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Reuters:
Meta agrees to pay $1.4B to settle Texas' lawsuit accusing Meta of using facial recognition tech to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without consent  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state's lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent …
Kate Gibson / CBS News:
The US CPSC rules that Amazon is legally responsible for recalled products sold on Amazon.com, even by third parties, and must remove them and notify purchasers  —  Amazon distributed hundreds of thousands of hazardous products sold by third-parties through the e-commerce giant's platform …
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with partners such as Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, and WordPress.com, after weeks of plagiarism accusations  —  Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with publishing partners following weeks of plagiarism accusations.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
The US Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act by a vote of 91 to 3; the bills now head to the House  —  The Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA 2.0) …
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
California's DMV says it has created tokens for 42M car titles on the Avalanche blockchain and aims to help residents access them by early next year  —  California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology in a bid to detect fraud …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm debuts the 4nm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2, a feature-limited version of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, to make 5G accessible to smartphones in the sub-$100 category  —  Qualcomm Tuesday announced the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2.  The entry-level chip aims to make 5G accessible to 2.8 billion smartphone users …
Capital Brief:
Canva acquires AI image generation service Leonardo.ai for an undisclosed amount; Leonardo.ai launched in December 2022 and has 19M+ registered users  —  Founded in December 2022, Leonardo.Ai has over 19 million users and its very own foundation AI model.  —  Canva, Australia's largest …
Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:
The SEC charges BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji for raising $257M+ from unregistered offers and sales of BTCLT and lying to investors about taking from proceeds  —  The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has hit the founder of decentralized social network BitClout with fraud charges …
Jeff Stone / Bloomberg:
Microsoft calls on the US Congress to pass a comprehensive law to crack down on AI deepfakes that aim to interfere in elections or maliciously target people  —  - Law enforcement needs a clear legal framework, Brad Smith says  — Elon Musk recently shared manipulated clip of Kamala Harris
Rafe Uddin / Financial Times:
The UK ICO says the country's election authority failed to take “basic steps” to protect the personal data of 40M voters before a 2021 China-backed cyberattack  —  ‘Basic steps’ including updating passwords were missed before 2021 hack, finds Information Commissioner
Bloomberg:
Sources including frontline health care workers say their testing of Google's AI-powered nurse handoff tool has left questions about its consistency and quality  —  After spending billions trying to transform the industry, Alphabet sees opportunity in artificial intelligence.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI begins rolling out ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, initially called out for sounding like Scarlett Johansson after its demo in May, to ChatGPT Plus users  —  OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode on Tuesday, giving users their first access to GPT-4o's hyper-realistic audio responses.
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA is gathering information from market players to determine whether Google's partnership with Anthropic qualifies as a merger and harms UK competition  —  - CMA will review whether investment causes competition issues  — Google committed to investing $2 billion into the AI startup

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From Mediagazer

The Hollywood Reporter:
The Sky-ITV deal raises questions about US ownership of the UK's largest commercially funded free-to-air network and a key part of its cultural landscape

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is studying its data to see why viewers quit its shows after S1, with some shows seeing a 30%-70% S2 drop, as it faces a quarter without hits

Alex Ritman / Variety:
AI-focused studio Particle 6 plans a full-length feature film to be led by the AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, as a hybrid production using film and TV professionals

More News

Reuters:
Spain's antitrust watchdog fines Booking.com €413.2M for abusing its dominant position of 70%-90% market share in the country over the last five years
Brady Dale / Axios:
The US SEC drops its securities claims about 10 tokens from its Binance lawsuit; its case against other Binance programs, like staking, looks set to proceed
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
London-based fertility app Flo Health raised a $200M+ Series C from General Atlantic at a $1B+ valuation and expects subscription revenue to pass $200M in 2024

Earlier Picks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The US NTIA issues a report in support of “open-weight” generative AI models like Meta's Llama 3.1, but recommends the government to monitor for potential risks
Hadley Beeman / W3C:
After Google said it wouldn't deprecate third-party cookies, the W3C says they should be removed as “hidden personal data collection hurts everyone's privacy”
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Meta releases Segment Anything Model 2 with support for object segmentation in videos and images; the code and weights are available under an Apache 2.0 license
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta rolls out AI Studio in the US, letting users create and share AI chatbots, and Instagram creators set up chatbots to answer DM questions and story replies
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
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