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August 17, 2024, 11:05 AM

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Morgan Meaker / Wired:
Epic debuts the Epic Games Store on iOS in the EU, offering its games, including Fortnite, and plans to start onboarding third-party games starting in December  —  The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple's App Store for the first time.
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Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer:
Background check service National Public Data confirms a breach after hackers leaked a stolen database with millions of SSNs and other sensitive personal info  —  Background check service National Public Data confirms that hackers breached its systems after threat actors leaked a stolen database …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
OpenAI removed a cluster of Iranian accounts using ChatGPT for an influence campaign targeting the US elections, and says the effort didn't gain much traction  —  The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction.  —  OpenAI said on Friday that it had discovered …
Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
A US appeals court largely upholds a ruling blocking the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, finding parts of the law likely violate the First Amendment  —  The court found key parts of the landmark law probably violate the First Amendment, largely siding with an industry challenge.
Representative Nancy Pelosi:
Nancy Pelosi issues a statement in opposition to California's AI safety bill, saying it's “well-intentioned but ill-informed” and “more harmful than helpful”  —  San Francisco - Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement in opposition to California Senate Bill 1047:
Justin Bachman / Legal Dive:
A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI  —  A video creator alleges that the companies scraped his videos, and millions of others, without permission to help train their generative AI learning models.
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
Ericsson to sell its network portability and data exchange services unit Iconectiv to Koch Equity Development for $1B; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025  —  - Ericsson has been working to cut costs amid challenging market  — Koch Industries has long been a huge investor in tech firms
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Bloomberg:
A US judge temporarily blocks the launch of Venu Sports, the streaming service from Fox/WBD/Disney, a week before rollout, after Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit  —  US District Judge Margaret Garnett on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the $42.99-a-month service, Venu Sports …
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
The Biden administration approves $1.6B in CHIPS Act grants and $3B in loans for Texas Instruments, to help pay for one chip factory in Utah and two in Texas  —  - Funding will support $18 billion in spending in Texas, Utah  — Biden administration almost finished allocating chips grants
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The European Commission asks Meta for more information about its Content Library tool and API under the DSA, following Meta's decision to deprecate CrowdTangle  —  The Commission is seeking more information from Meta following its decision to deprecate its CrowdTangle transparency tool.

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