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French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities — A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.
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| Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico: |
French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision” — French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Viggle, developer of 3D-video foundation model JST-1, raised a $19M Series A led by a16z; Viggle says the model is trained on public sources, including YouTube — You might not know Viggle AI, but you've likely seen the viral memes it created. The Canadian AI startup is responsible … | Bloomberg: |
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Apple announces CFO Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025; Kevan Parekh, Apple's VP of Financial Planning and Analysis, will become CFO — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025.
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| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber a record €290M for failing to abide by European protection standards when sending sensitive driver data to the US — - Uber was fined for not sufficiently protecting driver data — The fine is the highest penalty ever issued by Dutch regulator
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces a September 9 event at Apple Park with the iPhone 16 lineup, new Apple Watch models, and AirPods 4 expected; the invitation says “It's Glowtime” — Apple today announced plans to hold its annual iPhone-centric event on Monday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic publishes a changelog for the system prompts of its Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku models, the first major AI vendor to do so — Generative AI models aren't actually human-like. They have no intelligence or personality — they're simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence.
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| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
OpenAI supports CA bill AB 3211 to require companies generating AI content to add watermarks; the bill passed in the state Assembly 62-0 and heads to Senate — ChatGPT developer OpenAI is supporting a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content … | Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM shuts down its China R&D department, affecting 1,000+ staff, and plans to move the R&D functions overseas, the latest company to retreat from China — Jobs to be added in India, employees are told — IBM is shutting down its China research and development department …
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wukong sold 10M copies in just 83 hours, one of the fastest game debuts in history, earning an estimated $450M+ — - Adventure title has one of the fastest game launches ever — Strong debut signals China's games industry turning a corner
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| The Information: |
An overview of AI startups largely founded by former AI researchers from Google, including Reka, Ideogram, H, and Inflection, and the challenges they are facing — Dozens of former artificial intelligence researchers from Google who struck out on their own are learning that startups are tricky.| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Ikea launches Ikea Preowned, an online marketplace for customers to sell secondhand furniture to each other, testing in Madrid and Oslo until the end of 2024 — Furniture retailer challenges digital classified ads ‘oligopoly’ with peer-to-peer sales platform for its products
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| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
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