August 9, 20230CommentsBob Iger says Disney is “actively exploring ways” to crack down on password sharing and “will roll out tactics to drive monetization sometime in 2024” (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)
August 9, 20230CommentsDisney 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 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
August 9, 20230CommentsSources: 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 (Financial Times)
August 9, 20230CommentsBiden signs an executive order banning US investments in some Chinese companies developing advanced semiconductors and quantum computers, starting in 2024 (Andrew Duehren/Wall Street Journal)
August 9, 20230CommentsCoinbase’s Base mainnet opens to the general public, with 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, following a launch for developers in July (Vishal Chawla/The Block)
August 9, 20230CommentsThe 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 (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)