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Associated Press:
Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country  —  SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …
New York Times:
Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app in Brazil and says those using a VPN to access X would face a fine of ~$9,000 a day  —  The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Sources: Amazon's revamped “Remarkable” Alexa, due for release in October 2024, will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude, and cost $5 to $10 per month  —  Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily …
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely  —  It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I've ever needed to write here at AnandTech.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Intel explores options after a 50%+ stock drop YTD, including splitting its product and foundry units and potentially scrapping some factory projects  —  - Once-dominant chipmaker looks to longtime bankers for help  — Possible moves could include scrapping some factory projects
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
The City of Columbus, OH, sues security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of sharing data stolen by a ransomware gang with media  —  The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a now-patched zero-day in a Chromium core engine to steal crypto from organizations  —  A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome to target organizations with the goal …
New York Times:
Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta  —  The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app's approach to privacy and security.
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors  —  Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider funding round that would value start-up at more than $100bn
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google says Search AI Overviews, Gemini image generation, and other AI products will not respond to election-related topics ahead of the US elections  —  Google is gearing up for the upcoming U.S. presidential election by rolling out safeguards for more of its generative AI products.
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent and NetEase reconsider or scale back Japanese game studio investments, after yielding few hit games and the Chinese market staged a comeback  —  - China's biggest game publishers are rethinking expansion plans  — ‘Wukong’ success also encouraged looking domestically for hits

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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A US judge orders a temporary halt to the Paramount-WBD merger, as a 12-state coalition, led by California, argues it would violate federal antitrust law

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Unsealed docs: the DOJ sought phone records of NYT reporters and their relatives in an extraordinary attempt to unmask sources of NYT's Air Force One coverage

MJ Franklin / New York Times:
How publishers are cashing in on surging public interest in The Odyssey through splashy reissues; Circana BookScan says sales of The Odyssey rose by 76% YoY

More News

Kalley Huang / The Information:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's “growing quickly” even without a rollout “in UK, Brazil, or EU yet”
Rachel Graf / Bloomberg:
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk's statements were “aspirational”
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
A look at Google's HeAR, a bioacoustics health care AI model trained on 300M sounds, including 100M coughs, to analyze patients' coughs and detect tuberculosis

Earlier Picks

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' contents
More: Qwen, SiliconANGLE, and Neowin
X: @alibaba_qwen, @reach_vb, @altryne, and @altryne.  LinkedIn: Tim Gilday.  Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out Gmail Q&A, a feature that allows users who pay for Gemini to chat with the AI assistant about their emails, on Android and “coming soon to iOS”
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Bridge, which aims to build a global payment network around stablecoins, raised $40M led by Sequoia and Ribbit, taking its total funding to $58M
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
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group
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