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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d711ddffcb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple appeals the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA, saying the requirements create “a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation”</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fac0fc1945&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, expanding its current AI tools</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=254afaaf02&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">When Mark Zuckerberg talks about fully automating Meta's ad platform through AI enablement in the “not-too-distant future,” that gets interpreted through a zero-sum lens. People view these developments as Meta (and Google) absorbing things like ad creative production, campaign optimization, and various analytical tasks from other sources, such that resources get diverted from other areas (agencies, employees, other ad platforms). While that's certainly true to some extent, especially in the short term, the broader dynamic is that these AI capabilities empower advertisers to spend even more money than they otherwise could have without those tools</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8071c88e7e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an “online food delivery cartel”, ending its July 2024 probe</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Barbara Moens / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0749932f67&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber names longtime exec Andrew Macdonald as president and first COO since 2019; SVP of delivery Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty is leaving Uber after nearly 13 years</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natalie Lung / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=117dd565b3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Paradromics says it successfully tested its Connexus brain implant, which encodes memory, in a patient during epilepsy surgery, a first for the Neuralink rival</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emily Mullin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a8ecd2c857&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others; it was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c86466ec77&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta prioritizes an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck for 2026, and may not ship a new Quest with a traditional form factor until 2027</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amanda Silberling / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=827c0d1385&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US asset management firms like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating “oversupply” and bubble concerns</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maureen Farrell / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=de593f07c6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to use AI to reinvent businesses via PE roll-ups</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Connie Loizos / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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