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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta may debut “Hypernova” smart glasses with a display for ~$800 in September; Apple delays releasing immersive video shot around Vision Pro's debut  —  Apple has slow-walked the release of immersive video, creating a conundrum for the Vision Pro.
Himanshi Akhand / Reuters:
Australia's ACCC says Google agreed to pay a AU$55M fine over deals with Telstra and Optus to preinstall only Google Search on Android phones from 2019 to 2021  —  Australia's competition regulator said on Monday it has begun proceedings against Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) …
Financial Times:
Sources: the EU and the US have delayed formalizing their trade deal partly over “non-tariff barriers”, like relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line  —  Document formalising last month's deal delayed by squabbles over language on ‘non-tariff barriers’, bloc's officials say
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Cybercriminals, spies, researchers, and corporate defenders are increasingly using AI, feeding into an escalating cat-and-mouse game of finding software flaws  —  Hackers and cybersecurity companies have entered an AI arms race.  —  This summer, Russia's hackers put a new twist on the barrage of phishing emails sent to Ukrainians.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
A profile of Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner, who has led the EHR software company for 46 years, building it into one of the largest private US tech companies  —  Do not go public.  Do not acquire or be acquired.  Software must work.  —  These are the first three of the 10 commandments …
Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal:
NYC-based IVIX, which uses AI to help regulators detect financial fraud, raised a $60M Series B led by OG Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $85M  —  IVIX, which sells its software to regulators around the world, is the latest beneficiary of venture interest in the once-shunned area of government contracts
More: CTech and IVIX
Financial Times:
Digital bank Monzo, which has 13M UK customers, plans to launch a mobile phone service; Revolut and Klarna, each with ~11M UK customers, announced similar plans  —  Digital bank is exploring launching its own digital sim and offering monthly contracts  —  Monzo is planning to launch …
Edward White / Financial Times:
China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M in 2025, up from <700K five years ago, driven by grassroots hosts instinctively navigating China's red lines  —  There has been a surge in grassroots broadcasts of personal stories and discussion of societal issues
Bluesky: @yaqiu and @mranthropology
X: @patrickc and @edwardwhitenz
LinkedIn: Yi Yang and Edward White

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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

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

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

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Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, died on July 18 at age 88
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