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September 10, 2024, 4:40 PM

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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
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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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
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 …
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.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google starts rolling out a Google One “Lite” plan in India that offers 30GB storage for Rs. 59, or ~$0.70, per month  —  Google has started rolling out a “Lite” plan for Google One that has a small storage bump, and an even smaller cost.  —  A Google One subscription grants …
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.
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.
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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