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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores  —  Apple's next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade.  Behind the scenes, though …
Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone:
A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today  —  Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along  —  T  —  IMNIT GEBRU DIDN'T set out to work in AI.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
A look at publishers' legal fight against the Internet Archive's book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers' “full book catalogs”  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued.
Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust:
Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn't build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic  —  With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 …
Financial Times:
Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month  —  Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles  —  The era of cheap streaming is ending …
Reuters:
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1's 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75%  —  SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) …

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New York Times:
Court docs detail a smear campaign against actor Blake Lively via media articles and social media posts after she accused director Justin Baldoni of misconduct

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

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Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “Maximum Capacity” rating of their phone's battery has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year
Liz Lindqwister / The San Francisco Standard:
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol

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Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
A look at Stanford's bootcamp to educate Congress on deepfakes, how AI can potentially reshape education and health care, and the use of AI in national security
Iain Thomson / The Register:
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and debuts VeilidChat, a proof-of-concept Signal-like messaging app
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying its Great 78 Project works as an “illegal record store” for songs
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT
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