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| Eva Hartog / Politico: |
A profile of Pavel Durov's older brother Nikolai, who is reportedly still in Russia and is responsible for Telegram's encryption standard MTProto protocol — Nikolai Durov, who is also wanted by cops in France, is responsible for the messaging app's encryption standard.
More: CryptoSlate
| The Guardian: |
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
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| New York Times: |
Analysis of 3.2M+ Telegram messages from 16K+ channels shows how the app is inundated with criminal activity, CSAM, drug dealers, white nationalists, and more — Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform …
X: @markhachman, @kinsellawarren, @tvietor08, and @paulmozur
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9 — A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Hero Games' Daniel Wu reflects on his studio's 20% stake in Game Science, the creator of China's biggest PC game Black Myth: Wukong, which has sold 18M+ copies — - China's biggest PC game reached 18 million sales in two weeks — Beijing endorsement of ‘Wukong’ seen as positive for industry
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| Levi Sumagaysay / CalMatters: |
An investigation details the lack of enforcement of CA's Prop 22 about four years after the ballot initiative, backed by gig economy companies, became state law — Prop. 22 promised improved pay and benefits for California gig workers. But when companies fail to deliver, the state isn't doing much to help push back.
More: Blood in the Machine. Threads: @leviesu, @leviesu, and @benc_cm
| Megan Cassella / CNBC: |
In a letter, Kamala Harris is endorsed for president by 88 corporate leaders, including Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen — @IN/MEGAN-CASSELLA-BA02A160/ @MMCASSELLA — Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
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Threads: @griffinkyle. X: @mmcassella, @carlquintanilla, @levie, @magicjohnson, and @mattyglesias. LinkedIn: Roy E. Bahat
Forums: r/KamalaHarris, r/democrats, r/DeFranco, r/politics, and r/neoliberal
| Bloomberg: |
Character.AI, Aleph Alpha, and other AI startups that raised hundreds of millions are struggling to compete against better-funded rivals and Big Tech companies — Even companies that raised hundreds of millions in funding are bowing out of the race to develop advanced AI models.| Financial Times: |
Companies and customers say the cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips is lower in China than in the US despite the export controls — Supply of processors helps Chinese start-ups advance artificial intelligence technology despite Washington's restrictions
More: Cryptopolitan, Wccftech, Tom's Hardware, TipRanks Financial, The Information, TweakTown, Proactive, and CNBC. LinkedIn: Eleanor Olcott
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
The judge in the Google monopoly ruling says he'll take until August 2025 to determine remedies in the case and asks the DOJ to propose fixes by the end of 2024 — After ruling against Google last month, Judge Amit P. Mehta said he would take until next August to determine fixes that the company must make.
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| Chris McKay / Maginative: |
Replit launches Replit Agent, an AI agent that can build entire apps from scratch based on prompts, available in beta to Replit Core and Teams subscribers — Replit has launched an AI agent capable of building entire applications from scratch. This isn't just another copilot coding assistant …
More: Replit Docs, The Decoder, and Newcomer
Threads: @learnai_pro, @luokai, @piotr.macai, @kelloggt, @krassotkin, and @krassotkin
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
HyperWrite CEO unveils Reflection 70B, based on Llama 3.1 70B Instruct and trained using reflection-tuning, and says it beats GPT-4o in all benchmarks tested — There's a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
S&P Global announces that Dell and Palantir will join the S&P 500, effective on September 23, 2024; DELL jumps 5%+ and PLTR jumps 7%+ after hours — Dell and Palantir both jumped about 7% in extended trading Friday after S&P Global announced that the companies would join the S&P 500 index.
More: MarketWatch, S&P Global, Fortune, Barron's Online, Investor's Business Daily, and Bloomberg
X: @michaeldell, @carnage4life, @austingiraffe, @convertbond, @jtlonsdale, @jordannovet, and @wallstengine. LinkedIn: Ted Mabrey. Forums: Hacker News
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Roblox plans a generative AI tool to let creators make 3D scenes using text prompts, and announces new social features like Party and Music Charts — At the annual Roblox Developers Conference, the company announced on Friday a series of upcoming changes coming to the platform in the next few months and years.
More: Roblox Corporate, MIT Technology Review, Game Rant, PC Gamer, The Business of Fashion, PCMag, BetaKit, Billboard, and IGN
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