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Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
The FCC says all but the smallest ISPs must now publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all their plans, ending an eight-year battle between ISPs and the agency  —  Starting on Wednesday, all but the smallest ISPs will be required to publish broadband “nutrition labels” on all of their plans, the regulator announced.
Josh Ye / Reuters:
NetEase and Microsoft say they plan to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the 14-year partnership in January 2023  —  Chinese video games giant NetEase (9999.HK) said it is working with Microsoft (MSFT.O) to bring popular games including …
Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog:
Google adds Gemma variants CodeGemma, for code completion and generation tasks, and RecurrentGemma, to offer researchers faster inference at higher batch sizes  —  In February we announced Gemma, our family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple assembled $14B worth of iPhones in India in the past fiscal year, doubling production YoY; Apple now makes as much as 14% of its iPhones in India  —  - It now assembles about 1 in 7 of its iPhones from India  — That ramp-up suggests an accelerating shift from China
Wall Street Journal:
How Ukraine found US startups' drones glitchy and pricey, turning instead to cheaper Chinese drones; PitchBook: ~300 US drone startups raised $2.5B since 2022  —  Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in its API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling  —  As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is the nexus of modern software development that sits atop tech platforms …
Vinod Khosla / Financial Times:
The US is right to target TikTok and prevent a foreign adversary from controlling a platform to deploy “persuasive AI” that can manipulate US citizens and more  —  Chinese control of a powerful ‘persuasive AI’ tool cannot be tolerated  —  The writer is the founder of Khosla Ventures
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly users of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10%  —  The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche.  Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier this year …
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Developer email: Amazon will no longer pay developers to create Alexa apps, and stops offering free AWS credits; developers can still monetize apps via IAPs  —  - End of program scraps key element of effort to build app store  — Google killed third-party apps for its Assistant in 2022
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Ad buyers on Meta's platforms complain of performance issues on its systems in recent months, and say campaign costs are up significantly while returns are down  —  Marketers on Facebook and Instagram notice glitches, higher prices and poorer returns on the once-reliable network
More: HBR.org
Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land:
WPP announces a collaboration with Google, integrating Gemini AI tools with WPP data to create scripts, product images, and more for ad clients like Coca-Cola  —  The groundbreaking partnership implies Google's robots could begin creating ads for world-leading brands like Coca-Cola.  —  Chat with SearchBot

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
The EU says it will give $6.2M in emergency funding to RFE/RL, after Trump withheld its funding; Sweden pledged $2M, but those funds have yet to arrive

Committee to Protect Journalists:
Five major US-based press freedom orgs launch the Journalist Assistance Network to provide legal and safety resources to journalists and newsrooms in the US

Washington Post:
Kimi Yoshino, who has led The Baltimore Banner for 3.5 years as its first editor-in-chief, is joining The Washington Post as managing editor, starting July 7

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Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe now allows bot creators to set a per-message price for their bots and rolls out enhanced analytics dashboard for creators
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Intel says its next-gen Lunar Lake laptop chips will have 100+ TOPS of performance in AI tasks and elements of Microsoft's Copilot will soon run locally on PCs
Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider:
Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Researchers found an exposed Azure server with Microsoft staff credentials used to access internal systems; Microsoft was told February 6 and fixed on March 5
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Cruise resumes manually driving its vehicles without autonomous systems engaged to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix
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