The US, UK, EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that the use of AI is "fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law" (Ingrid / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/us-… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p21#a24…

OpenAI says it now has 1M+ paid users for the corporate versions of ChatGPT, including ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu (Rachel Metz / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p22#a24…

YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect creators from having their likeness copied and plans to give creators controls over AI scraping (@sarahpereztc / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/you… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p23#a24…

Bluetooth SIG releases Bluetooth 6 spec with a Channel Sounding feature to let Find My apps from Apple and others locate items with centimeter-level accuracy (Ezza Ijaz / Wccftech) wccftech.com/bluetooth-6-0-… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p24#a24…

The UK's CMA launches an investigation into whether the sale of Oasis tickets on Ticketmaster breached consumer protection law, including via "dynamic pricing" (Helen Bushby / BBC) bbc.com/news/articles/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p25#a24…

Arkansas-based Laravel, known for its open-source PHP web framework released in June 2011 and which now has 35 employees, raised a $57M Series A from Accel (Allie Garfinkle / Fortune) fortune.com/2024/09/05/lar… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p26#a24…

As national legislation on deepfake porn crawls through Congress, 39 US states have introduced laws to deter the creation and sharing of nonconsensual deepfakes (Tori Elliott / Wired) wired.com/story/deepfake… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p27#a24…

Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered search feature in Google Photos announced in May, in "early access" to select customers in the US (@sarahpereztc / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/goo… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p28#a24…

The US imposes new export controls on critical tech, including quantum computing and semiconductor goods, aligning the US with Japan, Netherlands, other allies (Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p29#a24…

FCC filing: Larry Ellison will own 77.5% of Paramount Global parent company National Amusements after his son David completes the purchase of Paramount (chrispalmeri / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p30#a24…

The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU's Unit 29155, which is responsible for assassinations in Europe (Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) / Wired) wired.com/story/russia-g… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p31#a24…

Microsoft plans to use StopNCII's hash database to block revenge porn in Bing, joining Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pornhub, and OnlyFans (@zeffmax / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/mic… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p32#a24…

Spotify wins a long-running, complicated music rights case in US district court, where Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style claimed Spotify lacked proper licenses (Mark Savage / BBC) bbc.com/news/articles/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p33#a24…

Interviews with Marc Benioff and others about Salesforce's "hard pivot" to Agentforce, a platform for users to build and deploy AI agents in Salesforce apps (Sharon Goldman / Fortune) fortune.com/2024/09/05/sal… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p34#a24…

Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 47% YoY to $13.07B, vs. $12.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $14B, vs. $14.13B est.; AVGO drops 7%+ after hours (Larry Dignan / Constellation Research) constellationr.com/blog-news/insi… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p35#a24…

Sources: Intel is considering selling part of its 88% stake in Mobileye, and is also exploring options for its Network and Edge enterprise networking division (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p36#a24…

Salesforce agrees to acquire Own Company, which provides data management and protection services, for ~$1.9B in cash; Own was valued at $3.35B as of August 2021 (@kyle_l_wiggers / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/sal… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p37#a24…

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is working with Samsung and Google on a mixed-reality set of smart glasses linked to a smartphone (@arjunkharpal / CNBC) cnbc.com/2024/09/05/qua… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p38#a24…

Analysts raise questions over Brazilian digital bank Nubank's rising default rate, even as loans grow 28% YoY; ~60% of all Brazilian adults have Nubank's app (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p39#a24…

Pavel Durov calls his arrest by French authorities "misguided" and denies Telegram is an "anarchic paradise", in his first public comments since the detention (The Guardian) theguardian.com/technology/art… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240905/p40#a24…