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September 10, 2024, 9:45 PM

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Sources: OpenAI aims to release Strawberry, its reasoning-focused AI, within two weeks as a model that users can pick in ChatGPT; the model isn't yet multimodal  —  Strawberry, OpenAI's reasoning-focused artificial intelligence, is coming sooner than we thought.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
The European Court of Justice rules against Apple over a record €13B Irish tax bill, confirming a 2016 decision; filing: Apple will incur a ~$10B charge in Q4  —  Europe's top court on Tuesday ruled against Apple in the tech giant's 10-year court battle over its tax affairs in Ireland.
Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI:
Waymo: its cars in Phoenix and SF had 48% fewer crashes/mile than humans and 73% fewer injury-causing ones; humans rear-ended Waymos in 16 of the 23 worst ones  —  It's Autonomy Week!  This is the second of five articles exploring the state of the self-driving industry.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
A total of 42 state and territory AGs call on Congress to pass legislation requiring warning labels on social networks that warn of social media's risks to kids  —  A coalition of 42 state and territory attorneys general is calling on Congress to pass regulation requiring warning labels on social media platforms.
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft says it has demonstrated, with Quantinuum, logical operations with the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet, and partners with Atom Computing  —  Microsoft boosts error correction on Quantinuum machine, parters with Atom Computing.  —  On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google starts rolling out a Google One “Lite” plan in India that offers 30GB storage for Rs. 59, or ~$0.70, per month  —  Google has started rolling out a “Lite” plan for Google One that has a small storage bump, and an even smaller cost.  —  A Google One subscription grants …
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services  —  - EU judges uphold lower court ruling in shopping case  — Google was accused by EU of abusing its dominant position
Justine Calma / The Verge:
Google plans to buy carbon removal credits from direct air capture provider Holocene for $100 per ton, far below current prices, for delivery by the early 2030s  —  Google just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around …
Washington Post:
Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls  —  The X billionaire's false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls …
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Apple unveils two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming September 20  —  At any Apple event, new AirPods are never a given.  The earbuds have been around nearly as long as the Apple Watch …
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