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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 …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says the Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until stock runs out, as the company stops making the Chromecast, first launched in 2013  —  The first Chromecast was announced in July of 2013 with the goal of letting people stream content from phones to televisions.
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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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.
The Verge:
US v. Google: Eddy Cue said there's no price Microsoft could offer to make Bing Safari's default search engine, stating “they offered to give us Bing for free”  —  Finally, a legal ruling on whether TikTok is a real search engine.  (It's not.)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft's loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision  —  Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge's decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.
CNBC:
Microsoft says Delta, which said it had to manually reset ~40K PC servers because of CrowdStrike, had “not modernized its IT infrastructure” and refused “help”  —  Microsoft fired back at Delta Air Lines on Tuesday after the carrier said it would seek damages …
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:
John Schulman / @johnschulman2:
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research”  —  I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
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
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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.
Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire:
Seattle-based industrial analytics startup Seeq raised a $50M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total raised to ~$165M  —  Seattle industrial analytics startup Seeq announced on Tuesday that it has landed $50 million in new funding.  The company has raised a total of approximately $165 million from investors to date.
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Don Lemon pleads not guilty to two federal charges stemming from his reporting at an anti-ICE protest in a Minnesota church

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The Richmond Free Press, a 34-year-old Black-owned weekly, shuts down due to falling ad revenue as the Black press suffers from the dispersion of its readership

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
ProRata, which aims to attribute and share AI chatbot subscription revenue with content owners, raised a $25M Series A and inks deals with major media companies
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