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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

CHATGPT'S MOBILE APP JUST HAD ITS BIGGEST MONTH YET (2 MINUTE READ)
[5]

The launch of GPT-4o sent ChatGPT's revenue soaring - it pulled in
$28 million in net revenue from the App Store and Google Play in July.
The app grossed $39.9 million before paying in-app purchase fees.
ChatGPT saw an estimated 2 million new paying customers last month.
Growth is expected to continue in the months to come.

REDDIT CONSIDERS SEARCH ADS, PAYWALLED CONTENT FOR THE FUTURE (3
MINUTE READ) [6]

Reddit's plans for making more money from the platform include
showing ads in more places and possibly putting some content behind a
paywall. The company, which has never been profitable, lost $10.1
million during Q2 2024, down from Q2 2023's $41.1 million loss. It
recently blocked all search engines besides Google, OpenAI, and
approved education/research instances from showing its content in
search results. Reddit seems to be trying to capitalize on how people
use its name as a filter for search results.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

NASA SAYS BOEING STARLINER ASTRONAUTS MAY FLY HOME ON SPACEX IN 2025
(6 MINUTE READ) [7]

NASA has downplayed the problems experienced by Boeing's Starliner
since it took two astronauts to the International Space Station in
June. Officials finally admitted on Wednesday that the issues may be
more serious than first thought and that the astronauts might not
return on Starliner. The agency is exploring a backup option for the astronauts. The astronauts were meant to stay for around eight days,
but that could be extended into next year.

WE'RE BUILDING AN ULTRASOUND HEADSET TO ENHANCE HUMAN EXPERIENCE (1
MINUTE READ) [8]

Nudge is building an ultrasound headset to enhance the human
experience. It will allow users to push a button to shift their brain
state. Research progress with ultrasound neuromodulation has
accelerated in the last few years and has begun to produce promising
results. The device will be able to benefit everyone, not just those
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MISCELLANEOUS

DON'T PIVOT INTO AI RESEARCH (3 MINUTE READ) [13]

Chip design used to be a high-profile role, with the most famous chip designers viewed similarly to how famous machine learning researchers
are seen today. Many students flocked to the industry as the number of
chip companies boomed and the field was in demand. However, as market
dynamics changed, the supply of hardware engineers grew too high. The
high capital costs for chip manufacturing drove the number of
employers down to a handful of major chip makers. The field of AI
research will likely play out the same way.

GOOGLE ANTITRUST VERDICT LEAVES APPLE WITH "INCONVENIENT
ALTERNATIVES" (7 MINUTE READ) [14]

Apple benefited greatly from Google's monopoly. While the Department
of Justice has not yet said what it will seek for a remedy to the
antitrust case, Apple will likely be deeply involved. Apple could be
forced to accept a much less lucrative agreement with Microsoft or may
be prevented from selling search defaults at all. Mozilla may also be
heavily impacted by the decision - Google's 2021 payment to the
company for the default position on its browser was about 80 percent
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QUICK LINKS

INTEL REPORTEDLY GAVE UP A CHANCE TO BUY A STAKE IN OPENAI IN 2017 (2
MINUTE READ) [15]

Intel and OpenAI discussed several investment options but the deal
was scuttled because Intel's CEO didn't see AI models hitting the
broad market anymore soon.

MAJOR SHIFTS AT OPENAI SPARK SKEPTICISM ABOUT IMPENDING AGI TIMELINES
(4 MINUTE READ) [16]

Several prominent figures have left OpenAI, leading some to question
whether the company is really that close to achieving artificial
general intelligence.

YOUTUBE BEGINS TESTING A NEW FEATURE SIMILAR TO TWITTER'S COMMUNITY
NOTES (2 MINUTE READ) [17]

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GOOGLE IS A VERY STRANGE MONOPOLIST (3 MINUTE READ) [18]

Google acts like a monopoly but without harming consumers, a fact
that could pose some problems on appeal.

INSIDE THE COMPANY THAT GATHERS `HUMAN DATA' FOR EVERY MAJOR AI
COMPANY (7 MINUTE READ) [19]

Staffing firm Turing's work played an important role in helping
OpenAI create ChatGPT.

X OFFICIALLY KILLS ITS SAN FRANCISCO HEADQUARTERS, WILL RELOCATE
WORKERS TO SOUTH BAY (5 MINUTE READ) [20]

X's engineering workers will share an office in Palo Alto with xAI
while the remaining employees will be routed to existing offices in
Santana Row.

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