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| Mark Matousek / The Information: |
Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were “automated or from bots” — Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
At the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, Phil Spencer says Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5B to stop Starfield and other Bethesda games becoming PlayStation exclusives — Microsoft's Xbox chief has revealed one of the key reasons behind the acquisition of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax: potential Starfield PlayStation exclusivity.
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| The Economic Times: |
Sundar Pichai says Google plans to invest $10B in India's digitization fund and announces the opening of Google's fintech operation center in GIFT City, Gujarat — Notably, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City is a central business district under construction in Gandhinagar district in Gujarat, India.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Meta is planning to release its Twitter competitor in mid-July and is pitching big-name celebrities to join a platform that will be “sanely” run — Mark Zuckerberg is the overwhelming favorite to beat Elon Musk in a cage match. Will it actually happen?
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US federal court sentences UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor to five years in prison for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts — Prosecutors called for the British hacker to serve at least seven years — Three years after one of the most visible hacks …
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| New York Times: |
A profile of Michael Kives, a Hollywood agent turned investor, as FTX's bankruptcy lawyers sue his VC firm K5 Global to recover ~$700M that SBF had invested — Michael Kives, a former Hollywood agent, connected FTX's founder to Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bill Clinton and others.
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| Financial Times: |
A profile of Alibaba co-founder Eddie Wu, set to become CEO in the fall, who has a close relationship with mentor Jack Ma and will manage the company's breakup — Tech group co-founder to take reins and preside over its break-up — When Alibaba co-founder Eddie Yongming Wu struck …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: Jacob Devlin, who quit Google to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data, has returned to Google — Jacob Devlin, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who left Google for rival OpenAI in January after complaining internally … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Andreessen Horowitz created a16z Perennial Venture Capital Fund and a16z Perennial Management investment advisor, presumably expanding into wealth management — Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb … | Bloomberg: |
A mistakenly released FDIC doc lists SVB customers before its collapse: Sequoia with $1B, Beijing-based Kanzhun with $902.9M, Altos Labs with $680.3M, and more — When federal regulators stepped in to backstop all of Silicon Valley Bank's deposits, they saved thousands of small tech startups …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Midjourney adds a “zoom out” feature that builds out a larger scene around images generated within Midjourney, simulating zooming out with a camera lens — Midjourney v5.2 features camera-like zoom control over framing, more realism. — On Thursday, Midjourney unveiled version 5.2 …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal email: Google invited employees to test a product called Playables, which lets users play games like Stack Bounce instantly via the YouTube site or app — The new service, called ‘Playables,’ is part of CEO's push into new areas amid advertising slowdown| Wired: |
How military-grade AI, developed by US defense contractors for intelligence, has been repurposed to combat labor organizing, find internal leakers, and more — Spycraft developed by defense contractors are now being sold to employers to identify labor organizing. Regulators must step up to protect workers' privacy.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google adds a Perspectives tab to search results, with information that people have posted on YouTube, Reddit, and more, after announcing the feature in May — Google's new search feature that shows you different perspectives (ideally, human ones) in search results will be available on Friday, the company said on Twitter.
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says he and Mark Zuckerberg are “aligned” on the EU's regulation of AI; Sam Altman says he also agrees with the EU's approach — Technology company executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman expressed support for government oversight of artificial intelligence … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube is testing Aloud, an AI-powered dubbing tool developed at Google's Area 120, with “hundreds” of creators, starting with English, Spanish, and Portuguese — YouTube wants to make it easier to dub your videos in other languages by giving you some help with AI.
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| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Google plans to update Android's Emergency SOS after UK police blame the feature, activated by repeatedly pressing a side button, for a surge in false 999 calls — Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent “silent” 999 calls.
More: 9to5Google, SamMobile, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, Wccftech, Android Headlines, Android Authority, and Sammy Fans. Mastodon: @MishaalRahman@androiddev …
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
NetBlocks: at least five Russian telcos block Google News and several other ISPs are reducing access, as Russia's feud with a mercenary leader intensifies — At least five telecommunications companies have blocked the service, which aggregates news from various sources, according to an analysis from NetBlocks, an internet observatory.
More: Forbes and Reclaim The Net
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