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September 22, 2024, 6:15 PM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on Apple's slowing pace of iPhone hardware innovation, a closer look at its Apple Intelligence rollout plans, and iPhone 16 Pro Max first impressions  —  The new iPhone has tantalizing camera improvements, but the device is emblematic of Apple's slower pace of hardware innovation.
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.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Law enforcement agencies shut down a phishing-as-a-service platform offered by iServer since 2018 that was used to unlock 1.2M+ stolen or lost mobile phones  —  iServer provided a simple service for phishing credentials to unlock phones.  —  A coalition of law-enforcement agencies said it shut …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel  —  - Investment firm offered equity-like investment in chipmaker  — Move comes as rival Qualcomm makes approach about takeover … The alternative asset manager has indicated …
More: Reuters.  Forums: r/hardware
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
A look at Jony Ive's work at LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise up to $1B with Sam Altman by 2024's end 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
Washington Post:
Inside Equinix's 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Virginia, a region that is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world  —  We toured a facility in Northern Virginia to see how it works and to understand why water use and energy consumption are such a concern.
Morgan Meaker / Wired:
A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving force of French AI and ByteDance's newest board member, who believes Europe should pursue homegrown AI  —  The TikTok owner's newest board member revels in challenging the establishment. … I wait to meet Xavier Niel in a room that feels fitting for one of France's richest men.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
An analysis shows that at least 26 US states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications  —  - There have already been instances of generative AI being “used to confuse - and even suppress - voters," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told Axios in an email.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

More News

Umar Shakir / The Verge:
What to expect from the Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September 25 at 1pm ET: new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, the cheaper Quest 3S headset, and more
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
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
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google is creating a $120M fund to give AI education globally, calls for “smart product regulation”, and more
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Memo: Zoom plans to cut back on stock-based compensation, saying equity has been issued at a rate that is “not sustainable”, joining peers like Salesforce

Earlier Picks

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
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors from social media, banning “addictive feeds”, notifications from 12am to 6am, and more
Politico:
Nick Clegg criticizes the then PM Rishi Sunak's doomerism during November 2023's AI safety summit, saying UK “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on AI risks
Bloomberg:
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
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