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Apple overhauls EU App Store fees to settle its DMA dispute

Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle a long dispute with the European Commission. The company announced the changes on Tuesday, after what it called close collaboration with the Commission. Developers can sign the new terms today, and they take effect on 1 October. The headline change is the end of the […]

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Reddit AI videos turn old text threads into narrated clips

Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in a sample of communities. A toggle appears above an eligible post. “Read” shows […]

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AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws

Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interviews with eight current and former officials who work or have worked with the […]

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Apple leaked a video of its camera-equipped AirPods in macOS Tahoe

Apple appears to have leaked its own camera-equipped AirPods. A demo video sat inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and MacRumors found it there on Monday. Juli Clover reported that the earbuds look nearly ready to launch. The clip runs 13 seconds. A man holds up a book so the camera in the AirPods […]

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens and will auto-enrol under-18s

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the company’s age-prediction system estimates is under 18. The global rollout began on 18 August, and Engadget reported that […]

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YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not

From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more. Nobody will earn more. What the rule was, and nobody could tell you Until now a YouTube view count on long-form […]

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Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew

Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequence is stranger than the number. The phone call that gave it away David Mann runs […]

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An AirTag in a rare book led to an Amazon book scanning warehouse in Las Vegas

A bookseller hid an AirTag inside a rare book and let it go with a bulk order. The tracker travelled across the United States and stopped at a warehouse in Las Vegas owned by Amazon. Emanuel Maiberg reported the result for 404 Media on Monday. Booksellers have spent a year suspecting that AI companies were […]

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CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack

America’s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world’s AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, confirming that the flaw is being used in real-world attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency made the move on 17 August, giving federal […]

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The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention

Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals of that general type are regulated. The exchange took six days. What was asked, and what came back Latham & Watkins […]

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