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Microsoft product chief Panos Panay steps down, ahead of the September 21 Surface event; consumer marketing chief Yusuf Mehdi to lead Windows and Surface units — Panos Panay, the chief product officer at Microsoft, leading Windows development and the company's Surface line, is leaving Microsoft.
More: TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, Associated Press, Thurrott, GeekWire, XDA Developers, Windows Central, Neowin, Bloomberg, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
| John Dickerson / CBS News: |
An interview with Tim Cook on Apple's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030, the Vision Pro, return to the office, why Apple still advertises on X, and more — In Brown County, Texas - flat, dry, near the geographical center of the state - Apple has invested in a joint venture to power 100,000 homes with clean energy.
More: 9to5Mac, CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube, AppleInsider, Variety, CNBC, Fortune, Insider, MacRumors, Wccftech, Same Brain on YouTube, TweakTown, MIXED Reality News, The Wrap, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, The Verge, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Threads: @keubikooriginal, @chancerydaily, @vernalkick, @mostly.borrowed.ideas, @carnage4life, @tobybartlett, @bartclaeys, @chrispirillo, @motorcityadam, @aaronrosspowell, and @chancehmiller
Mastodon: @Green_Footballs …, @danhon@dan.mastohon.com, and @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman on LLMs becoming more controllable, “interactive” AI after generative AI, AI regulation being achievable, and more — DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat.
More: VentureBeat, Insider, and TechSpot
Mastodon: @adamdenoon@universeodon.com. X: @glenngabe, @rvawonk, @rvawonk, and @mustafasuleyman. LinkedIn: Scott Novack
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Yoel Roth / New York Times: |
Twitter's ex-head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump publicly attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, Elon Musk, Twitter Files, and more — When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump's tweets for the first time.
Mastodon: @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz, @yoyoel@macaw.social, and @Noupside@saturation.social
X: @anneapplebaum, @ggreenwald, @urbanachievr, and @jeffjarvis
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's new AirPods Pro with USB-C add dust resistance but little else; an AirPods Pro software update alongside iOS 17 adds the useful Adaptive Audio and more — Last week, as predicted, Apple announced that the second-generation AirPods Pro would start shipping with a USB-C charging case instead …
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Threads: @mgsiegler. Mastodon: @dcseifert@mastodon.social. X: @miyagawa and @nandoprince93. Forums: r/apple
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel details its work on glass core substrates, a longterm project to replace organic substrates in chips, and plans a launch in the second half of the decade — Although Intel's annual Innovation event doesn't kick off until tomorrow, the company is already publishing some announcements ahead …
More: ServeTheHome, Forbes, VentureBeat, Engadget, PCMag, VideoCardz.com, Bloomberg, ExtremeTech, Forbes, Intel, PC Gamer, HardwareZone Singapore, and guru3d.com. Forums: Slashdot
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find a GitHub repository belonging to Microsoft's AI research unit that exposed 38TB of sensitive data, including secret keys and Teams chat logs — Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords …
More: MSPoweruser and OnMSFT.com
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
AI writing startup Writer, used by L'Oréal, Spotify, and Uber to create digital marketing campaigns, raised $100M led by Iconiq Growth at a $500M+ valuation — The company's technology can write and summarize a wide range of text. … Led by Chief Executive Officer May Habib … | Elad Gil / Elad Blog: |
The US should not push to regulate most aspects of AI, letting the tech mature for positive uses, to avoid favoring incumbents and forcing the industry overseas — There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so. — [While I was finalizing this post …
More: EU-Startups and Fortune
X: @baekdal, @chamath, @altcap, @theallinpod, @hargup13, @shaunmmaguire, @bgurley, @apompliano, @syrupsid, @misha_saul, and @theallinpod
LinkedIn: Allan Thygesen and David Roberts
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Crypto custody startup Bastion, co-founded by two ex-a16z executives, raised a $25M seed led by a16z crypto to expand its tools for traditional companies — - Bastion raises $25 million in funding round led by a16z crypto — Startup to provide custody and other services on one platform| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
T2, a rival to X launched after Elon Musk's takeover, rebrands as Pebble with a new logo and says T2 was never meant to be its permanent name — An X challenger didn't hide its ambitions to take on the social network formerly known as Twitter when it dubbed itself T2 at launch … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and other UK broadcasters announce Freely, offering linear TV channels via the internet, available on new smart TVs starting in 2024 — Freely will be built into next-generation smart sets, in effect taking Freeview platform on to internetSponsor Posts
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