Vibes-based antitrust hits Microsoft - by Casey Newton

The company's Activision Blizzard merger might once have sailed through — but times have changed
The company's Activision Blizzard merger might once have sailed through — but times have changed

Techmeme: Experts warn that Meta, and possibly Google, blocking trusted news outlets in Canada will worsen misinformation as the world nears a “precipice” of AI content (Kevin Jiang/Toronto Star)

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Techmeme: Cerebral, an app-based mental health service provider that raised $300M at a $4.8B valuation last week, makes some staff health insurance contingent on quotas (Katie Jennings/Forbes)

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Q&A with WhatsApp's Will Cathcart - by Casey Newton

Techmeme: Filing: ByteDance spent $2.1M+ on US lobbying aimed at an antitrust bill and other issues in Q2 2022, up 130% QoQ and for the first time over $2M in one quarter (

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Techmeme: Microsoft updates Copilot with DALL-E 3 and says GPT-4 Turbo support and a Code Interpreter feature are coming soon; Bing will get a “Deep Search” feature (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Techmeme: Denver-based Velocity Global, which helps companies hire remote and international workers, raises a $400M Series B, and says it generated $125M in 2021 revenue (Kamaron Leach/Bloomberg)