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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more — Elon Musk announced a new AI company today, xAI. all the team members listed on the website appear to be men.
More: xAI, Ars Technica, The Verge, BBC, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Washington Post, Associated Press, CoinDesk, PCMag, San Francisco Business Journal, Agence France-Presse, CNBC, The Hill, Data Center Knowledge, Gizmodo, ZDNet, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Decrypt, TIME, Wired, MobileSyrup, Financial Times, Unite.AI, Insider, Wccftech, PC Gamer, Search Engine Journal, Observer, The Decoder, Neowin, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, Mashable, SlashGear, Tech Startups, CNN, Lifewire, and Livemint
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @epro.social
Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social and @codepo8@toot.cafe
Twitter: @elonmusk, @xai, @thegregyang, @bobgourley, @edludlow, @pmddomingos, @iamtimnguyen, @rachelmetz, @kylascan, and @grady_booch. Threads: @joannastern
Forums: r/singularity and Ars OpenForum
| Colin Lecher / The Markup: |
A congressional investigation led by Senator Elizabeth Warren finds popular tax filing tools “recklessly” sent data, like income, to Meta and Google for years — The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup
More: Ars Technica, CNN, US States Senator for Massachusetts, The Verge, Washington Post, Vox, The Register, Engadget, Politico, Associated Press, Newser, Reuters, Gizmodo, The Hill, WRAL TechWire, and CNBC
Bluesky: @hypervisible.bsky.social and @faineg.bsky.social
Twitter: @b_fung, @b_fung, @senwarren, @justinhendrix, @emilygorcenski, @shaneferro, @sisiwei, @b_fung, @mattegancnn, and @pt
Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, and r/privacy
| New York Times: |
Microsoft says Chinese hackers gained access to US government email accounts and had access to at least some accounts for a month before the breach was detected — The hack, by a Chinese group that the company said was intent on conducting espionage, went undetected for a month. — Reporting from Washington
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Twitter: @arekfurt, @ericgeller, @arekfurt, @lrozen, @0xdabbad00, @wavesblog, and @adam_k_levin
Forums: r/technews, r/cybersecurity, and r/China
| Reuters: |
The UK CMA will not accept new Microsoft and Activision Blizzard remedies but says a restructured deal may satisfy its concerns, subject to a new investigation — Britain's competition regulator said on Wednesday that a new restructured Microsoft-Activision deal could require a fresh merger investigation.
More: The Verge, PCMag, Activision Blizzard King, Kotaku, BigTechWire, Reuters, Thurrott, Push Square, iPhone in Canada Blog, KitGuru, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Video Games Chronicle, IGN, Daring Fireball, Coinspeaker, and The Verge
Twitter: @tomwarren, @ps_vortex, @fosspatents, @idlesloth84_, and @charlieintel
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Experts: the FTC faces hurdles in any Activision ruling appeal as the facts work in Microsoft's favor; some question the judge's standard on harming competition — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission would face hurdles in any appeal of a court's order on Tuesday that said Microsoft (MSFT.O) …
More: The Verge, Windows Central, Engadget, CNBC, New York Times, IGN, TweakTown, Bloomberg Law, Eurogamer.net, Dot Esports, Gameranx, TheGamer, Wall Street Journal, Kotaku, and Bloomberg. Forums: r/hearthstone
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
More: American Prospect, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Stratechery, House Committee …, The Information, and CNBC
Bluesky: @epopppp.bsky.social. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. Twitter: @modestproposal1, @andashleysays, @danielewalters_, @blakeprof, @heerjeet, @jason_kint, @jameeljaffer, @eric_seufert, @nathanjrobinson, @pmatzko, @sarthakgh, @castrotech, @bearforce_won, @chasemadar, @matthewstoller, @ddayen, @matthewstoller, @divestech, @david_darmofal, @zackkanter, @danprimack, @elibietti, @mualphaxi, @lawprofblawg, @andashleysays, @adamkovac, @helaineolen, and @adamkovac. Threads: @reckless1280
| Toby Bochan / CoinDesk: |
In a major policy shift, Google Play now lets developers incorporate tokenized digital assets, such as NFTs, into their Android apps and games — The company is opening up the ability for developers to let users buy, sell or earn digital assets in apps as long as they maintain transparency and adhere to other rules.| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Xbox tests reactive voice chat moderation, letting Xbox Insiders report 60-second audio clips of inappropriate voice messages for the Xbox safety team to review — Rolling out today to Xbox Insiders, the new reporting feature will allow players to capture and submit 60-second audio clips …
More: Xbox Wire, VentureBeat, Windows Central, Engadget, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Eurogamer.net, Lifewire, Pure Xbox, Game Rant, GamesIndustry.biz, Neowin, GameSpot, OnMSFT.com, IGN, Game Developer, and Thurrott
Twitter: @justinkruger, @vicious696, @tomwarren, and @xbox
Forums: r/Games and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta says Roblox is coming to Meta's Quest 2, Quest Pro, and Quest 3, starting with an open beta on App Lab “in the coming weeks”, with cross-platform support — / It's launching in open beta in the ‘coming weeks.’ — Roblox will be coming to Meta's Quest VR headsets starting …
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Twitter: @sadlyitsbradley, @realitylabs, @bloxy_news, @ericpresidentvr, @roblox, and @tomffiske
Forums: r/oculus and r/OculusQuest
| Richard MacManus / The New Stack: |
A look at Meta's plan to adopt ActivityPub for Threads, how ActivityPub suits Meta's goals, and the technical challenges and social pressure facing the company — From a developer point of view, the fact that Meta's Threads app has quickly gone over 100 million sign-ups isn't the most interesting part of this latest Twitter clone.
