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August 6, 2024, 11:10 PM

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
X sues the World Federation of Advertisers, GARM, and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, and Unilever over what Linda Yaccarino calls an “illegal boycott”  —  Members include major tech companies, advertisers, agencies, ad tech firms and advertising coalitions.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google unveils the $100 Google TV Streamer, with better performance than Chromecast with Google TV, Thread and Matter support, and more, shipping September 24  —  Google isn't waiting for its upcoming hardware event to announce the Chromecast's successor.  Alongside the new, sleeker Nest Thermostat …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Google unveils Gemini-based features for Google Home, coming later in 2024: descriptive captions for Nest camera videos, a smarter Assistant for Nest, and more  —  Amazon has already announced its plans for a smarter Alexa to power your home.  Now, it's Google's turn to promise that it can produce a better …
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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $2.75B, above estimates, Nights and Experiences Booked up 9% YoY, and Q3 guidance below est.; ABNB down 14%+ after hours  —  - Forecasts for sales and nights booked miss analyst estimates  — Shorter booking lead times and slower US demand dampened gains
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
CrowdStrike shares a root cause analysis of the July 19 outage, and says it's working with two third-party software security vendors to conduct further review  —  And reveals the small mistake that bricked 8.5M Windows boxes  —  CrowdStrike has hired two outside security firms to review …
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Behind the YouTube influencers, WhatsApp and Telegram groups, and services like FewFeed fueling Facebook's problem of creators profiting from viral “AI slop”  —  Gyan Abhishek is standing in front of a giant touch screen, like Jim Cramer on Mad Money or an ESPN talking head analyzing a football play.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit Q2: revenue rose 54% YoY to $281.2M, vs. $254M est., Daily Active Uniques increased 51% YoY to 91.2M, and net loss dropped from $41.1M to $10.1M YoY  —  Reddit reported second-quarter results on Tuesday that topped analysts' estimates.  —  Here are the key numbers:
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Supermicro shares drop 13% after hours after the company reported Q4 earnings missing analyst expectations, and announces a 10-for-1 stock split  —  Shares of server company Super Micro Computer plunged 13% on Tuesday after the company announced fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that missed analyst expectations.
Michelle Pokrass / OpenAI:
OpenAI unveils Structure Outputs in the API, a feature to ensure model-generated outputs match JSON Schemas, and lower pricing for a new version of GPT-4o  —  We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
Intel says its Foundry's lead products on Intel 18A are booting and expects the first external customer chip design tape out in H1 2025  —  Following Intel's painful Q2 earnings call and the announcement of their 2025 cost reduction plan last week, it has become increasingly evident …
Fei-Fei Li / Fortune:
California's AI safety bill will harm developers, open-source development, the public sector, and academia, while failing to address the potential harms of AI  —  Fei-Fei Li, PhD, is a computer scientist who is widely credited with being the ‘Godmother of AI’. … Today, AI is more advanced than ever.
Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:
A researcher finds another flaw in Georgia's voter registration cancellation portal, which has had bugs that made submitting requests for any Georgian trivial  —  The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.7B, Gross Bookings up 19% to $40B, vs. $39.7B est., and Mobility Gross Bookings up 23% to $20.6B; UBER closes up 10.9%  —  - Results driven by better-than-expected growth in ridehailing  — Autonomous rides grew six-fold from year ago through partners

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