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Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney plans to raise US prices of Disney+ Premium, Hulu without ads, and ESPN+, and to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada and nine European countries  —  Ad-supported Disney+ tier to expand to Canada, U.K. and eight other European countries this fall Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba made orders worth $5B to acquire Nvidia chips, amid concerns that the US will soon clamp down on their export  —  Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: Bob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024”  —  “We will roll out tactics to drive monetization,” the Disney CEO says  —  Disney+ will begin cracking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: Biden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024  —  Biden’s order will also require U.S. private-equity and venture-capital firms to disclose certain investments Lees verder op Tech Meme

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: In its Q1 earnings report, Sony, the world’s largest camera sensor supplier, pushes back expectations for a smartphone market recovery to 2024 at the earliest  —  – The camera sensor leader had anticipated second-half recovery  — Sony warns that conditions are tough in China and the US Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vishal Chawla / The Block: Coinbase’s Base mainnet opens to the public featuring 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, after a developer-specific release in July 2023  —  – The Base network, backed by Coinbase, has now officially been opened to the public.  — The Base network’s journey began … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: The US debuts a DARPA contest to build AI systems that can proactively identify and fix software flaws, with help from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI  —  The winning systems will be able to analyze and correct vulnerable code in critical infrastructure. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft to build a ChatGPT-powered Aptos Assistant and plans to host validator nodes on Azure; GitHub will add Aptos’ Move to Copilot  —  Since the A.I.-hype train reached full speed earlier this year, there’s been no shortage of crypto entrepreneurs trying to get a piece of the action. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth de Luna / Mashable: X begins making ad revenue payouts to smaller creators, after issuing payments to select accounts in July 2023; how X calculates the payouts remains unclear  —  ‘$8 to make $370 is a fantastic ROI for something I do anyway,’ one creator tweeted. … X is finally paying smaller creators … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: The US launches a DARPA-led contest to build AI systems that can spot and fix software vulnerabilities, with help from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI  —  The winning systems will be able to analyze and correct vulnerable code in critical infrastructure. Lees verder op Tech Meme