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Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor says it cross-populates data between its services (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

    Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor says it cross-populates data between its services  —  Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users.  — … Read More »Users complain after Glassdoor started adding real names to profiles without explicit user consent; Glassdoor says it cross-populates data between its services (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

    Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+ (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

      Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+  —  Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that enables other companies… Read More »Solaris, which lets companies offer their own financial services via APIs, raised a €96M Series F led by SBI Group, bringing its total funding to €450M+ (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

      Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations (Kate Irwin/PCMag)

        Kate Irwin / PCMag: Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations  —  Google is training Gemini on health data, and it’s creating… Read More »Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations (Kate Irwin/PCMag)

        Source: Google’s Pixel 8a will have a 6.1″ 120Hz OLED display, Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort output support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a (Kamila Wojciechowska/Android Authority)

          Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: Source: Google’s Pixel 8a will have a 6.1″ 120Hz OLED display, Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort output support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a  —  The Pixel 8a’s major upgrades will make it… Read More »Source: Google’s Pixel 8a will have a 6.1″ 120Hz OLED display, Tensor G3 chip, DisplayPort output support, and the same camera sensor as the Pixel 7a (Kamila Wojciechowska/Android Authority)

          Sources: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund discussed a potential partnership with a16z and others to create a fund of about $40B to invest in AI in H2 2024 (New York Times)

            New York Times: Sources: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund discussed a potential partnership with a16z and others to create a fund of about $40B to invest in AI in H2 2024  —  The Middle Eastern country is creating a gigantic… Read More »Sources: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund discussed a potential partnership with a16z and others to create a fund of about $40B to invest in AI in H2 2024 (New York Times)

            Inflection won’t shut down Pi but will no longer focus on its consumer business, instead working with commercial customers to create, test, and tune AI systems (New York Times)

              New York Times: Inflection won’t shut down Pi but will no longer focus on its consumer business, instead working with commercial customers to create, test, and tune AI systems  —  Mustafa Suleyman is leaving a start-up called Inflection to take… Read More »Inflection won’t shut down Pi but will no longer focus on its consumer business, instead working with commercial customers to create, test, and tune AI systems (New York Times)

              After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

                Tripp Mickle / New York Times: After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans  —  After losing two complaints before the… Read More »After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

                Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu’s GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows (Jing Yang/The Information)

                  Jing Yang / The Information: Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu’s GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows  —  jing@theinformation.com Profile and… Read More »Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu’s GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows (Jing Yang/The Information)

                  Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)

                    Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app  —  Threads users in the U.S. will start seeing a “Trending now”… Read More »Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is rolling out a “Trending now” page for users in the US, under the search bar in the mobile app (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)

                    The US SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn (Adam James/The Block)

                      Adam James / The Block: The US SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn  —  – Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay… Read More »The US SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn (Adam James/The Block)

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