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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X now lets X Blue subscribers hide their checkmarks, but warns that “the checkmark may still appear in some places” and “some features may not be available” — Social media company X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their verification checkmarks.
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Forums: r/Twitter and r/NewsOfTheStupid
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: US DOJ officials are considering fraud charges against Binance, but worry that an indictment could cause a run on Binance like the one that befell FTX — U.S. Department of Justice officials are considering fraud charges against crypto exchange Binance, but are concerned about the cost …
More: CoinDesk, The Verge, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Watcher Guru, and CryptoSlate
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Twitter: @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @adamscochran, @pt, @tree_of_alpha, @napgener, @patio11, @reedalbergotti, @spreekaway, @colinwilhelm, and @finhstamsterdam
| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Binance data and current and former employees say Chinese users traded ~$90B in crypto assets on the exchange in May 2023, despite China's crypto ban — Retaining its Chinese footprint will be crucial for Binance as it faces a global regulatory crackdown
More: Cointelegraph, The Information, The Block, Coinspeaker, CCN.com, CoinStats, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, 24/7 Wall St., Tech in Asia, Watcher Guru, Crowdfund Insider, Invezz, Cryptopolitan, CoinDesk, Protos, and Forkast
Twitter: @ceostroff, @icebergy_, @cz_binance, @jchengwsj, and @hsakatrades. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to roll out the biggest overhaul to its grocery business since buying Whole Foods in the coming weeks, including one cart for supermarket offerings — It's revamping stores, unifying online shopping carts and offering fresh-food delivery to customers who aren't Prime subscribers.
More: CNBC, Associated Press, About Amazon, GeekWire, CNBC, TechCrunch, The Information, The Verge, NPR, and PYMNTS.com
Twitter: @mattmday, @bizboyle, @mattmday, @mattmday, @theo_wayt, @kientan74, and @daveleebbg
| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
A look at Amazon Fresh's challenges, including lawsuits, layoffs, and halted projects; a former employee says staff were told 2023 could be “make or break” — Lawsuits and layoffs now litter Amazon's years-long path to conquering the brick-and-mortar grocery store.| Rest of World: |
Interviews with people at Worldcoin booths in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong find many scanned their eyes to receive the sign-up bonuses, an “easy $50” — In Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong, our reporters found lots of people were eager to take the deal.
More: Reuters, Reuters, The Verge, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Techpoint Africa, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Watcher Guru, Protos, Ethereum World News, The Block, and Crowdfund Insider
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft now lets Xbox owners stream gameplay from the console to Discord users, rolling out to all Xbox users in the coming months — Microsoft is improving its Xbox and Discord integration with a new streaming gameplay feature. Xbox owners will soon be able to stream their gameplay … | Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow plans to detail P2P protocol Veilid, to encrypt social media and apps, at Def Con next week, its biggest release in 10 years — Cult of the Dead Cow is a hacker collective whose members at one time included Texas politician Beto O'Rourke
Mastodon: @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org. Twitter: @retweetablen14 and @veilidnetwork
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Meta releases AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that lets users create music and sounds via text prompts, consisting of MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec models — It consists of three AI models, all tackling different areas of sound generation. MusicGen takes text inputs to generate music.
More: Meta, Meta, Engadget, Search Engine Land, Reuters, Fast Company, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, Neowin, Variety, and SiliconANGLE
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google updates its generative AI-powered Search experience with supplementary multimedia, faster responses, and more context for links in its summary box — Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience is getting a big new feature: images and video. If you've enabled the AI-based SGE feature … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out spatial audio for Teams on Windows and macOS after months of testing; each user has a distinct audio position based on their screen location — After a few months of testing the feature, Microsoft has widely rolled out spatial audio for its Teams desktop app on Windows and macOS.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Arm is targeting an IPO at a valuation of between $60B and $70B as soon as September 2023, looking to raise as much as $10B in its debut — - Chip design firm may raise as much as $10 billion in debut — Nvidia, Intel are in discussions to be anchor investors
More: The Information, Coinspeaker, Financial Times, Invezz, Tech Startups, Light Reading, TNW, Reuters, UKTN, and Tech in Asia
| Amy Lewin / Sifted: |
Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in August 2021, sells its Events and Session units to RingCentral; CEO Johnny Boufarhat steps down — UPDATED: The startup, which was once the fastest-growing in Europe, has also sold its flagship product
More: TechCrunch, Business Post, RingCentral, Hopin, Financial Times, and Tech.eu
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| Jen Christensen / CNN: |
An early-stage study of 80K+ women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram between April 2021 and July 2022 finds AI-supported screening detected 20% more cancers — Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors' mammogram … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Slack launches Slack Sales Elevate, offering deeper integration with Salesforce's Sales Cloud for $60 per user per month on top of Slack's and Salesforce's fees — - More Slack editions coming for customer service, marketing — New Slack CEO Lidiane Jones focuses on product updates
More: Computerworld, Slack System Status, VentureBeat, Salesforce, and Neowin
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google delists its AI Test Kitchen app, which let users try out its AI-powered tools, on Android and iOS, moving the service to the web to push updates faster — Once a miniature playground for the public to test Google's blossoming AI-powered tools, the AI Test Kitchen app has been delisted …
More: TechCrunch, OnMSFT.com, and Android Headlines
| Alex Ross / New Yorker: |
Apple failed to save classical music with iTunes and fails again with Apple Music Classical, an oddly clumsy point of entry that falls short of its competitors — As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple's bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors.| Reuters: |
Senegal blocks TikTok amid protests over arrest of its opposition leader, after restricting access to internet services on July 31 — Senegalese authorities on Wednesday blocked access to social media app TikTok, widening a clampdown on dissent days after they dissolved the country's main opposition party …
More: Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse, Times of India, and WeeTracker
| Fortune: |
A look at Katie Haun's $1.5B crypto fund, launched in spring 2022 just before the latest crypto crash, which as of June 2023 had deployed ~30% to ~24 startups — On a sunny morning in April, Katie Haun trudged up a winding path around the Stanford Dish in the hills over Palo Alto.
Twitter: @annesraders, @ajs, and @leomschwartz
| Bloomberg: |
China releases draft rules to limit minors' smartphone use, including two-hour limits for teens aged 16 to 18; platforms would be responsible for enforcement — - Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors
More: AppleInsider, PingWest, Engadget, NBC News, South China Morning Post, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, The Verge, Financial Times, Pocket Gamer.biz, Wccftech, and Variety
Twitter: @pelstrom and @arjunkharpal
| Charlie Fink / Forbes: |
Inworld, which uses AI to help developers create game characters, raised $30M led by Lightspeed at a $500M+ valuation, following a $50M Series A in August 2022 — Inworld, which makes AI-driven non-player characters (NPCs) for games and other applications has raised approximately $30 in new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.| Financial Times: |
Analysts and executives say the UK risks becoming an also-ran in the global 5G rollout race, despite starting in 2019, due to low investment and banning Huawei — Expansion of high-speed mobile networks hit by factors including limited investment and disruption from ban on Huawei kitSponsor Posts
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