11:25 PM • | Washington Post: A look at the flood of “fancam” Kamala Harris videos and memes on short-form video platforms, echoing the “meme armies” that backed Donald Trump's campaigns |
10:40 PM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Self-driving startup Applied Intuition raised $300M+ as part of a secondary deal that allowed shareholders and employees to sell shares in the $6B company |
10:15 PM • | Denver Business Journal: Florida-based IntelePeer, which develops software to help businesses automate customer contact centers using AI, raised $140M in equity and debt |
9:55 PM • | Bloomberg: FTC's Lina Khan says open-weights AI models can promote competition and “liberate startups from the arbitrary whims of closed developers and cloud gatekeepers” |
9:30 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Binarly: UEFI Secure Boot is completely compromised on 200+ device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro due to a cryptographic key leak |
8:45 PM • | Associated Press: The US DOJ indicts a North Korean hacker, still at large, for his alleged role in the Andariel group's cyberattacks on US hospitals, NASA, and military bases |
8:20 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Kamala Harris joins TikTok, after an explosion of Harris memes since she announced her presidential run; her account has attracted 1.6M+ followers in ~16 hours |
7:45 PM • | Kali Hays / Fortune: Memo: Jack Dorsey plans a Block restructuring to remove business unit silos and group staff by function and warns that it may feel “disruptive or uncomfortable” |
7:30 PM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says 97% of Windows sensors are back online, about a week after CrowdStrike shipped a faulty update that bricked 8.5M Windows PCs |
7:15 PM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad blew up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names |
6:30 PM • | G.S Vasan / 91mobiles: Leaked promo materials reveal Pixel 9 series specs: all four phones get the Tensor G4, the Pixel 9 Pro comes in 6.3" and 6.8" models with 16GB of RAM, and more |
5:30 PM • | Reuters: Canalys: China's smartphone shipments rose 10% YoY in Q2, with Huawei's shipments up 41% YoY; Apple's market share in China dropped from 16% in Q2 2023 to 14% |
5:10 PM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon says a judge has dismissed a Washington state case, alleging that Amazon exposed warehouse workers to injuries, for lack of evidence |
4:50 PM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: Anthropic says it does not support California's AI safety bill and suggests changes, including a shift from “pre-harm enforcement” to “outcome-based deterrence” |
4:35 PM • | Epic Games: Epic plans to bring its mobile games to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and remove its games from the Galaxy Store to protest Samsung blocking sideloading by default |
4:25 PM • | Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: Russia says it will throttle YouTube download speeds on computers by 70% by the end of next week, as “a consequence of the anti-Russian policy of the host” |
3:50 PM • | Sarah Parvini / Associated Press: SAG-AFTRA announces a strike starting on Friday against major video game studios, including EA, after talks for a new contract broke down over AI protections |
3:15 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence apologizes for Sonos' redesigned app, which launched in May to widespread criticism, and promises biweekly app updates through the fall |
2:45 PM • | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says it partnered with publishers such as News Corp and The Atlantic to build its SearchGPT search tool; publishers can manage how their content appears |
2:35 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta says WhatsApp now has more than 100M MAUs in the US and that more than 50% of WhatsApp users in the country have an iPhone; WhatsApp has 2B+ MAUs globally |
2:16 PM • | Kylie Robison / The Verge: OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a GPT-4-powered search tool that can organize links and summarize its findings, limited to 10K users but eventually coming to ChatGPT |
2:00 PM • | Maia Spoto / Bloomberg: California's Supreme Court upholds Prop 22, allowing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other companies to keep classifying California drivers as independent contractors |
12:50 PM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: FTC's newly unredacted filings quote an Adobe exec comparing early termination fees to “heroin”; Adobe's Dana Rao says the person was not on the leadership team |
12:25 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Google updates its Gemini chatbot with Gemini 1.5 Flash and a 32K-token context window in its free tier, links to related content for some prompts, and more |
11:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Google DeepMind rolls out AlphaProof AI model, which specializes in math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an updated version of a model focused on geometry |
11:25 AM • | Victoria Song / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag |
11:05 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: in a few weeks, the EU is set to hit Meta with its first antitrust fine, for up to 10% of its 2023 global revenue, for tying Marketplace and Facebook |
10:35 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: The new Disney+, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle goes on sale in the US for $16.99 per month with ads and $29.99 per month without ads |
10:15 AM • | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool |
