An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube  —  Ms. Wojcicki, who helped start Google, was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley before stepping down from YouTube.

Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more  —  We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia's connection with the volunteers who create it.

The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)

Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1  —  X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.

A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants  —  The Chips Program Office is tasked with overseeing one of the most ambitious manufacturing comebacks in US history

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bans X in the country for ten days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to promote hatred after Venezuela's disputed election (Reuters)

Reuters:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bans X in the country for ten days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to promote hatred after Venezuela's disputed election  —  Maduro said he signed a resolution presented by regulator Conatel which “has decided to take social network X, formerly known as Twitter, out of circulation for 10 days.”

Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation  —  Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques