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A look at the M4 Macs coming this week; sources say Apple's home smart display will have an iMac G4-like base and a square screen about the size of two iPhones — Also: fresh details on the company's upcoming smart home device. — Apple kicks off a Mac overhaul this week that centers on new M4 chips.
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| Claire Jiao / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia bans iPhone 16 series sales, saying that Apple has not fulfilled its 40% local content requirements and invested ~$95M, below its ~$108M commitment — - Indonesia says Apple hasn't fulfilled investment pledges — Rivals Samsung, Xiaomi have set up local factories to comply
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Elon Musk says there's a “chance” that HW3, in millions of Teslas, “does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD” and floats free upgrades — Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn't actually know what it will take.
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| New York Times: |
How Jeff Bezos, who bought The Washington Post in 2013 and a DC mansion in 2016, never made a splash in the capital, visiting only on occasion for glitzy events — The billionaire made splashy purchases of The Washington Post and a mansion in Washington. But his status as a power player in the nation's capital was never realized.| Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong outlines an AI policy for finance and proposes an extension of a tax break on owning digital assets, as it seeks to become Asia's go-to financial hub — - Tax break law to be tabled by year-end: treasury secretary Hui — City was denied access by major AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini
More: HKEX, Bitcoin Insider, Blockhead, Blockonomi, and crypto.news
| Bloomberg: |
Trade data analysis: Mumbai-based Shreya Life Sciences exported 1,111 Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers with AI chips, worth $300M+, to Russia from April to August — Trade-tracking data show that the Indian firm is selling top-end Dell servers optimized for artificial intelligence to Russia.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Read AI, which uses AI to summarize meetings, emails, and more, raised a $50M Series B and launches a free Chrome extension, after a $21M Series A in April 2024 — Now that we have so many startups offering AI bots that can do everything from listening to your meetings and transcribing them …
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and GeekWire
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Loops, a fediverse TikTok competitor, begins accepting signups, plans to become open-source and integrate with ActivityPub, and seeks user donations — Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor.
More: TechIssuesToday.com, The Verge, Tech in Asia, and NewsBytes
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of ex-eBay and HP CEO Meg Whitman, who became US ambassador to Kenya in late 2021, as the US seeks to counterbalance Chinese tech influence in Africa — As ambassador to Kenya, the former eBay and HP CEO has made a priority of counterbalancing Chinese influence on the continent.
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| Financial Times: |
A UK judge sentences a 27-year-old man who used AI tool Daz 3D to create child sexual abuse imagery to 18 years in prison, a landmark prosecution over deepfakes — A man who used artificial intelligence technology to create child sexual abuse imagery was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday …
More: The Guardian, The Sun, and Daily Mail
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons, which has acquired distressed SaaS businesses like WeTransfer and Evernote, and plans to spend billions — Italian company Bending Spoons is buying up subscription tools like Evernote and WeTransfer and is ready to spend billions more.
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Netflix adds a Moments feature on iOS, letting users save, rewatch, and share scenes across Instagram, Snapchat, and others, and plans an Android launch soon — Netflix just added a way for you to watch that carriage scene from “Bridgerton” over and over and over again — and share it with your friends — without breaking a sweat.Sponsor Posts
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