10:05 AM • | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Chainguard, which helps companies secure their software supply chain, raised a $140M Series C co-led by Redpoint, Lightspeed, and IVP at a $1.12B valuation |
9:50 AM • | Emilia David / VentureBeat: OpenAI details Rule-Based Rewards, a method it has been using to automate some model fine-tuning and cut down the time required to ensure a model behaves safely |
9:10 AM • | Financial Times: The UK FCA fines Coinbase £3.5M for providing payment services to 13K+ “high-risk” customers, in the agency's first enforcement action against a crypto company |
8:40 AM • | Sam Altman / Washington Post: We need a US-led global coalition of like-minded countries and a new strategy to ensure that a democratic vision for AI prevails over an authoritarian one |
8:15 AM • | Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: DefiLlama and Wintermute: the aggregate market cap of stablecoins crossed $164B for the first time since the collapse of Terra in May 2022; USDT is at $114.26B |
7:15 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Crunchbase: in H1 2024, generative AI startups raised $500M across 198 angel/seed deals, $8.7B across 39 early-stage deals, and $3.1B across 18 late-stage deals |
6:35 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: The Oversight Board urges Meta to refine its policies around AI-generated explicit images, following investigations into how the company handles such images |
6:15 AM • | TechCrunch: Google debuts new Maps features in India to help users easily navigate through flyovers and narrow roads, says it made an AI model specifically for Indian roads |
6:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Beijing-based AI startup Baichuan raised about $687M at a $2.8B valuation from investors, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen governments, and Alibaba |
4:10 AM • | Akila Quinio / Financial Times: Revolut secures a UK banking license, ending a more-than-three-year-long regulatory battle; the London-based fintech has ~9M UK customers and 45M+ globally |
2:30 AM • | Justine Calma / The Verge: A NASA-funded study of satellite data finds traffic-related NO2 pollution spiked ~20% near ~150K large US warehouses, which have proliferated due to e-commerce |
2:10 AM • | Michael Hennessey / Bloomberg: STMicro reports Q2 net revenue down 25.3% YoY to $3.23B and cuts its FY 2024 revenue outlook to $13.2B to $13.7B, down from a previous range of $14B to $15B |
1:55 AM • | Laura Dobberstein / The Register: India drops the 2% equalization levy on digital services offered by foreign companies starting August 1; the levy had become a point of contention with the US |
12:55 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: A group of 17 US lawmakers ask Meta to delay shutting down CrowdTangle for at least six months, saying that Meta Content Library has “significant limitations” |
12:40 AM • | New York Times: Analysis: since the start of Ukraine war in 2022, Russia obtained ~$4B worth of US restricted chips from 6K+ companies, including from shell firms in Hong Kong |
12:20 AM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Lakera, which helps enterprises protect generative AI apps from LLM vulnerabilities, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico, bringing its total funding to $30M |
12:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Enterprise financial software company OneStream's shares closed up 34.25% at $26.85 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a market cap of ~$6.2B, after a ~$490M IPO |
11:25 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Dazz, which provides AI-based cloud security remediation software for enterprises, raised $50M from Greylock and others, sources say at a ~$400M valuation |
10:25 PM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: ServiceNow President CJ Desai leaves the company after an internal probe found he violated company policy related to a US contract and an ex-Army CIO's hiring |
10:05 PM • | Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: Meta removes ~63K Instagram accounts used by sextortion scammers in Nigeria, along with ~7,200 Facebook accounts, Pages, and Groups linked to the Yahoo Boys |
9:55 PM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft says “Bing stopped crawling Reddit” after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 to prohibit “all crawling of their site” |
9:35 PM • | Dana Hull / Bloomberg: Elon Musk's X poll asking whether Tesla should invest $5B in xAI ends with 67.9% voting yes, after Musk said on Tesla's earnings call that he supported the idea |
8:55 PM • | Reuters: SK Hynix Q2: revenue up 125% YoY to ~$11.86B, operating profit of ~$3.96B, its highest quarterly profit in six years, and sees further rising chip demand in H2 |
7:45 PM • | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: AMD delays its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch, originally set for July, to August due to an unspecified quality issue, and pulls back all shipped units to replace them |
7:15 PM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Privacy-focused developer Proton debuts a self-custody bitcoin wallet, its first cryptocurrency product, initially for early access Proton Visionary subscribers |
6:35 PM • | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft unveils Bing generative search, which shows LLM-generated answers with the sources used to create them, currently available to a small subset of users |
5:05 PM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: AltStore PAL now offers third-party iOS apps in the EU, starting with two torrenting apps, a social discovery app for dating, and a PC emulator |
