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Fact-checking sites have been declining worldwide as social media platforms cut back on disinformation efforts, and bogus AI-generated content thrives online (New York Times)

Nick Clegg says Meta used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new AI assistant and took steps to filter private details from training datasets (Katie Paul/Reuters)

Filing: LG suspends the inclusion of ATSC 3.0, an IP-based broadcast system, in its 2024 lineup of US TVs due to a "challenging and uncertain patent landscape" (Jeff Baumgartner/Light Reading)

Between ChatGPT's surprisingly human voice and Meta's AI characters, we may be witnessing the rise of social networks populated by synthetic companions (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Filing: Robinhood says it expects a $100M charge in Q3 to resolve some legal and regulatory matters that were previously disclosed (Reuters)

A Canadian appeals court rules that Google's search engine is covered by federal privacy law, which could give Canadians the "right to be forgotten" on Google (Sean Fine/Globe and Mail)

A look at FTX 2.0 Coalition, a group of creditors led by FTX CEO John Ray III that has almost 3,000 members and is looking to relaunch the exchange without SBF (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Researchers report critical vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent allowing remote code execution; Exim is used by as many as 253K servers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long, which has been trained with longer sequences, outperforming GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 when responding to long user prompts (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Letter: SEC told Bolt that it will likely not face any enforcement action after a ~15 month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws during fundraising (Forbes)

Sources: Jasper, which offers AI writing tools for marketers, slashed its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B and cut its $140M 2023 ARR projections by 30%+ (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

MakerDAO has passed a proposal that will allow it to invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023 (Bloomberg)

In an interview using Meta's photorealistic Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg talks about the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future (Lex Fridman/Lex Fridman Podcast)

Sources: Microsoft discussed selling Bing to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search engine on Apple's devices (Bloomberg)

Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Enflame raised a ~$273.7M Series D from state capital operator Shanghai International Group's funds, Tencent, Meitu, and others (DealStreetAsia)

Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google plans to wind down its collaborative Jamboard app starting October 2024 and end support for its $5K, 55" Jamboard meeting room display on September 2024 (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Google rolls out ChromeOS 117 with a Material You redesign, adaptive charging, a new camera and microphone privacy indicator, an improved clipboard, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: classic look, better camera makes a big difference, some audio leakage, and a promising tool for content creators (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Meta unveils a Meta AI assistant for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, and 28 AI characters based on celebrities like MrBeast, Charli D'Amelio, and Snoop Dogg (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Over a dozen senior execs left Binance over the past three months; Kaiko: Binance handled ~70% of all direct crypto trades at year's start, now it handles ~50% (Wall Street Journal)

An OpenAI paper on GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, shows some of the biases, shortcomings, and dangers of the model, and OpenAI's efforts to add safeguards (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Review of macOS 14 Sonoma: a better stab at usable widgets, improved password manager, promising gaming enhancements, but more features are skipping Intel Macs (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Eddie Cue's US v. Google testimony: Cue said Google was the only "valid" search choice for a deal; the DOJ noted Apple railed against Google's privacy policies (David Pierce/The Verge)

Investigation: some stakeholders, like AI firms selling CSAM scanning tech, funded lobbying efforts for EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson's CSAM scanning proposal (Balkan Insight)

Email: YouTube plans to stop offering its ad-free €6.99/month Premium Lite tier, launched in select European countries in August 2021, after October 25, 2023 (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)