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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup  —  YouTube on Tuesday announced it's beginning to roll out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience.
Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia says it will include YouTube in its ban on social media for children under 16 years of age, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the platform
Reece Rogers / Wired:
OpenAI debuts a ChatGPT study mode, designed to guide students through learning material at their level, available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users  —  OpenAI's new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn't address generative AI's underlying disruption of education.
Financial Times:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg's aim with the Superintelligence Labs is to create a start-up-like unit within Meta that is unencumbered by the company's bureaucracy  —  Meta has splashed out on star hires and infrastructure as it tries to make up ground in the artificial intelligence race
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Source: Meta approached over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab and one offer was for $1B+ over a multiyear span; not a single person has left for Meta
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple loses its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's superintelligence team; the AFM team is in flux and Apple marginally increased AFM staff pay
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg mulls more shake-ups to Meta's AI strategy; he lost faith in the team in part due to a controversy over whether it gamed AI benchmarks
Associated Press:
A survey of US adults: only 37% report using AI for work tasks and 60% say they use AI to find info at least some of the time, rising to 74% for those under 30
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity company CyberArk Software as soon as this week; a premium would put the deal above $20B  —  Deal for Israeli firm would be latest in big tech's cybersecurity consolidation  —  Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire …
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise $5B in a funding round led by Iconiq at a $170B valuation, after being valued at $61.5B in a $3.5B round in March  —  Deal would almost triple valuation of OpenAI's rival to $170bn  —  Iconiq Capital is set to lead a $5bn funding round …
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
An interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path
Catherine Perloff / The Information:
Daniel Ek says Spotify's ad business has “been moving too slowly”; Spotify ad chief Lee Brown left on July 28 to join DoorDash as its chief revenue officer  —  Spotify executives on Tuesday signalled that the departure of its ad chief, Lee Brown, on Monday was in response …
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to €4.2B, MAUs up 11% to 696M, subscribers up 12% to 276M, and an €86M net loss; SPOT closes down 11.6% after missed est.
André Beganski / Decrypt:
The US SEC approves in-kind creations and redemptions for crypto ETFs, allowing institutional investors to exchange ETF shares for the underlying BTC or ETH  —  The SEC has approved in-kind redemptions for crypto ETFs, enabling a feature sought by Bitcoin and Ethereum fund issuers.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets “a dangerous precedent” and “threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart”  —  The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.”
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US DOJ fired two of its most senior antitrust enforcers after disagreements related to defusing its lawsuit against HPE over its $14B Juniper deal
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out new AI Mode features: Search Live with video input, Canvas for planning, image and PDF uploading, and AI Mode in Google Lens in desktop Chrome  —  After adding Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is updating AI Mode with four big features across Search Live (video with Google Lens access), Canvas, and more.
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Gov. Tim Walz activates the Minnesota National Guard to help St. Paul address a cyberattack detected Friday that led the city to shut down many of its systems  —  Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota activated the National Guard to help the city of St. Paul address a cyberattack that was detected last Friday.
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Tea, which claims to make dating safer for women, is the #2 app in the US App Store, despite multiple security flaws exposing private chats, photo IDs, and more  —  Two major security vulnerabilities in the Tea app - which claims to make dating safer for women - have exposed the private chats …
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US Commerce Department is discussing charging patent holders 1%-5% of their patent value, a radical move likely to spark pushback from businesses  —  Commerce Department officials discuss new fee based on patent value, which could fuel backlash from businesses
AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: JPMorgan Chase is in advanced talks to take over Apple's credit-card program from Goldman Sachs, with Apple telling JPMorgan it is its preferred choice  —  Discussions between the country's biggest bank and Apple accelerated in recent months  —  JPMorgan Chase is in advanced talks …
Bloomberg:
A profile of Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old Thiel Fellow who gained recognition for using AI to help decipher the Herculaneum papyri and later joined DOGE  —  Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through.

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: the tenure of Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, Fortune's outgoing CEO, was marked by turmoil over a clash with Victor Pang, a lawyer for the company's owner

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RT Watson / The Block:
eToro says it's launching tokenized US equities, ETF, and futures trading via ERC-20 tokens, citing regulatory clarity from the US' Genius Act and the EU's MiCA
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is in advanced talks to land a deal that could give it ongoing access to critical OpenAI tech even if OpenAI reaches its goal of building AGI
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
Sources: Figma's IPO, which could raise as much as $1.2B after Figma raised its range to $30 to $32 per share on July 28, is approaching 40 times oversubscribed
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says it will open the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit in August, run by Michigan State University, as Trump ramps up pressure to invest in the US
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
PayPal reports Q2 net revenue up 5% YoY to $8.29B, vs. $8.08B est., but sees slowing transaction margin dollars growth, up 7% to $3.84B; PYPL closes down 8.66%
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