4:45 PM • | Bloomberg: IBM reports Q2 revenue up 2% YoY to $15.8B, vs. $15.6B est., and says bookings for AI consulting and software have exceeded $2B since mid-2023, vs. $1B in Q1 |
4:30 PM • | Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Around 500 World of Warcraft workers vote to unionize with the CWA, bringing the number of unionized US gaming employees at Microsoft to around 1,750 |
4:00 PM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple launches Apple Maps on the web in beta, available in English and compatible with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, and Chrome and Edge on Windows PCs |
3:20 PM • | Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Mistral announces Mistral Large 2, the new generation of its flagship model, with 123B parameters; commercial usage requires a separate license |
2:40 PM • | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and others are not showing recent Reddit results |
2:05 PM • | Reuters: Atos appoints its chairman Jean Pierre Mustier as CEO to replace departing boss Paul Saleh, in its fifth top management reshuffle in less than two years |
1:25 PM • | Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian: Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike's faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B |
12:55 PM • | Alex Konrad / Forbes: Airtable launches Cobuilder, which can generate apps from text prompts and match them to relevant data and customer information already stored within Airtable |
12:00 PM • | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: All Raise: ~18% of US VC firms have at least one female partner, double from 2018; PitchBook says female founders had almost 28% of total US deal value in 2023 |
11:35 AM • | Michael Peel / Financial Times: Researchers suggest that using “synthetic” data, created by AI systems to train LLMs, could lead to the rapid degradation of AI models and a collapse over time |
11:25 AM • | Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI unveils Stable Video 4D, a model based on its Stable Video Diffusion model that takes video input and generates videos from eight new perspectives |
10:40 AM • | Matt Day / Bloomberg: Early Microsoft Copilot adopters say the AI assistants excel at distilling information but require cleaning up corporate data and lots of employee training |
10:15 AM • | Financial Times: The US NCSC warns US tech startups that “foreign threat actors”, including China, might use private investment to exploit them and threaten national security |
9:55 AM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 review: very good battery life, easy multitasking, and seven years of updates, but a narrow cover screen, and bulky, heavy, and expensive |
9:40 AM • | Alexander Martin / The Record: Law enforcement officials and experts: criminal groups are shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service platforms after disruption operations and an exit scam |
9:15 AM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Google updates the Play Store on Android to add categorized “Collections” that show installed app content, expand Play Pass, and add curated comics in Japan |
8:35 AM • | Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Compliance startup Vanta raised a $150M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $2.45B valuation, up from $1.6B in 2022, to accelerate adding AI to its products |
8:25 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Twitch introduces new policy and moderation updates to curb sexual harassment, including making its policy “easier to understand” and adding moderation tools |
8:15 AM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: The Overture Maps Foundation, backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, TomTom, and others, releases four global open maps datasets; Transportation remains in beta |
7:50 AM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: LA-based Pearl, an FDA-approved startup that uses AI to assist dentists to make diagnoses, raised a $58M Series B led by Left Lane Capital at a $400M valuation |
7:30 AM • | Giulio Piovaccari / Reuters: Ferrari plans to accept crypto payments for its cars at European dealers from the end of July, and internationally by the end of 2024, expanding on the US |
6:35 AM • | New York Times: Kamala Harris took a leading White House role on AI, including meeting executives; a Harris win could mean a continued relatively smooth runway for AI companies |
6:10 AM • | Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Google's failed deal with Wiz, and with HubSpot before that, puts Google in an awkward spot to grow Cloud; Wiz staff are likely upset at missing a big payday |
5:45 AM • | New York Times: A profile of Blake Benthall, arrested in 2014 for running Silk Road 2.0, which had 1.7M users and $8M/month sales, as he promotes his crypto startup Fathom(x) |
4:50 AM • | Phil Serafino / Bloomberg: French cybersecurity company Exclusive Networks receives a binding buyout proposal from private equity firms CD&R and Permira valuing Exclusive at ~€2.2B |
4:30 AM • | Jillian Ambrose / The Guardian: Irish government data: data centers in Ireland used 21% of the country's electricity in 2023, up 20% YoY, topping the 18% of electricity used by all urban homes |
4:15 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: A dip in rental profits and a shift to longer stays has led some US hosts and property managers to circumvent Airbnb, including asking guests to book directly |
