Xiaomi plans to focus on retail stores to boost India sales after years of e-commerce bets, in a bid to revive smartphone sales after falling behind Samsung (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
Xiaomi plans to focus on retail stores to boost India sales after years of e-commerce bets, in a bid to revive smartphone sales after falling behind Samsung  —  - Xiaomi, one of India's top phone brands, has lost market share  — Company plans to boost retail-store sales -Xiaomi exec

Sources: Mike Rockwell's division is now called Vision Products Group, hinting at an organizational change at Apple; Apple may hold an October event for M3 Macs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Mike Rockwell's division is now called Vision Products Group, hinting at an organizational change at Apple; Apple may hold an October event for M3 Macs  —  Apple's new Vision Products Group reflects a shift away from its famed product-development process.

Sony and Microsoft sign a deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, ending a bitter battle between the companies (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sony and Microsoft sign a deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, ending a bitter battle between the companies  —  Sony has agreed to a deal for Call of Duty with Microsoft.  Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says Sony and Microsoft have agreed to a …

Sources: McKinsey, BCG, and other US firms are splitting their IT systems to decouple China data, as Beijing expands anti-espionage rules and data regulation (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: McKinsey, BCG, and other US firms are splitting their IT systems to decouple China data, as Beijing expands anti-espionage rules and data regulation  —  Beijing's move to expand anti-espionage rules and data regulation has companies racing to hive off systems

Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the "rights" to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler (Alex Ivanovs/Stack Diary)

Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary:
Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the “rights” to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler  —  And even though there are some concerns about the type of data that was used [...]  —  I'm fairly certain …

Despite a generative AI funding mania, data shows that other startup funding remains bleak, with valuations down and few IPOs, deals, and late-stage rounds (Newcomer)

Newcomer:
Despite a generative AI funding mania, data shows that other startup funding remains bleak, with valuations down and few IPOs, deals, and late-stage rounds  —  The slowdown in public offerings and late-stage financings puts startups in peril  —  The generative artificial intelligence mania …