data.ai: Bluesky hits a million downloads globally across iOS and Android, roughly four months after launch; Bluesky has been installed ~300k since June 30 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
July 7, 2023
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People’s Bank of China fines Ant Group ~$984M for violations in payment, settlement, anti-money laundering, and fund sales businesses, ending a years-long probe (Bloomberg)
July 7, 2023
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Apple removed several predatory lending apps from India’s App Store; some of the apps reached the finance list’s top 20 despite hundreds of negative reviews (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
July 7, 2023
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Crypto bridging protocol Multichain confirms a $130M exploit affecting user-supplied tokens and recommends “all users suspend the use of Multichain services” (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
July 7, 2023
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Huawei unveils Pangu Model 3.0, its new AI model for cloud computing in operations, product R&D, and software engineering, based on its own hardware and chips (Nikkei Asia)
July 7, 2023
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Some EU-based Instagram users, including football clubs and media companies, are accessing Threads despite Meta not having launched the platform in the region (Bloomberg)
July 7, 2023
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Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sue NYC, seeking to block new minimum pay standards that increased the hourly wage for gig workers to ~$18 and $20 by 2025 (New York Times)
July 7, 2023
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Alibaba unveils Tongyi Wanxiang, an AI-based image generator initially available to enterprise customers in beta, to rival Midjourney and OpenAI’s DALL-E (Josh Ye/Reuters)
July 7, 2023
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Sources: Apple is planning an appointment-only retail launch of the Vision Pro in the US in early 2024, starting with stores in major areas like NY and LA (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
July 7, 2023
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