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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765 — Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive … | Wall Street Journal: |
Emails: X offers discounts on new video ads in the US and UK and warns advertisers that they will lose verified status unless they reach spending thresholds — Social-media site X is offering hefty discounts to lure back ad dollars — X Corp. is cutting ad prices as it tries to woo brands back to the Elon Musk-owned platform.
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| Alphabet - Investor Relations: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $74.6B, net income of $18.37B, up from $16B YoY, and Google Cloud revenue of $8.03B, up from $6.28B YoY; GOOG jumps 6%+ — Announces Plans for Chief Financial Officer Transition and Appointment of President and Chief Investment Officer MOUNTAIN VIEW …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alphabet reports Q2 Google ad revenue up 3% YoY to $58.14B after two consecutive quarters of falling ad sales — Financial chief Ruth Porat to become Alphabet's president and chief investment officer — Google reported a pickup in revenue growth during the most recent quarter … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google says 2B+ logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, up from 1.5B+ in June 2022, and YouTube is reaching 150M people on their TVs in the US — Google said today that more than 2 billion logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, giving it an edge over competitors like TikTok and Instagram Reels.
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| Microsoft - Investor Relations: |
Microsoft reports Q4 net income up 20% YoY to $20.1B, revenue up 8% YoY to $56.2B, Office Commercial up 12% YoY, Dynamics 365 up 26% YoY, and LinkedIn up 5% YoY — , as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year: · Revenue was $56.2 billion and increased 8% (up 10% in constant currency)
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Evan Blass leaks over a dozen images ahead of Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more — All we need to know at this stage is pricing and availability details. — • — TL;DR — A long-time leaker has posted …
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| Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: |
A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity — Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence - but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
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| The Guardian: |
UNESCO calls for a global ban on smartphones in schools, saying intensive technology use negatively impacts student performance and increases disruption — Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
OpenAI shuts down its AI classifier for indicating AI-written text, citing “its low rate of accuracy”, and will research “more effective provenance techniques” — In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world … | Will Knight / Wired: |
How a US Navy task force is using AI to police the waters of the Gulf of Oman for pirates, a glimpse of increasingly capable autonomous systems transforming war — Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon adds a tool to alert customers of recalled or unsafe products within their accounts; US sellers can opt in to Amazon's service to manage recalled items — Amazon today introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to be better informed about potential product safety alerts and recalls.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models” — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Berkeley CS professor Stuart Russell warn Congress that AI could cause serious harms in a few years — Two AI researchers and the CEO of AI startup Anthropic testified about the long-term risks of AI and said Congress needs to institute rules to control it
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| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the FTC is finalizing its antitrust suit against Amazon and is likely to file its case in federal court rather than its own tribunal as soon as August — A case would be a high-water mark for FTC Chair Lina Khan who gained prominence criticizing the company's dominance.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
The Browser Company launches Arc on macOS and iOS after a two-year waitlist; the browser helps users take notes, redesign webpages, organize tabs, and more — Arc, the Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, is finally ditching its waitlist. The company has been testing the app …
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta hasn't labeled propaganda accounts of state-backed media from Russia and other authoritarian governments on Threads, unlike on Facebook and Instagram — State-backed media accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers without the labels they are made to carry on Instagram and Facebook
Twitter: @newley
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others write a paper for EU policymakers encouraging support for open-source AI models ahead of the final EU AI Act — In a paper sent to EU policymakers, a group of companies, including GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others …
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| Anto Antony / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Indian edtech giant Byju's CEO Byju Raveendran, who has been in crisis mode for months but hopes to raise a $1B equity investment as soon as August — - Indian firm has struggled to overcome issues with liquidity — US investors accused Byju's of hiding half a billion dollars
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