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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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X: @lindayax and @catthekin
LinkedIn: Michael Follett, Sarah Kay Wiley, Marc Zander, Arielle Garcia, and Ruben Schreurs
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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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Forums: r/apple, r/macmini, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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| 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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| 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.’| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the UK is considering revisiting parts of the Online Safety Act to give authorities more power to force social media companies to curb harmful content — - Starmer has few existing levers to curb incendiary content — Officials consider revisiting key parts of Online Safety Act| David Ingram / NBC News: |
| Josh Self / Politics.co.uk: |
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Forums: r/LabourUK and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| 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.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI rolls out the ability for ChatGPT free users to create up to two images per day with DALL-E 3, after launching DALL-E 3 to Plus subscribers in October — OpenAI is going to let users of ChatGPT's free tier make up to two images per day with its DALL-E 3 model, the company announced on Thursday.| 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, CryptoGlobe, How-To Geek, Ars Technica, Popular Science, The Decoder, and AIM. X: @googledeepmind
| 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 … | Theo Wayt / The Information: |
TikTok and Pinterest partner with Amazon to let users buy items from Amazon ads without leaving the social media apps — Amazon's e-commerce business is huge but slow-growing, while shopping on social media has been taking off. That's prompted Amazon to look for ways to team up with popular social media apps.| 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE and Bloomberg
| 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, Engadget, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, New York Times, Cryptopolitan, The Information, CIO Dive, SiliconANGLE, The Crypto Times, Ars Technica, CNBC, Euractiv, VentureBeat, CRN, PYMNTS.com, ComputerWeekly.com, Benzinga, Proactive, The Guardian, Thurrott, Reuters, NewsBytes, Silicon Republic, Maginative, WinBuzzer, Bloomberg, and Bitcoin Insider
X: @auerdirk, @kayjebelli, and @laz_radic
| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
A look at Whisper CEO Michael Heyward's Medialab, which acquired Imgur and Genius and was sued by their founders and others for allegedly failing to honor deals — Whisper cofounder and CEO Michael Heyward's second company made a $1.1 billion business out of acquiring floundering startups like Imgur, Genius and Kik.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: enterprise AI company Glean is in advanced talks to raise $250M led by DST Global at a $4.5B valuation, about double its valuation from February 2024 — The $250 million investment would double the company's valuation from six months ago, a sign of continued enthusiasm for generative AI
More: PYMNTS.com
| AlleyWatch: |
NYC-based Cents, which provides business management and payments services for the laundry industry, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $77M+ — The garment care market is substantial, with an annual value of approximately $60B. Despite this large addressable market …
More: FinSMEs, Cents, Commercial Observer, VC News Daily, Axios, and Tech Funding News. LinkedIn: Cents
| 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
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