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September 8, 2018, 11:25 PM
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South China Morning Post:
Alibaba says NYT story on Jack Ma's retirement is wrong; Ma will continue as executive chairman for some time, providing a succession strategy on Monday  —  Jack Ma, who co-founded the world's largest e-commerce platform, will unveil a succession strategy next week, part of a management plan 10 years …
Li Yuan / New York Times:
Jack Ma says he plans to step down from Alibaba on Monday to pursue philanthropy in education, will remain on company's board and continue to mentor management
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
A look at how Stockholm became Europe's capital of startup exits, with Spotify's $27B IPO and iZettle's $2.2B acquisition  —  The exits earlier this year by two of Sweden's biggest startup names would be enough to swell the pride of any regional ecosystem.  Spotify's $27 billion IPO …
More: Axios
Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News:
Apple removes popular anti-adware app Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store; the app surreptitiously stole and sent users' browsing history to a domain in China  —  Apple has removed a top Mac app called Adware Doctor, designed to “prevent malware and malicious files from infecting your Mac …
Dave Gershgorn / Quartz:
Healthcare AI has the same racial and gender biases as the data used to train it, which must be addressed if AI systems are to help make real medical decisions  —  Imagine there was a simple test to see whether you were developing Alzheimer's disease.  You would look at a picture and describe it …
Gregory Barber / Wired:
Researchers think we may be on the verge of breakthroughs in AI's comprehension of language similar to the AI image recognition breakthroughs of 2012  —  IN 2012, ARTIFICIAL intelligence researchers revealed a big improvement in computers' ability to recognize images by feeding …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Profile of Lina Khan, whose antitrust argument, which says Amazon has far too much power, is making waves in Washington by reframing decades of antitrust law  —  With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.  —  The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University's law library.
Steve LeVine / Axios:
McKinsey study says AI adoption will add $13T/year to global production, and the companies that embrace AI now will see their cash flow double by 2030  —  The world is in a deceptively quiet period in which some companies and countries are aggressively developing and applying early …
Washington Post:
Democratic AGs from NY, California, Washington, and elsewhere say they have not been invited to DOJ meeting on tech companies allegedly stifling free speech  —  Democratic attorneys general from key states said they have not yet been invited by the Justice Department to its upcoming review of tech companies …
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
House passes a bill that requires White House to create and maintain a database with the names of foreign hackers and cyber-threat groups working against US  —  US hopes that a name-and-shame strategy would deter foreign nation-state hacking groups to attack US infrastructure as often as now.
More: Axios

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Puck hires veteran journalist and TV commentator John Heilemann as its chief political columnist and partner, as the outlet expands its presence in Washington

Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
PEN America cancels its 2024 literary awards ceremony, set for April 29, after months of protests over the organization's response to the war in Gaza

Kate Lyons / The Guardian:
Australia's ABC South Asia correspondent Avani Dias says India refused her a standard visa renewal, after issuing a takedown notice to YouTube for her stories

More News

New York Times:
How mainstream users searching YouTube for info about Germany's far-right protests get pointed toward extremist and conspiracy videos
BuzzFeed News:
Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store
Bloomberg:
Andrei Tyurin, alleged Russian hacker of JP Morgan and others, has been extradited to the US and charged with stealing data of 100M+ customers from 2012-2015

Earlier Picks

Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Apple is in talks with the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal to join Texture, a magazine subscription app it bought in March
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
In a letter to US government, Apple publishes a detailed list of its products that it says will be affected by Trump's tariffs on China
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft sends out press invites to an event on October 2 where the refresh of current Surface hardware is likely to be announced
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