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August 30, 2024, 4:05 AM

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Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg:
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice blocks Starlink bank accounts in Brazil in a bid to force Elon Musk to pay X's fines; the court has also threatened to block X  —  - Starlink bank accounts blocked to pay for fines on X  — Court threatens to block X for lack of Brazil representative
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with and use the AI assistant for their emails, on Android and soon on iOS  —  Gmail users on Android devices can now chat directly with Google's AI assistant, Gemini, about their emails in the Gmail app.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, the three most valuable tech companies, are in talks to join the funding round that would value OpenAI at over $100B  —  - Apple, Microsoft also have been in talks about participating  — Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
Ina Fried / Axios:
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL, a new AI model that it says can analyze videos longer than 20 minutes to summarize and answer questions about the videos' content  —  Alibaba Cloud, the cloud services and storage division of the Chinese e-commerce giant, has announced the release of Qwen2-VL …
More: QwenX: @alibaba_qwen, @altryne, @altryne, and @reach_vbForums: r/LocalLLaMA
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds to users aged 10 to 12 with parental approval, and rolls out a new age rating system for worlds to help parents supervise kids  —  As part of the rollout, parents will have a significant amount of control over what experiences their preteens can access …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Magic, which makes AI tools for coding and to automate software development tasks, raised $320M from Eric Schmidt and others, bringing its total raised to $465M  —  Magic, an AI startup developing models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Dell Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $25.06B, vs. $24.53B est., servers and networking revenue up 80% to $7.76B, net income up 85% to $841M; DELL rose 3%+ after hours  —  Dell reported quarterly results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, powered by an 80% increase in server sales.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US district judge dismisses, with prejudice, a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and Tesla of defrauding investors by hyping Dogecoin and conducting insider trading  —  Elon Musk and his electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O) won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing them of defrauding investors …

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