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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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Threads: @crumbler, @mac_ryan_, @taylorlorenz, @reckless1280, @crumbler, @hunterwalk, @kalihays1, @mac_ryan_, @daveleebbg, @carnage4life, @martinsfp, @kalihays1, @enjoyingeveryminute, @drewharwell, @mattrichardson, @moskov, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, and @kalihays1
Mastodon: @chrisgeidner@journa.host, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @metacurity@infosec.exchange, @MarcAbrahams@mstdn.science, @jalefkowit@vmst.io, @dmoren@zeppelin.flights, and @ianb@mastodon.well.com
X: @lindayax, @lindayax, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @rumblevideo, @elonmusk, @catthekin, @scottderrickson, @baekdal, @bobbyallyn, @fmanjoo, @toptickcrypto, @kchoudhu, @adamkovac, @thechosenberg, @brianroemmele, @ryxcommar, @colin_fraser, @chrispavlovski, @jack_raines, @ryanbarwick, @tracybeanz, @joshtpm, @michaelmiraflor, @joshtpm, @bobbyallyn, @kristyt, @gergelyorosz, @harrymccracken, @chrispavlovski, @kyliebytes, @somewheresy, @billackman, @allahliker, @oalexanderdk, @fmanjoo, @silvermanjacob, @binarybits, @snazzylabs, and @pt. LinkedIn: Greg Glenday
Forums: Hacker News, r/law, r/economy, r/inthenews, r/facepalm, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/business, r/neoliberal, and r/law
| 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 …
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Threads: @bdsams. X: @paulrobichaux, @sysadafterdark, @andrewjmcclure, @film_girl, @tomwarren, @david_slotnick, and @kpottermn. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead
Forums: r/technology and r/delta
| 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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| 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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Threads: @0xjessel. LinkedIn: Pratik Gadamasetti, Jingbin Wang, Adina R., Taylor Callahan, and Sung Bai
Forums: r/Nest, r/Android, and r/googlehome
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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X: @tomwarren, @jordannovet, @mishaalrahman, @tomgara, and @killedbygoogle
LinkedIn: Ethan Henry and Ryan Geraghty
Forums: r/technews, r/AndroidTV, r/google, and r/ShieldAndroidTV
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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Forums: r/technews, r/LinusTechTips, and r/Chromecast
| 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.
More: The Decoder, Neowin, Simon Willison's Weblog, VentureBeat, Maginative, and SiliconANGLE
Threads: @ericflo. X: @romainhuet, @altryne, @openaidevs, @simonw, @michpokrass, @emollick, @swyx, @deedydas, @tobi, @simonw, @simonw, @jxnlco, @simonw, and @sama
LinkedIn: Shyamal Hitesh Anadkat, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, and David Zhang
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, and Lobsters
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$20.5B, vs. ~$19.31B est., operating profit up 10% YoY to ~$1.92B, vs. $1.89B est., and 2.4M PS5 sales, down from 3.3M YoY — Sony on Wednesday reported a 10% jump in operating profit in the fiscal first quarter, beating analyst expectations …
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Reuters, Deadline, Wall Street Journal, Wccftech, and Eurogamer.net. X: @tomwarren
| 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 drops 14%+ — - Forecasts for sales and nights booked miss analyst estimates — Shorter booking lead times and slower US demand dampened gains
More: Airbnb, Yahoo Finance, PhocusWire, Reuters, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Proactive, Financial Times, and Barron's Online
X: @garyblack00 and @thetranscript_
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Supermicro shares dropped ~10% after the company reported $5.31B in Q4 revenue, below est., earnings below est., 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.| 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.)
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Threads: @alexheath. Mastodon: @raineer@frontrange.co. X: @hkanji and @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit reports Q2 revenue up 54% YoY to $281.2M, vs. $254M est., Daily Active Uniques up 51% YoY to 91.2M, and net loss down from $41.1M in Q2 2023 to $10.1M — Reddit reported second-quarter results on Tuesday that topped analysts' estimates. — Here are the key numbers:
More: Social Media Today, Reddit Upvoted, Reuters, The Information, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, and Bloomberg
Threads: @jonathan_vanian_1. X: @tidefallcapital, @glenngabe, and @tidefallcapital. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Forbes: |
How Les Wexner, Victoria's Secret billionaire owner, made early investments in Atlantic Crypto, which then turned into CoreWeave, netting him a $720M stake — A lawsuit reveals that an early bet on the company that would later become $19 billion startup Coreweave has made Les Wexner …
X: @_iainmartin, @_iainmartin, and @hkanji
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Coupang reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $7.3B and a $77M net loss, its first loss since 2022, due to its Farfetch deal and a South Korean regulatory fine — - The Farfetch deal and a government fine weighed on results — The company is investing in safeguarding its delivery network
More: Coupang, Reuters, KED Global, and Yonhap News Agency
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
A profile of Yang Zhilin, the founder and CEO of China's highest-valued AI unicorn Moonshot, who studied at Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Huawei — - Big bets made by Alibaba, Tencent and other investors on Yang Zhilin's leadership have boosted Moonshot AI's valuation to US$3.3 billion
More: Pandaily
| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Division in Hollywood's approach to AI is growing, as some studios want to use AI tools more often in production, while unions aim to establish guardrails — While unions aim to establish guardrails and artists are going to court, studios are looking to use AI tools more often in production.Sponsor Posts
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