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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share Search data with rivals; GOOG jumps 8%+  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the company can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, News / Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffey, and others say the US v. Google remedies don't go far enough  —  ‘Google will still be allowed to continue to use its monopoly to hold back competitors, including in AI search,’ said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg.
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
US v. Google: letting Google continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and for Mozilla, which may have died without payments from Google  —  I had a sneaking suspicion today might be the day where Judge Amit Mehta would come back with the remedies in Google's antitrust trial.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
US v. Google: Judge Amit Mehta says “allowing Google to continue making payments is more palatable now” as GenAI companies “are in a better position” to compete  —  Now, Google can finally appeal the case. … Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser in order …
Lee-Anne Mulholland / Google:
Google says it is reviewing the US' ruling on Google Search distribution and has “concerns about how these requirements will impact our users and their privacy”  —  Earlier today a U.S. court overseeing the Department of Justice's lawsuit over how we distribute Search issued a decision on next steps.
Wall Street Journal:
A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple
New York Times:
As part of the US v. Google remedies ruling, Google must create a five-person antitrust technical committee to monitor its business practices for six years
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after its mobile app; it is slightly different than the mobile app, opening directly to a feed of Reels  —  The long-requested app will feature Reels prominently on the homepage. … After years of requests from users, Instagram will finally have a dedicated app for iPad.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Garmin unveils the $1,200+ Fenix 8 Pro, featuring new satellite and cellular communications tools, and a $2,000 microLED version, both shipping from September 8  —  Garmin Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded, top-of-the-line rugged smartwatch for hikers, days before Apple Inc.'s expected update to its own high-end timepiece.
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Finnish quantum computing startup IQM raised a ~$320M Series B led by Ten Eleven at a $1B+ valuation, and plans a US expansion and to scale its data centers  —  IQM, a Finnish quantum computing startup, has raised €275 million ($320 million) in venture capital funding …
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic:
Anti-piracy organization ACE says a joint operation with Egyptian law enforcement shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform  —  Streameast — the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform — has been shut down after a year long investigation …
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
Tests show Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes sent messages about sex, self-harm, and drugs to users aged 13 to 15  —  The chatbots made by users of Character.AI used recognizable synthetic voices for the stars.  —  Just now
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Polar debuts the $199 Polar Loop, a screenless fitness band to track activity, sleep, and more with no subscription, in three colors, shipping from September 10  —  Finnish fitness-hardware brand Polar Electro Oy unveiled a screen-free fitness band that looks like — and directly competes with …
Nena Farrell / Wired:
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: the $449 digital notepad has a spacious 7.3" color E Ink display and a slim design, but it is not ideal for lengthy notes  —  This miniaturized version of ReMarkable's colorful Paper Pro might just be my new favorite digital notepad.  —  Rating: … I love a list.
Julia Love / Bloomberg:
A profile of Ashish Vaswani, an Attention Is All You Need co-author and an Essential AI co-founder, who says the transformer-based labs are stifling innovation  —  Ashish Vaswani helped usher in modern AI.  Now he's wondering if we're doing it all wrong.  —  In March 2024 a group …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Nintendo repeatedly pushed back Switch 2's launch after its game designers asked for more time, believing focusing on gameplay beats advanced hardware  —  Earlier this year, Nintendo Co. was under growing pressure.  It had been eight long years since the release of the original Switch …
Bloomberg:
AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster  —  The $85 million funding round values Exa at $700 million.  —  The venture capital firm Benchmark is backing a new type …
VideoCardz.com:
Acer unveils the $3,999+ Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation with a Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip to run AI models locally, its first Mini AI workstation  —  Acer Veriton GN100 is a mini AI workstation built on NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell  —  It looks like NVIDIA CPU/GPU hardware …
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
A reporter shares how her mother, a kidney transplant patient in a small Chinese city, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it “more humane”  —  In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.  —  Every few months, my mother …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
OpenAI shuffles its executive roles and acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications  —  It was a big weekend for the ChatGPT-maker. … OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of OpenAI for Science, a new group with the goal of building an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”

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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

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