CoinDesk, GovInfoSecurity.com, Cointelegraph, The Block, and CoinGape
X: @bitmex, @parrotcapital, @spreekaway, @cryptomtndrew, @sdnynews, and @mdudas
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources: Xiaohongshu, China's fastest-growing social media platform, sold existing shares in recent weeks at a $17B valuation; DST Global 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
X: @davidyin44
| 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
More: How-To Geek, NBC News, Kotaku, Deadline, Engadget, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Cord Cutters News, Bloomberg, The A.V. Club, and The Verge
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