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Sources: Apple plans to debut Apple Intelligence by October, weeks after iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 releases; developers get to test AI features as soon as this week — - Developers will get to test AI features as soon as this week — Apple is betting on enhancements to help sell iPhone 16 line
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple debuts Apple Intelligence in the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 developer betas, with text generation and Siri updates, but missing some features — - Apple on Monday released the first version of Apple Intelligence, … Apple on Monday released the first version of Apple Intelligence …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Twitch remains unprofitable a decade after Amazon's acquisition; Docs show Twitch generated ~$667M in ad revenue and $1.3B in commerce revenue in 2023 — Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money. The live-video service has slowing user growth …
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Some popular sites like Condé Nast's titles and Reuters.com modified robots.txt to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names — Hundreds of sites have put old Anthropic scrapers on their blocklist, while leaving a new one unblocked.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US court ruled on July 24 that border agents must get a warrant before searching the electronic devices of US and international travelers crossing the border — A federal district court in New York has ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices …
More: 9to5Mac, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget
| David Gilbert / Wired: |
ISD: hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly sharing Hitler-related propaganda, including Holocaust denial videos, and trying to recruit new members — Not only is TikTok's algorithm promoting Neo-Nazi content, extremist organizations are also using the platform to recruit new members and encourage real-world action.
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Podcasting is becoming an industry of megastars with huge deals and the biggest audiences; Edison: the top 25 podcasts reach nearly 50% of US weekly listeners — The top shows are adding video, merchandise and live tours and signing megadeals with Spotify, Sirius and Amazon.
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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
LinkedIn and Pinterest are testing programs that let publishers sell ads on their videos and pages, respectively, in exchange for a cut of the resulting revenue — Social media platforms such as Pinterest, TikTok and LinkedIn are trying a new tack to gain a bigger share of digital advertising …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at ByteDance's CapCut, which has 318M+ MAUs outside China, vs. ~97.4M Canva MAUs, and has made $125M so far in 2024 on mobile, per Sensor Tower — - CapCut could be banned in US by same law threatening TikTok — Adobe working on Premiere editing app that runs in browser
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
NYC-based Altana, which develops AI logistics software to help companies manage their supply chains, raised a $200M Series C at a $1B valuation — The aim is to create a “Google Maps for the supply chain” for customers like Maersk, L.L. Bean and the Pentagon.
More: Altana, Crunchbase News, Salesforce Ventures, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Ghostery CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz about the service turning 15, ad tracking, why regulation is not the best path to protecting online privacy, and more — The world of online advertising has changed dramatically since Ghostery first launched in 2009 to help people understand …
More: Cautious Optimism
| Wall Street Journal: |
Guracha Belachew Bersha, a now-freed Ethiopian man, details scamming hundreds while he was enslaved for 16 months in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar — A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture
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