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YouTube's ad revenue increased 4.4% YoY to $7.67B in Q2, above expectations of $7.43B and a reversal after three consecutive quarters of declines — Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, came in above analyst earnings expectations, with top-line growth of 7%.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism — RIP Twitter (2007-2023) — On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says Twitter “made sense when it was just 140 character messages” and the move “is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing” — - Billionaire to build fintech services atop social platform — Discarding the Twitter name reflects loftier goals, he says| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
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OpenAI shuts down its AI classifier for indicating AI-written text, citing “its low rate of accuracy”, and will research “more effective provenance techniques” — In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world … | Elissa Miolene / Mercury News: |
At schools across California, some Chromebook models are about to age out of software updates; 13 models hit their death date this summer and 51 will in 2024 — At a lofty warehouse in East Oakland, a dozen students have spent their summer days tinkering with laptops.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Apple faces a £785M class action lawsuit, claiming to represent over 1,500 app developers, over its App Store fees at the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal — Apple (AAPL.O) on Tuesday found itself the target of a 785-million-pound ($1 billion) class action lawsuit brought … | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify Q2: revenue up 11% YoY to €3.2B, Premium subs up 17% YoY to 220M, MAUs up 27% YoY to 551M; Q3 sales forecast below analyst est.; SPOT closes down 14.26% — Spotify Technology SA fell as much as 13% in New York trading after the audio streaming giant reported sales that came … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
The Browser Company launches Arc on macOS and iOS after a two-year waitlist; the browser helps users take notes, redesign webpages, organize tabs, and more — Arc, the Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, is finally ditching its waitlist. The company has been testing the app … | Financial Times: |
Sam Altman's fission startup Oklo and life-extension startup Retro, alongside OpenAI and Worldcoin, may reshape society and will draw regulatory scrutiny — OpenAI chief says public sector has ‘lack of will’ to lead innovation — Sam Altman rolled out a new project to distinguish humans … | TechCrunch: |
Threads adds an option for a chronological feed of posts from people the user follows — Meta's text-based social network Threads is rolling out one of the most requested features after its launch — a following feed. The company is also rolling out the ability to see posts you've liked in your settings.| Tim Perry / HTTP Toolkit: |
As open web advocates raise concerns over the Web Environment Integrity proposal, a look at a similar Apple system shipped in 2022 to make Captchas unnecessary — There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
A Google researcher finds a vulnerability in AMD's Zen 2 chips, giving access to secure information like encryption keys; AMD expects most patches to come in Q4 — A huge Zen 2 leak requires a patch. … Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google Information Security, posted today … | Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TikTok plans to launch an e-commerce business in the US in early August to sell made-in-China goods to consumers and rival Shein and Temu — The app seeks to replicate the success of other popular China-founded shopping platforms Shein and Temu — TikTok is launching … | CNBC: |
Snap Q2: revenue down 4% YoY to $1.07B, vs. $1.05B est., global DAUs up 14% YoY to 397M, vs. 395M est., and Q3 revenue forecast below est.; SNAP down 16%+ — Snap reported second-quarter results that topped analysts' estimates but provided a weaker-than-expected forecast for the current period.| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU enacts the €43B Chips Act, part of ambitious plans to produce 20% of the world's chips by 2030, after final approval from ministers — The European Union's plan to bolster domestic semiconductor production will become law after ministers completed the final approval on Tuesday.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Android in the US, Bangladesh, and Brazil, and plans to launch in more countries next week — According to a company tweet, it's available first in the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with other countries set to follow later, mimicking the staged rollout we saw for the iOS version.
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