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The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4 — Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant's 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland.
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI aims to release Strawberry, its reasoning-focused AI, within two weeks as a model that users can pick in ChatGPT; the model isn't yet multimodal — Strawberry, OpenAI's reasoning-focused artificial intelligence, is coming sooner than we thought.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services — - EU judges uphold lower court ruling in shopping case — Google was accused by EU of abusing its dominant position
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing — Microsoft boosts error correction on Quantinuum machine, parters with Atom Computing. — On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series …
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| Washington Post: |
Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls — The X billionaire's false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls … | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised $260M+ at a $4.6B valuation, after raising $200M+ at $2.2B in February 2024 — Glean was founded by former Google engineers in 2019 as a search engine for companies, helping employees access internal data.
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| Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI: |
Waymo: its cars in Phoenix and SF had 48% fewer crashes/mile than humans and 73% fewer injury-causing ones; humans rear-ended Waymos in 16 of the 23 worst ones — I took a careful look at Waymo's latest crash data. … On a Friday evening last November, police chased a silver sedan across the San Francisco Bay Bridge.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A total of 42 state and territory AGs call on Congress to pass legislation requiring warning labels on social networks that warn of social media's risks to kids — A coalition of 42 state and territory attorneys general is calling on Congress to pass regulation requiring warning labels on social media platforms.
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| Vanity Fair: |
An excerpt from the book “Character Limit” on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction — In an excerpt from their new book, Character Limit, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac detail how Musk's “goons” …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Sony announces the PS5 Pro, offering a better GPU and faster memory for up to 45% faster game rendering, but no disc drive, available from November 7 for $700 — In a CNET exclusive, I visited Sony's PlayStation headquarters to play the all-new PS5 Pro and ask Sony executives what makes this midcycle upgrade different.
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Seoul police arrest two former Samsung officials on suspicion of stealing tech worth $3.2B+ to build a chipmaking plant in China, after halting the venture — - Police accuse two former execs of stealing trade secrets — They allegedly set up a JV with local government officials
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How VC John Hering bet his career, time, and money on Elon Musk's businesses, including investing $4B+, more than half of his firm Vy Capital's reported assets — Venture capitalist John Hering bet his career, time and money on Musk enterprises, seeking a favored seat beside the world's richest man| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Neat, which helps other companies sell insurance products to their own customers, raised a €50M Series A, with ~60% in equity and the rest in debt — It's not every day that you hear about a large funding round for a French startup in the current funding environment.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with larger 6.3" and 6.9" screens, four titanium finishes, Camera Control, A18 Pro, 48MP ultrawide, 5x telephoto cameras — Apple today announced the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max—its latest flagship smartphones—featuring larger displays …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming September 20 — At any Apple event, new AirPods are never a given. The earbuds have been around nearly as long as the Apple Watch …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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