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Josh Noble / Financial Times : How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation   —  NBC and Eurosport among those using ‘creators’ to spur interest and reach wider audiences  —  Sandra Kwon's life …

Allison Johnson / The Verge : Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 review: all-day battery, seven years of updates, and widgets for the outer screen are helpful but hard to run full apps   —  It's not the most fun, but reliability goes a long way. … Look, fun is fun and all, but sometimes boring is better.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Saturday called former President Trump’s offer to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News in September a "masterstroke." "I think it's great," Trump’s vice presidential pick told SiriusXM’s "Breitbart News Saturday." " In some ways, it's a masterstroke because, of course, the Kamala campaign has been saying for a long time that President Trump is afraid to debate Kamala Harris , which, of course, is absurd because the last time he debated their nominee, that nominee withdrew two weeks later."  President Biden pulled out of the race and endorsed Harris as the nominee last month after his weak debate performance in late June drew concerns from Democrats. Late Friday night, Trump wrote on Truth Social, "I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no lon...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg : A look at Bungie's future after it laid off 220 staffers, as current and former employees say it grew too fast and tried to develop too many projects at once   —  The creator of Halo and Destiny laid off more than 200 people this week including several top executives  —  Hi everyone.

FIRST ON FOX: Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is rumored to be on the short list of vice-presidential candidates for presumptive nominee Kamala Harris , applied as state attorney general to be part of a Michael Bloomberg-sponsored program to appoint special climate prosecutors to go after the energy industry in his state. During the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported that climate activists began "placing employees in Attorneys General offices in dubious private-public condominiums" highlighted a "remarkable arrangement" by the NYU Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center. The effort was launched in 2017 as part of a $6 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to "advance a liberal climate and energy agenda." The program, which is legal, has placed Bloomberg-funded oil and gas attorneys in several jurisdictions, including in Connecticut , Illinois, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., where they focus...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech   —  In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.

The White House said Thursday that President Biden "played no role" in the plea deal process for three of the masterminds behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks. "The White House learned yesterday that the Convening Authority for Military Commissions entered into pretrial agreements, negotiated by military prosecutors, with KSM and other 9/11 defendants," a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "The President and the White House played no role in this process. The President has directed his team to consult as appropriate with officials and lawyers at the Department of Defense on this matter." The statement comes after the Department of Defense announced Wednesday that prosecutors had reached a plea agreement with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, for their role in masterminding the Sept. 11 terror attacks. 9/11 MASTERMIND, 2 OTHERS STR...