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Oura says it will see annual sales double to roughly $500M this year; sources: it plans to debut a new, thinner fitness ring with better battery life in October (Bloomberg)

California enacts an internet-connected car data privacy law to curb domestic violence, requiring carmakers to make it easier to submit restraining orders, more (Reuters)

Antenna: Netflix cancellations spiked for a few days in late July 2024 after Reed Hastings endorsed Kamala Harris and announced a $7M super PAC donation (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 2020 breach, facing the US SEC's charges that were largely dismissed in July, global cyber regulations, and more (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, September 30 (game #477)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047; source: Newsom vetoed because the bill applies only to large AI models and leaves others unregulated (Wall Street Journal)

Q&A with Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and Executive Chairman of Anduril, on autonomous AI's role in warfare, building a wearable e-reader, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Bumble, Muzz, and Match Group are pushing their friend-finding and community-building products to attract young users hit by so-called dating app fatigue (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Razer unveils the Kraken V4 Pro headset and a haptic seat cushion (yes, really) at RazerCon 2024

Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing its forced arbitration policy and allowing gamers to take legal action against its parent company Valve (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)

X is blocking links to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter with a hacked JD Vance dossier and suspended Klippenstein's X account for posting Vance's private info (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

The US FCC levies a $6M fine on Steve Kramer, who used AI to mimic Biden's voice and made thousands of robocalls to New Hampshire voters in early 2024 (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)

Sources: Robinhood and Revolut are exploring offering their own stablecoins; Tether's USDT has grown to $120B, accounting for over two-thirds of market value (Bloomberg)

Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Ujet, which uses AI to help businesses with customer support, raised $76M led by Sapphire Ventures, valuing the company at $500M, and promotes its COO to co-CEO (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has tried to unlawfully crush competitors, including PayPal and Square (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Sam Altman claims "deep learning worked", superintelligence may be "a few thousand days" away, and "astounding triumphs" will incrementally become commonplace (Sam Altman)

Researchers find a new version of Necro malware in Google Play apps with 11M+ total installs; Necro malware in 2019 was found in Play apps with 100M+ installs (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

Microsoft releases a progress report on its efforts to make security its top priority, which began in November 2023 after a scathing report from the US CSRB (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Sources: Apollo Global Management has offered to make an equity-like investment of as much as $5B in Intel (Bloomberg)

A profile of French billionaire Xavier Niel, a driving force of French AI and ByteDance's newest board member, who believes Europe should pursue homegrown AI (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Sources: TSMC and Samsung execs have visited the UAE and are considering building chip factories funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi's Mubadala (Wall Street Journal)

At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for "smart product regulation", more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)