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11:40 PM • Sean Hollister / The Verge: Western Digital refused to answer questions about how its portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs might lose all the data; the company is being sued over data-loss issues
10:50 PM • Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Cruise is complying with a California DMV request to cut its fleet by 50% as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise robotaxis
8:35 PM • Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: A district court judge upheld a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn’t eligible for copyright protection because it lacks human authorship
6:30 PM • David Ljunggren / Reuters: Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its “reckless” news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires
4:20 PM • Adi Robertson / The Verge: Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user’s X post about block vs. mute
4:05 PM • Pete Evans / CBC News: Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta’s news fight with Canada’s government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information
3:20 PM • Bloomberg: Draft IPO filing: Arm’s revenue fell 1% YoY to $2.68B in its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023; sources: Arm plans to sell ~10% of its shares in its listing
2:25 PM • Todd Spangler / Variety: Elon Musk Says X (aka Twitter) Will No Longer Let You Block Other Users
1:55 PM • Anirban Sen / Reuters: Sources: SoftBank acquired a 25% stake in Arm from its Vision Fund unit at a $64B valuation and plans to make the chip designer’s IPO filing public on August 21
12:05 PM • Bloomberg: Email: Amazon offers some creators up to $12,500 for 500 videos, or $25 per video, for its TikTok-like shopping feed; creators typically charge $200+ per video
11:25 AM • Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Viome, which sells supplements to customers based on AI-based assessments of their microbiomes, raised an $86.5M Series C, bringing its total funding to $175M
10:55 AM • David Jeans / Forbes: Credit card processor Checkout.com cuts its Binance contract short over regulatory “actions and orders in relevant jurisdictions” and money laundering concerns
10:20 AM • Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch plans to roll out a long-requested anti-harassment feature within weeks that automatically blocks a streamer’s banned users from watching their streams
9:25 AM • Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
8:50 AM • Manya Saini / Reuters: KPMG: Canadian fintech investments, including VC, private equity, and M&A, totaled $353.7M across 57 deals in H1 2023, vs. $834.1M across 109 deals in H1 2022
8:25 AM • Reuters: The European Commission plans to make a regulatory assessment of Qualcomm’s bid to acquire Israel-based fabless chipmaker Autotalks, first announced in May 2023
7:25 AM • Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix partners with Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecom operator, to bundle its Netflix Basic streaming tier with two of the carrier’s pay-as-you-go plans
5:20 AM • Simon Sharwood / The Register: Private equity firm EQT plans to take German software company SUSE private at €16/share, below its 2021 IPO’s €30 price but above August 17’s €9.6 closing price
5:00 AM • CNN: Lyft and Uber threaten to leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage ordinance by August 23 mandating at least $1.40/mile and $0.51/minute for drivers
4:45 AM • Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta updates Threads with a Repost tab on users’ profile pages and adds reposts to the reverse-chronological Following feed