Reuters: The EU Commission plans to carry out a regulatory assessment of Qualcomm’s acquisition of Israeli fabless chipmaker Autotalks, a deal announced in May 2023  —  Qualcomm announced the planned takeover in... Read more »

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix partners with Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecom operator, to bundle its streaming service with two pay-as-you-go carrier plans  —  Netflix has inked a “first-of-its-kind” deal with Jio... Read more »

Simon Sharwood / The Register: PE firm EQT plans to take the german software company private at €16 per share, below the €30 price of its 2021 IPO but above Thursday’s closing... Read more »

CNN: Lyft and Uber threaten to leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill on August 23 that mandates at least $1.40/mile and $0.51/minute for drivers  —  New York CNN... Read more »

Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: Mandiant: the use of AI to conduct politically-motivated online influence campaigns has grown in recent years, but the impact of such campaigns has been limited  —  Google-owned U.S.... Read more »

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ProjectDiscovery, a free vulnerability scanning platform to monitor for exploits in websites, apps, APIs, and cloud services, raised a $25M Series A led by CRV  —  ProjectDiscovery, a... Read more »

MK Manoylov / The Block: OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31, and enforce creator fees on certain existing collections through February 2024  —  – OpenSea... Read more »

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: Meta is preparing to release a free open-source code-generating AI model dubbed Code Llama as soon as next week  —  Meta Platforms is preparing to launch... Read more »

Hayden Field / CNBC: Filing: NYC-based AI startup Elemental Cognition raised nearly $60M; AI researcher David Ferrucci, who led the team behind IBM Watson, founded Elemental in 2015  —  – David Ferrucci,... Read more »