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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a Mac mini in 2024 with M4 and M4 Pro options that is less than half the size of the current mini, its first major design change since 2010 — - It's the first major design change to Mac mini since Jobs era — Entire Mac line to get updated with AI-focused M4 processors
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| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims — - The World Federation of Advertisers is ‘discontinuing’ the activities of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
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LinkedIn: Michael Follett, Arielle Garcia, and Ruben Schreurs
Forums: r/Twitter and Ars OpenForum
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
The UK CMA opens a formal merger inquiry into Amazon's Anthropic investment after getting “sufficient information” about the deal; Amazon is “disappointed” — CMA to escalate matter to the first phase after seeking views on tech giant's investment in the AI start-up
More: GOV.UK, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Cryptopolitan, CNBC, Euractiv, Silicon Republic, The Guardian, NewsBytes, New York Times, Thurrott, ComputerWeekly.com, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Proactive, CRN, Maginative, Benzinga, WinBuzzer, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, and Bloomberg
| Josh Self / Politics.co.uk: |
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views — Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Researchers: 50 false or misleading claims about the US election posted on X in 2024 by Elon Musk have generated nearly 1.2B views and none had a Community Note — The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate said that Musk's debunked claims are spreading widely and do not appear … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts new rules and fees for apps in the EU that link to the web for purchases, including allowing links to any website, and removes other restrictions — Following the EU ruling in June that said Apple's App Store anti-steering policies are officially in breach of the Digital Markets Act, Apple is announcing changes.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says Apple's new “unacceptable” plan “disregards the fundamental requirements” of EU's DMA; Tim Sweeney calls it “malicious compliance” with “junk fees” — Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy …
More: Agence France-Presse and MacDailyNews
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with DOJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter on the US' Google win, the Apple deal, competition, being “overjoyed”, Google's appeal, market definitions, and more — AAG Jonathan Kanter says the Google monopoly verdict belongs on the ‘Mount Rushmore of antitrust.’| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and Meta ran a pilot program in the US in May 2024 to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube, which prohibits targeting ads to under-18s — Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram's appeal to young people skirted search group's rules for marketing to under-18s
More: The Information, The Verge, Android Police, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, Android Authority, TechRadar, New York Post, Business Insider, How-To Geek, Quartz, Cybernews.com, Benzinga, Invezz, MediaPost, Android Headlines, Dexerto, The Information, TipRanks Financial, Boing Boing, Investopedia, More About Advertising, and NewsBytes
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| Wired: |
OpenAI reveals details of GPT-4o's safety testing, including concerns that its anthropomorphic voice may make some users emotionally attached to their chatbot — The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.
More: TechCrunch, OpenAI, Cointelegraph, The Verge, Neowin, and CoinGape
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell government cloud and AI tools, such as GPT-4, to US defense and intel agencies; Palantir plans to add its tools to Azure — Microsoft Corp. and Palantir Technologies Inc. are combining their government cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools …
More: Microsoft, The Verge, Maginative, Engadget, Barron's Online, FedScoop, Reuters, Nextgov/FCW, Quartz, CNBC, Neowin, and Constellation Research
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 1% YoY to $1.22B, vs. $1.25B est., net revenue up 4%, and expects sequential growth in net bookings in FY 2026 and FY 2027 — Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO.O) said on Thursday it expects to see sequential growth in its net bookings in fiscals 2026 and 2027 … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Hugging Face acquires XetHub, a collaboration platform started by ex-Apple employees who raised $7.5M to help developers work with and build large-scale models — Purchased for an undisclosed sum, XetHub is staffed by a number of former Apple employees. Hugging Face thinks …
More: Hugging Face, Seattle Business Journal, VentureBeat, GeekWire, and AIM
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LinkedIn: Rajat Arya, Ajit Banerjee, Brigitte Tousignant, Jeff Boudier, Aymeric Roucher, and Matt McIlwain. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google's DeepMind Robotics team shows a table tennis robot that it says is a “solidly amateur human-level player” when pitted against a human — Sports have long served as an important test for robots. The best-known example of the phenomenon may be the annual RoboCup soccer competition …
More: arXiv.org, How-To Geek, Ars Technica, Popular Science, The Decoder, and AIM. X: @googledeepmind
| Adam James / The Block: |
“Over the next few days”, Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to undo all trades following its July 18 withdrawal freeze, after hackers stole $230M+ in crypto — - WazirX announced plans to undo all trades following its withdrawal freeze on July 18.| TASS: |
Putin signs a law legalizing cryptocurrency mining in Russia; only Russian legal entities and individuals included in a register will have the right to mine — Only Russian legal entities and individual entrepreneurs included in a register will have the right to mine
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Japanese cybersecurity company Trend Micro, which has a market value of about $6.5B, is exploring a sale after attracting buyout interest — Trend Micro (4704.T), a Japanese cybersecurity firm with a market value of about 950 billion yen ($6.5 billion), is exploring a sale …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoundHound acquires Amelia, which makes an AI agent that businesses can customize for internal or customer use, for $80M; PitchBook: Amelia raised $189M+ — SoundHound, an AI company that makes voice interface tech used by car companies, restaurants and tech firms, is doubling …
More: FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, SoundHound, SiliconANGLE, and Benzinga
| CJ Fairfield / CRN: |
Tampa-based Rewst, which provides robotic process automation services, raised a $45M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $104M — 'I don't think we're ever done when it comes to improving the platform. I think it can continue to get better year over year … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok launches TikTok Spotlight, in-app hubs for movies and TV shows that add links to “applicable” videos with more info and where to watch, tested with Dune — TikTok will now create in-app hubs for movies and TV shows and place them directly on fan-made videos.| Financial Times: |
Similarweb: active UK Telegram users hit 3.1M on July 29 and 3.7M on July 30 after a stabbing, as rioters used chat apps, up from a ~2.7M average in early 2024 — Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups
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