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

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Techmeme: Apple says “all presenters, locations, and drone footage” in the pre-recorded “Scary Fast” event video were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

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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: Q&A with Michael Siliski, a business lead at Stripe, on product culture, how written long-form documents facilitate the flow of information at Stripe, and more (Ken Norton/Bring the Donuts Newsletter)

Techmeme: NYC-based fintech Clair, which helps workers get paid after completing a shift, raised $25M led by Thrive Capital and $150M in debt from partner bank Pathward (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

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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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Vibes-based antitrust hits Microsoft - by Casey Newton