2:40 AM • | Politico: Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris could provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington, DC, toward Big Tech companies |
2:30 AM • | Simon Sharwood / The Register: CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that brought down 8.5M Windows PCs was deployed into production due to “a bug in the Content Validator” |
2:20 AM • | Reuters: Foxconn announces plans to invest $137.5M to construct a new business HQ in Zhengzhou, China, after signing a contract with the Henan provincial government |
1:35 AM • | Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: enterprise financial software maker OneStream raised $490M after pricing its IPO at $20/share, above its $17-$19 marketed range, for a $4.6B valuation |
12:50 AM • | Eva Dou / Washington Post: Elon Musk says Starlink service is now active in a hospital in Gaza, reflecting Israel's reluctance for Gaza residents to have internet access more broadly |
12:40 AM • | Kelly Le / South China Morning Post: In an effort to compete with Shein and Temu, Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall offer qualified merchants, selling goods in the fashion category, free overseas shipping |
11:15 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India scraps “angel tax” for all classes of investors, a major victory to the country's startup ecosystem that had lobbied for years against the measure |
10:35 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Seattle-based QA Wolf, which helps companies automate QA testing for apps, raised a $36M Series B and opens a waitlist for Android and iOS test automation |
9:50 PM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue down 16% YoY to $3.82B and forecasts Q3 revenue in line with analysts' estimates of $4.14B, easing fears of a chip downturn |
9:25 PM • | Keith Broni / Emojipedia: X reverts its water pistol emoji back to a firearm on the web, after Twitter originally switched the pistol emoji from a realistic-looking handgun in 2018 |
9:00 PM • | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Meta says it will allow developers to use the outputs from Llama models, including Llama 3.1 405B, to improve other models for the first time |
8:40 PM • | Eva Roytburg / Fortune: Elon Musk says “I am not donating $45M a month to Trump” and that he created America PAC to support Trump, without revealing how much he is donating |
7:55 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Level AI, maker of AI-powered tools to automate customer service tasks, raised a $39.4M Series C led by Adams Street Partners, taking its total raised to $73.1M |
7:45 PM • | Reuters: Sources: Samsung's HBM3 chips have been cleared by Nvidia for use in its H20 GPU, developed for the Chinese market; HBM3E chips are still being tested |
6:45 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Mytra, a startup building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, emerges from stealth with $78M in total funding |
6:35 PM • | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Alphabet reports Other Bets Q2 revenue of $365M, up from $285M in Q2 2023, a $1.13B loss, up from $813M YoY, and announces a “multiyear” $5B investment in Waymo |
6:20 PM • | Bloomberg: US spot ether ETFs hit $1B+ in trading volume across nine funds, a strong debut but far from the $4.6B traded during the spot bitcoin ETFs debut in January 2024 |
6:05 PM • | The Information: Internal messages: Meta staff complained about Threads' algorithm limiting political posts, after the For You page was slow to show news of Biden dropping out |
5:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the Google-Wiz deal failed, in part, due to antitrust fears and CrowdStrike's outage, which increased the potential value of cloud security companies |
5:20 PM • | Benjamin S. Weiss / Courthouse News Service: US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will take up the Kids Online Safety Act this week, signaling there's enough support among his colleagues |
4:40 PM • | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google Cloud Q2 revenue grew 29% YoY to $10.35B, vs. $10.2B est.; Cloud exceeded $10B in quarterly revenues and $1B in operating profit for the first time |
4:30 PM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: YouTube Q2 ad revenue grew 13% YoY to $8.66B, vs. $8.93B est.; Google's subscriptions, platforms, and devices unit that includes YouTube TV had revenue of $9.3B |
4:16 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI has reassigned Aleksander Madry, the head of its Preparedness AI safety team, to a role within its research organization focusing on reasoning |
4:07 PM • | Alphabet: Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $84.7B, net income up 29% YoY to $23.6B, Search revenue of $48.5B, up from $42.6B YoY, headcount down 1% to 179,582 |
4:05 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Daniel Ek says Spotify is working on a deluxe Spotify tier, costing around $17 to $18, that has “a lot more control, a lot higher quality across the board” |
3:50 PM • | The Hollywood Reporter: Comcast reports Peacock Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $1B, and a $348M loss, down from $651M in Q2 2023; paying subs were up 38% YoY to 33M but down from 33.5M in Q1 |
2:30 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Harvey, which is building an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, raised a $100M Series C led by GV that values it at $1.5B and brings its total funding to $206M |
2:00 PM • | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: dYdX says v3, an older version of its DeFi crypto exchange that is reportedly for sale and averages ~$1.5B/week in derivatives trading, “has been compromised” |
