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Wall Street Journal: Sources: China’s muted response to TikTok bill reflects the view that TikTok is of less strategic value than Huawei; China prefers TikTok US closure to sale  —  Chinese officials have been relatively muted in defense of the app, while quietly signaling that they would prefer a ban to a sale Source link

Apple urged members of the California legislature to pass the “right to repair bill” or “Senate Bill 244” as currently drafted, in a letter on Tuesday, which requires manufacturers to allow customers to fix damaged devices. The iPhone maker’s move is a reversal from its years-long opposition towards access to repairs as the act would

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media probe found the apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images  —  Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past. Source link

Britain will host a global summit on artificial intelligence at the old home of Britain’s World War Two codebreakers in November as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pitches Britain as global leader in guarding the safety of the fast-developing technology. The summit will take place on November 1 and 2 at Bletchley Park, the site in

Bloomberg: A look at Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42, as sources say US intelligence officials fixated on CEO Xiao Peng ahead of its China divestment and Microsoft deal  —  Abu Dhabi-based G42 found it could no longer play for both teams.  —  G42, a startup in Abu Dhabi, has made itself … Source link

WhatsApp is working on a feature that could improve the experience of a user joining an existing group on the popular messaging app. A feature tracker has shared details of a new WhatsApp setting that will show up to 24 hours of messages from the group, before a member was added to the chat. The feature

Sean O’Kane / TechCrunch: The NHTSA closes a 2021 investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot and opens a new one to evaluate whether a December 2023 Autopilot recall fix is effective enough  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed a long-standing investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system … Source link

Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work, to comply with landmark European Union online content rules, the Alphabet unit said on Thursday. Known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the new rules are more onerous for Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Twitter, booking.com, Pinterest,

CoinDesk: Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the “unlawful seizure of authority” over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product  —  By offering their MetaMask wallet software, the SEC says Consensys is acting as an unregistered securities broker. Source link

Former US President Donald Trump returned to the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with a post on Thursday showing his mug shot from his booking at Fulton County Jail in Georgia earlier in the day. With his post appealing for donations, Trump reclaimed direct access to the public on the platform that