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A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, which aim to be "a design toolkit for automakers", including feature "layers", "remote UI", and "punch-through UI" (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180353/apple-carplay-wireless-system-features
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/threads-finally-launches-its-api-for-developers/
Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships (Wall Street Journal)
A look at Shein's efforts to diversify away from fast fashion, as the company struggles to get third-party merchants to sign up for its marketplace (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
Down-ballot campaigns in the US are experimenting with AI, which can help them save money and time, while also raising fears about the threats of AI deepfakes (Associated Press)
A look at India's quick commerce market, which has become an important distribution channel for Indian food brands, as Zepto and others expand beyond groceries (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/can-quick-commerce-leapfrog-e-commerce-in-india/
Google launches Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages; Gemini will be available via Google app on iOS in the coming weeks (Amar Subramanya/Google)
Cambridge-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and has added Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent "upload moderation" proposal to detect CSAM "fundamentally undermines encryption" of messaging apps (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24178580/tubi-ceo-free-tv-streaming-ads-decoder-podcast-interview
Constructor, which provides an AI-powered product discovery and search service for e-commerce companies, raised a $25M Series B at a $550M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
Adobe unveils Firefly-powered image generation in Acrobat, and support for analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, in Acrobat AI Assistant (Calvin Wankhede/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/adobe-ai-assistant-acrobat-3451988/
Inside Snapchat's teen opioid crisis: law-enforcement sources and parents allege that the company has helped fuel an overdose epidemic across the US (Paul Solotaroff/Rolling Stone)
Real-time data analytics startup Tinybird raised a $30M Series B, at a "significantly higher" valuation than its $37M Series A; source: it's now valued at $240M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Coinbase debuts "pre-launch markets" on its global and advanced exchanges outside the US, UK, and Canada, for positions on tokens before they hit spot exchanges (Lawrence Lewitinn/The Block)
Microsoft says the latest version of Windows 11, version 24H2 now in the Release Preview Channel, is "only available for Copilot+ PCs devices" (Mark Hachman/PCWorld)
Tether, the top stablecoin provider, says it made a new synthetic dollar that is backed by gold and will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on Ethereum Mainnet (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
Mandiant: up to 10 companies breached in a campaign targeting Snowflake customers have been extorted with stolen data and face ransom demands from $300K to $5M (Bloomberg)