1:25 PM • | Brian Merchant / Wired: A staffer at Activision Blizzard, which had layoffs in 2024 affecting many 2D artists, says some remaining artists were “forced to use AI to aid in their work” |
1:15 PM • | Mark Zuckerberg / Meta: Mark Zuckerberg argues that “open source AI” is the path forward, closed models are vulnerable to vendor lock-in and state-backed espionage, and more |
12:50 PM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Meta plans to roll out its AI assistant to the Quest in August, limited to US and Canada users in experimental mode, after debuting on the Ray-Ban smart glasses |
12:25 PM • | Suzanne Smalley / The Record: The US FTC seeks info from Mastercard, Accenture, and six other companies related to their “surveillance pricing products” that use personal data, AI, and more |
12:15 PM • | Financial Times: Meta VP Rob Sherman confirms a report that Meta received an EU request to pause future AI model training on data in the EU, and says the EU may get left behind |
12:05 PM • | Chris Morris / Fortune: Netflix last week reported it is developing 80 games, most “interactive narrative games” based on its IP, and will debut one a month; Netflix offers 100+ games |
11:52 AM • | The Information: Sources: Apple is working on a foldable, clamshell-design iPhone that could debut as soon as 2026, and reached out to Asian component suppliers in recent months |
11:12 AM • | Bloomberg: Meta debuts Llama 3.1 405B, the “first frontier-level open source AI model”, as well as new Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models, and says it's working on Llama 4 |
9:45 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Posh, an iOS app that offers a TikTok-like vertical feed of events, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M, and claims 2M registered users |
9:30 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe rolls out new Illustrator features like Generative Shape Fill, powered by its latest Firefly Vector model now in beta, and new and updated Photoshop tools |
8:25 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Vancouver-based Clio, which makes cloud tools to help law firms run more efficiently, raised a $900M Series F at a $3B valuation, up from $1.6B in April 2021 |
8:10 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon begins rolling out a new UI for Prime Video to help distinguish content included with Prime, update its navigation bar, manage subscriptions, and more |
7:30 AM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Dragos details a sample of Russia-linked malware used in a hack in January 2024 to target a heating utility in Lviv, Ukraine, cutting service to 600 buildings |
7:15 AM • | Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: Swiss computer hardware maker Logitech reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $4.34B and expects 2024 sales up 1% to 3%, up from 0% to 2% previously forecast |
7:00 AM • | Neal E. Boudette / New York Times: GM says Cruise restarted test operations in three US cities after a vehicle dragged a pedestrian in October 2023, and suspends developing its Cruise Origin cab |
6:50 AM • | Michael Peel / Financial Times: Google Research and others detail NeuralGCM, a model combining ML and weather forecasting tools that produced a breakthrough in accurate long-range predictions |
6:40 AM • | David Shepardson / Reuters: A five-month FCC investigation finds AT&T's February 2024 outage that lasted 12+ hours blocked 92M+ voice calls and prevented 25K+ attempts to reach 911 |
6:30 AM • | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU opens an in-depth investigation into Delivery Hero and its Spanish subsidiary Glovo to determine if they may have illegally colluded with each other |
6:20 AM • | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to €3.8B, MAUs up 14% YoY to 626M, subscribers up 12% YoY to 246M, above est., and €266M operating income; SPOT jumps 12%+ |
6:05 AM • | Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Mozilla and AI Forensics: TikTok Lite, launched in 2018 and aimed at poorer markets, leaves AI-generated content unlabeled and lacks other similar safeguards |
5:55 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Leaked images show the upcoming “Google TV Streamer”, a set-top box with a pill-shaped design, to replace the dongle form factor, and an updated, longer remote |
5:45 AM • | Reuters: India plans to cut import duty on mobile phones and some key parts from 20% to 15%, a move that will directly benefit Apple, as part of its 2024/2025 budget |
5:35 AM • | Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: NXP Semiconductors reports Q2 revenue down 5% YoY to $3.13B, automotive chip sales down 7% YoY, and forecasts Q3 revenue below $3.35B est.; NXPI drops 9%+ |
4:15 AM • | Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: Scientists hunt for clues about China's supercomputing progress as Chinese scientists turn secretive and stop participating in the Top500, after US sanctions |
2:00 AM • | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: A profile of Nick Pickles, who has recently been promoted to X's VP of global affairs; sources say Pickles has become the right-hand man to CEO Linda Yaccarino |
1:15 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Malaysia plans to require social media and messaging apps to register for a renewable license starting late 2024; Singapore asks online platforms to curb scams |
12:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok plans to launch TikTok Shop in Spain and Ireland as early as October; the rollout will be smaller than previously envisioned amid EU scrutiny |