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September 22, 2024, 4:15 AM

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New York Times:
X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company's lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative  —  In an abrupt reversal, the social network's lawyers said it was complying with court orders that it had previously defied.
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device  —  Many people have wondered what Jony Ive has been up to since he left Apple five years ago.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning “addictive feeds”, barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more  —  California took a major step in its fight to protect children from the ills of social media with Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature …
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September 25 at 1pm ET: new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, cheaper Quest 3S headset, and more  —  Meta is holding its annual Connect developers conference next week, and it's going to showcase a bunch of expected and perhaps some surprise …
Kali Hays / Fortune:
Sources: many OpenAI staff were taken aback by a proposed ChatGPT logo with a simple, large black “O”, which struck some as ominous and lacking in creativity  —  A black ring can represent many things - simplicity, a new phase, a void.  Whatever its meaning …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for “smart product regulation”, more  —  Speaking Saturday at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works  —  Exclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materials
Gabriel Gatehouse / BBC:
A look at Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries  —  Do you look at the possibility of political turbulence ahead of November's US presidential election and think: democracy could be in trouble?

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