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Source: a Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks Starlink bank accounts in Brazil, to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines; the court has also threatened to block X — - Musk, Brazil justice fight over fake news on social media — Court threats to block X for lack of Brazil representative
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Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to join the funding round that would value OpenAI at over $100B — - Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group — Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” …
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple's Applebot-Extended AI crawler — This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and evaluate their capabilities and risks — The US government announced agreements with leading artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic to help test and evaluate their upcoming technologies for safety.
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LinkedIn: Tayo Adesanya and Jonas Schuett
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is investigating if Telegram gave inaccurate user numbers to stay under the DSA's 45M threshold; Telegram reported 41M EU users in February 2024 — Brussels probing possible failure by messaging platform to provide accurate data under new regulations
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M — Magic, an AI startup developing models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Dell Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $25.06B, vs. $24.53B est., servers and networking revenue up 80% to $7.76B, net income up 85% to $841M; DELL jumps 7%+ after hours — Dell reported quarterly results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, powered by an 80% increase in server sales.| Alex Isenstadt / Politico: |
In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again — The Meta CEO earlier this week asserted that Biden administration tried to “pressure” the company to downplay content about Covid.
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X: @conorforaz, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, @shellenberger, @jdvance, and @politicoalex. Forums: r/technology
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July — - Meta said earlier on Thursday adoption of its open source Llama models has also grown sharply.
More: VentureBeat, How-To Geek, Thurrott, Cointelegraph, and Cryptopolitan
| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024 — Meta's (META.O) Llama artificial intelligence models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and AT&T …
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| Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Anti-piracy group ACE says it worked with Hanoi police to shutter Hanoi-based Fmovies and its affiliates, “the largest pirate streaming operation in the world” — The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, whose members include Netflix and Walt Disney Studios … | Bloomberg: |
Huawei reports Q2 revenue up 33.7% YoY to ~$33.6B, rising for the sixth straight quarter, and net profit down 18.6% YoY to ~$5B, ahead of the Mate 70's launch — - IPhone has fallen from China's top five in smartphone ranking — Shenzhen-based company also chasing EV software demand
More: Reuters, Huawei, PhoneArena, Light Reading, and Huawei Central
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: in the 2025 iPhone lineup, only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have 12GB of DRAM, instead of 8GB, and a cooling system with vapor chambers and graphite sheets — Just a day after a noted leaker on Chinese microblogging site Weibo suggested the iPhone 17 lineup in 2025 could see an upgrade …
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X: @mingchikuo, @scobleizer, @thegalox_, @thegalox_, and @tailosivetech
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Analysis: 16 of the biggest so-called undress and “nudify” websites have used sign-in infrastructure from Google, Apple, Discord, X, Patreon, or Line for months — Single sign-on systems from several Big Tech companies are being incorporated into deepfake generators, WIRED found.
More: iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
| New York Times: |
Michael Lacey, co-founder of the classified ad site Backpage, gets five years in prison and a $3M fine for money laundering; two other executives get 10 years — Michael Lacey, 76, co-founded the website that became known for its ads for prostitution. He was convicted on a money laundering charge … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 2019 — Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale … Sponsor Posts
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