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Bloomberg:
Sources: FTX abruptly halted the sale of its $500M stake in AI startup Anthropic; FTX's bankers had reportedly been shopping its Anthropic stake in early June  —  Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX has abruptly halted the sale of one of its most sought-after assets: a stake in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.
Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
FTX sues former compliance officer Daniel Friedberg, alleging he was Sam Bankman-Fried's “fixer” who made “hush money” payments to two potential whistleblowers  —  The lawsuit claims the former compliance officer paid whistleblowers to stop them from exposing the “true fraudulent nature” of the exchange.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even prevent sales of Nvidia's A800 chip without a license  —  Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Adalytics: ~80% of Google's video ad placements on third-party sites violated the company's promised standards between 2020 and 2023; Google disputes the claims  —  About 80% of Google's video-ad placements on third-party sites violated promised standards, new research shows; Google disputes claims
New York Times:
UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition to combat shoplifting, something critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes  —  British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it.
Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune:
How Shein's influencer tour of its Guangzhou factory, aiming to foster goodwill and improve the company's image before a rumored IPO, spectacularly backfired  —  In recent days, Chinese fast fashion giant Shein took a handful of influencers on a tour of its Guangzhou factory.
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Report: Google canceled its “Iris” AR glasses project earlier in 2023 to focus on creating AR software platforms to license to headset manufacturers  —  Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project.  —  Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites “three people familiar with the matter” …
Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg:
Public cloud infrastructure startup Fly.io, which operates data centers in 37 regions globally, raised a $110M Series C led by EQT at a $467M valuation  —  Fly.io, a tech startup whose public cloud infrastructure enables developers to deploy applications, has raised $70 million in a funding round …
More: The Fly Blog
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk:
The European Commission publishes its legislative plans to underpin a digital euro, including safeguards for privacy and financial stability  —  Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.”  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission published …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app adds Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, drawing on information that extends beyond ChatGPT's original training data to answer questions  —  ChatGPT on mobile can now surf the web.  But only via Bing.  —  Today, OpenAI announced that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus …
Bloomberg:
A look at “Anonymous Sudan”, a self-described hacktivist group targeting Microsoft, Sweden, Israel, the US, and others, which researchers have tied to Russia  —  A hacking group responsible for a series of outages at Microsoft Corp. earlier this month had spent …
Bloomberg:
Y Combinator received a record 24K applications for its latest cohort and accepted less than 1%, of which ~35% are AI-focused and 50% use AI in their business  —  More than one-third of the famed startup accelerator Y Combinator's latest batch of companies are focused specifically on artificial intelligence.

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From Mediagazer

New York Times:
Sources: WBD staff are bracing for widespread layoffs as David Ellison wants $6B in “synergies”; the internal mood is grim as staff preferred Netflix's proposal

CNN:
CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure

Henry Dyer / The Guardian:
UK minister Josh Simons resigns over allegations that a think tank he led has probed some journalists and falsely linked them to a “pro-Kremlin” network

More News

Miranda S. Spivack / New York Times:
Experts say there is a growing need for data centers in the US, where Statista says there were 2,701 in 2022, but finding the land and energy may be a challenge
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU countries and lawmakers reach an agreement on the Data Act, establishing rules on how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and corporate data
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
TikTok admits to funding the TikTok creators' lawsuit in Montana that is challenging the state's ban of the app, but says the company is not paying the creators

Earlier Picks

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Internal memo: SiriusXM plans to shut down its Stitcher podcast app on August 29 and move subscribers to its flagship SXM app, where podcasts will include ads
Tom Warren / The Verge:
FTC v. Microsoft: an internal Microsoft presentation from June 2022 discussed building on Windows 365 “to enable full Windows ... streamed from the cloud”
Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
Source: 3AC liquidators are seeking to recover $1.3B from co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, taking action against the duo in a British Virgin Islands court
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta launches new parental controls and other safety features for Messenger and Instagram in the US, the UK, and Canada, including letting parents view contacts
Monica Chin / The Verge:
The Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, which lacks support for external GPUs and is capped to 192GB of RAM, is a tough sell for pros, given the cheaper M2 Ultra Mac Studio
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