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French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities — A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.
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| Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico: |
French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision” — French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says that “all things considered”, California “should probably” pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill — This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces a September 9 event at Apple Park with the iPhone 16 lineup, new Apple Watch models, and AirPods 4 expected; the invitation says “It's Glowtime” — Apple today announced plans to hold its annual iPhone-centric event on Monday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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| Apple: |
Apple announces CFO Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025; Kevan Parekh, Apple's VP of Financial Planning and Analysis, will become CFO — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic publishes a changelog for the system prompts of its Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku models, the first major AI vendor to do so — Generative AI models aren't actually human-like. They have no intelligence or personality — they're simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence.
More: SiliconANGLE, Anthropic, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @alexalbert__, @krishnanrohit, @andrewcurran_, @simonw, @nickadobos, and @tyhouch. Forums: r/singularity
| Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal: |
In a letter to US Rep. Jim Jordan, Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets Meta wasn't more outspoken about the Biden admin's pressure to restrict some COVID-19 content — Meta CEO also says he won't repeat 2020 efforts to fund local elections, which Republicans criticized as ‘Zuckerbucks’
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon aggregators Branded and Heyday plan to merge; Branded would acquire Heyday in exchange for $521M in equity in a new company to be named Essor — - Pandemic-era e-commerce boom fizzled, prompting shakeout — Branded, Heyday plan to combine and continue as Essor| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber a record €290M for failing to abide by European protection standards when sending sensitive driver data to the US — - Uber was fined for not sufficiently protecting driver data — The fine is the highest penalty ever issued by Dutch regulator
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| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
Docs: Amazon plans to launch its delayed overhaul of Alexa in October for as much as $10/month, with AI-generated news summaries, a chatbot for kids, and more — The revamp of the voice assistant, which documents say will include a daily AI-generated news summary, would come just weeks before the U.S. presidential election.| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
Crypto platform Abra agrees to settle with the SEC over claims of unregistered securities; the SEC said the Abra Earn product had almost $500M from US investors — The securities regulator says Abra sold half a billion dollars in unregistered Abra Earn while also operating without registration as an investment company.| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
OpenAI supports CA bill AB 3211 to require companies generating AI content to add watermarks; the bill passed in the state Assembly 62-0 and heads to Senate — ChatGPT developer OpenAI is supporting a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content …
More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Cryptopolitan, Silicon Republic, PYMNTS.com, and Mashable
X: @deanwball, @nathanpmyoung, @psychosort, and @xoxdrip
Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
How some Chinese AI companies use brokers to access top AI chips despite US sanctions, sometimes using cryptocurrency smart contracts to anonymously make orders — SINGAPORE—Chinese artificial-intelligence developers have found a way to use the most advanced American chips without bringing them to China.Sponsor Posts
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