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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.
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X: @markgurman, @heaney555, @9to5mac, @vadimyuryev, @skarredghost, @nathievr, @heaney555, @_thejasonc, @justinryanio, @lunayian, and @markgurman
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| 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) …
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| 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| 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
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Bluesky: @parismarx.com, @davidheniguk, and @robertscotthorton
LinkedIn: Massimo Donna and Deborah Elms
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will still run the plant and make AI servers as part of Softbank's $500B Stargate project with OpenAI and Oracle — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will operate a US factory owned by SoftBank Group Corp., setting up what's in the running …
More: Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, and Benzinga
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Grammarly debuts AI agents for writing and grading assistance, including an AI grader and a citation finder agent, available for Grammarly Free and Pro users — Nine AI agents for writing and grading assistance are launching today for Grammarly Free and Pro users.
More: TechCrunch, Grammarly, and MakeUseOf
| Politico: |
A look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to turn its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California — SAN FRANCISCO — Sam Altman, the driving force behind ChatGPT's meteoric rise, is running a team of veteran political operatives …
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| 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.| 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: @mranthropology and @yaqiu
X: @patrickc and @edwardwhitenz
LinkedIn: Yi Yang and Edward White
| 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 … | Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
As boards and executives mandate using AI to make their businesses more efficient and competitive, many have yet to fully integrate it into their own workdays — Some are being nudged to learn how to use the nascent technology. Coming to the C-suite retreat: mandatory website-building exercises using A.I. tools.| 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 … | Yan Zhuang / New York Times: |
Humanoid Robot Games highlighted robotics advancements but also limitations, with robots tripping over each other; one robot ran faster than many amateur humans — The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too.
More: South China Morning Post, Implicator.ai, Trak.in, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and Engadget
| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the “Palantir Mafia”, a group of Palantir alumni who have started or are leading 350+ tech companies, including at least a dozen valued at $1B+ — The network connects founders and venture capitalists with ‘Palantir Pals’ and a Russian River camping tripSponsor Posts
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