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A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9 — A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
The judge in the Google monopoly ruling says he'll take until August 2025 to determine remedies in the case and asks the DOJ to propose fixes by the end of 2024 — After ruling against Google last month, Judge Amit P. Mehta said he would take until next August to determine fixes that the company must make.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
HyperWrite CEO unveils Reflection 70B, based on Llama 3.1 70B Instruct and trained using reflection-tuning, and says it beats GPT-4o in all benchmarks tested — There's a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content — YouTube “terminated” Tenet Media and other channels run by Lauren Chen, a conservative influencer linked to allegations that Russia paid for right-wing content in the U.S.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta details its plans for WhatsApp and Messenger interoperability with third-party apps in the EU, with group chats in 2025 and voice and video calling in 2027 — Meta on Friday published an update on how it plans to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European law that aims …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Roblox plans a generative AI tool to let creators make 3D scenes using text prompts, and announces new social features like Party and Music Charts — At the annual Roblox Developers Conference, the company announced on Friday a series of upcoming changes coming to the platform in the next few months and years.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
S&P Global announces that Dell and Palantir will join the S&P 500, effective on September 23, 2024; DELL jumps 5%+ and PLTR jumps 7%+ after hours — Dell and Palantir both jumped about 7% in extended trading Friday after S&P Global announced that the companies would join the S&P 500 index.
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| Megan Cassella / CNBC: |
In a letter, Kamala Harris is endorsed for president by 88 corporate leaders, including Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen — @IN/MEGAN-CASSELLA-BA02A160/ @MMCASSELLA — Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Telegram says the app's source code has not changed, and its FAQ has been changed only to make it clearer how to report content on Telegram, including via DSA — Telegram has quietly removed language from its FAQ page saying private chats were protected and that “we do not process any requests related to them.”
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Chris McKay / Maginative: |
Replit launches Replit Agent, an AI agent that can build entire apps from scratch based on prompts, available in beta to Replit Core and Teams subscribers — Replit has launched an AI agent capable of building entire applications from scratch. This isn't just another copilot coding assistant …
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| Financial Times: |
Companies and customers say the cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips is lower in China than in the US despite the export controls — Supply of processors helps Chinese start-ups advance artificial intelligence technology despite Washington's restrictions
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A look at LMSYS' Chatbot Arena and the issues surrounding the crowdsourced LLM benchmark platform, including biases, lack of transparency, and commercial ties — Human raters bring their biases — Over the past few months, tech execs like Elon Musk have touted the performance … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: four iPhone 16 models, two AirPods models, Apple Watch Series 10 with a thin body, Apple Intelligence, and more — Company also planning major updates for AirPods and watches. … The event kicks off from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. local time.
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