More: lists.w3.org, Popular Science, Insider, snarfed.org, Watcher Guru, and Bloomberg
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Forums: Hacker News and kbin.social
| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI — The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk. — R
More: CIO Dive. Bluesky: @sesmith.bsky.social and @anabrandusescu.bsky.social. Mastodon: @waxy@xoxo.zone
| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Travelers can say no to a TSA facial recognition scan, but some TSA agents tell travelers the scan is required or that refusing will cause a significant delay — Let's ask two questions about airports' use of facial recognition: Is it truly voluntary? And is it worth it?| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
A former Twitter employee files a proposed class action accusing the company of refusing to pay $500M+ in promised severance to the thousands whom Elon Musk cut — Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance … | Chainalysis: |
Crypto crime in H1 2023 vs. H1 2022: inflows to known illicit entities fell 65% YoY, scammers took nearly $3.3B less, and ransomware attackers made $175.8M more — 2023 so far has been a year of recovery for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as of June 30.
More: BleepingComputer, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Record, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Infosecurity, Bitcoinist.com, The Hacker News, Wired UK, CryptoSlate, and CryptoPotato
Twitter: @chainalysis and @chainalysis
| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
The European Securities and Markets Authority issues detailed proposals on crypto companies under the EU's MiCA law; more are due in October 2023 and early 2024 — Consultations cover authorization and conflict-of-interest rules for crypto companies under the landmark digital assets regulation| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Sources reveal how contractors audit Bard's answers in subjects ranging from medication doses to state laws, sometimes with deadlines as short as three minutes — Google's Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence.
More: Android Central and Insider
Bluesky: @emily.gorcen.ski. Mastodon: @daveyalba@mastodon.social. Twitter: @daveyalba, @sashamtl, @jessefelder, @sarahfrier, and @lauraedelson2
| Reuters: |
Recursion, which uses AI models for drug discovery, plans to use its 23K+ TB datasets to train its models on Nvidia's cloud platform and raised $50M from Nvidia — Nvidia (NVDA.O) invested $50 million to speed up training of biotech firm Recursion's (RXRX.O) artificial intelligence models … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Twitter's best defense against Threads may be to refocus on news and reactions from people users follow, leaving user growth via an algorithmic feed to Threads — If you're only going to tweet once every 11 years, then you better make it count; the best way to do just that is to pull off a well-executed meme:
More: The Daily Beast, CrackBerry, ZDNet, TechPP, and New York Times
Bluesky: @bencollins.bsky.social. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @lindayacc, @sarthakgh, and @conorsen
Threads: @mosseri, @nikitabier, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @briantylercohen@threads. net, @nikitabier, @shorty_jooce, and @nikitabier
Forums: Hacker News and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Buenos Aires-based InvGate, which offers IT service and asset management tools, raised $35M led by Riverwood, its first external funding since its 2009 founding — InvGate, a SaaS platform offering information technology service management and IT asset management products …
More: Silicon Canals and FinSMEs
| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Research: Huawei is plotting a return to the 5G smartphone market by the end of 2023 using its own 14nm+ chip design tools and SMIC's 7nm chipmaking process — - US-sanctioned giant likely to produce 5G chips domestically — Chips expected to use Huawei EDA tools and SMIC production
More: Android Police, Tom's Hardware, Coinmonks, Wccftech, SamMobile, Gizchina, Phandroid, Neowin, and PhoneArena
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Emails: Urs Holzle, Google employee no. 8, plans to step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor”, amid a Google Cloud shakeup — - Employee No. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, CNBC has learned.
More: CRN, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, DatacenterDynamics, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg
| Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: |
A California law firm hits Google with a proposed class-action lawsuit, alleging data scraping for AI training without user consent, after a similar OpenAI case — Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Adobe: US consumers spent $6.4B at Amazon during Prime Day's first 24 hours, up 6% YoY but below estimates; Numerator: average orders were up 7% YoY to $56.64 — US consumers spent $6.4 billion online in the first 24 hours of Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Day, according to Adobe Inc. That's up 6% …
More: PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, NBC News, CNBC, TechSpot, and Reuters
| Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal: |
Domino's Pizza partners with Uber Eats in the US, the UK, Canada, and 25 other markets, reversing its long-held stance against working with food delivery apps — Pizza chain hopes to generate $1 billion in sales after losing business to apps — Domino's Pizza, hungry to claw back pizza sales …
More: Domino's Pizza, Inc., Associated Press, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Financial Times, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TechCrunch
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