Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
ByteDance hires a new global general counsel, John Rogovin, who spent 12 years as Warner Bros.’ top lawyer and worked in the US FCC and DOJ — – Former Warner Bros. lawyer John Rogovin takes top legal job — TikTok sued the US in May over law to require sale or ban
Coinbase says it has donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake SuperPAC; Fairshake has raised ~$161M for 2024’s US election from a16z, Ripple, and others (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Coinbase says it has donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake SuperPAC; Fairshake has raised ~$161M for 2024’s US election from a16z, Ripple, and others — Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake …
Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling — Instagram confirmed it’s testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media. These new ad breaks will display a countdown timer …
Sources: LoanSnap, an AI mortgage startup that raised ~$100M, has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo, and state and federal agencies (TechCrunch)
TechCrunch:
Sources: LoanSnap, an AI mortgage startup that raised ~$100M, has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo, and state and federal agencies — The company’s backers include Reid Hoffman, Richard Branson and the Chainsmokers — AI mortgage startup LoanSnap is facing …
Amazon details Project PI, which is active in several warehouses and uses computer vision to detect if products are damaged or don’t meet buyers’ criteria (Emilia David/The Verge)
Emilia David / The Verge:
Amazon details Project PI, which is active in several warehouses and uses computer vision to detect if products are damaged or don’t meet buyers’ criteria — Amazon’s Project PI, or “Private Investigator,” setup combines generative AI and computer vision to “see” damage on products or determine …
An internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013-2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes made at the company (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
An internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013-2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes made at the company — Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
Sonos Ace review: the $449 headphones are stylish and comfortable with good sound and ANC, but can’t be grouped with its speakers and TV Audio Swap is glitchy (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos Ace review: the $449 headphones are stylish and comfortable with good sound and ANC, but can’t be grouped with its speakers and TV Audio Swap is glitchy — The first headphones from Sonos deliver on comfort, sound, and more — with a unique TV Audio Swap feature that’s very convenient (when it works).
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more — Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games (Andrew Webster/The Verge)
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games — The PlayStation VR2’s PC adapter is now official. Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter …
Antenna: Spotify users are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services in the US, with a ~2% monthly churn rate, similar to Netflix (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Antenna: Spotify users are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services in the US, with a ~2% monthly churn rate, similar to Netflix — Its customers are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services. — Good afternoon from Chicago …
