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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances — The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why? It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft — The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source and documents: the US FTC sent civil subpoenas to Microsoft and Inflection AI seeking information about how and why they negotiated their partnership — Commission has sent subpoenas to tech giant and startup, asking whether their partnership evaded required government review| New York Times: |
Sources: as the Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10K orders by early April, Humane started talking to HP about selling itself for $1B+; Humane has raised $240M — Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via “automated and manual methods” to improve its services and software — Adobe has been one of the leading legacy enterprise software companies to embrace generative AI and make it accessible …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google partners with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to let users contact 911 via RCS, from December and initially only in Google Messages — Google said today it is partnering with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to enable users to contact 911 through RCS (Rich Messaging Service).
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data — ‘Building a product is a bit like making art,’ said founder Jingna Zhang — Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies …
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| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
A US federal court finds Mike Lynch not guilty of criminal charges that he duped HP into buying Autonomy for $11B in 2011; he lost a UK civil trial in 2022 — - Stunning victory at criminal trial follows loss in civil case — He's complained for years that he was scapegoated over merger| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how Apple fell behind in the AI race: its AI team failing to collaborate with product teams, a lack of access to computing resources, and more — For those who saw them, the demonstrations inside Apple increase earlier this decade of a revamped Siri offered a showcase …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to reach out after getting 7,000+ decryption keys to recover data for free; police seized 2,500+ keys in February 2024 — The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained … | Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand — Move comes a month after SEC notice of a potential lawsuit over the brokerage's crypto offerings
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance has been renting Nvidia's GPUs from Oracle to bypass US sanctions; China Telecom and other Chinese companies also tried to use the loophole — The U.S. government forbids Nvidia from selling some of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips to customers in China.| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI releases a research paper by its recently disbanded “superalignment” team on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models — Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method … | Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
Core Scientific rejects CoreWeave's $5.75-per-share buyout offer from June 4, worth $1B+, saying the deal significantly undervalues the company — The board of Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's offer to buy the miner for $5.75 per share. — Core Scientific (CORZ) … | Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans WhatsApp features, including an AI-powered assistant for businesses in India and Singapore, and AI tools to create ads in English-speaking markets — - Assistant lets businesses chat with customers using AI — New features will roll out first in India and Singapore| Forbes: |
A look at Eric Schmidt's White Stork, which sources say has poached employees from Apple, SpaceX, Google, and others to build AI-enabled military drones — With a widening roster of high profile talent poached from Apple, SpaceX and Google, the former Google CEO is piloting his drones in Menlo Park and Ukraine.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out its Gemini-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM to 200+ new countries, including Brazil and India, and adds Slides and web URLs as sources — Google on Thursday said it is rolling out NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking assistant, to over 200 new countries …
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Financial Express, Phandroid, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, Business Today, and ZDNet. LinkedIn: Debbie W.
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Discord adds new monetization features for developers and plans to halve the 30% platform fee to 15% for their first $1M in cumulative gross sales — Discord is introducing new tools and monetization features that aim to make it easier for app developers to make money by selling premium perks via storefronts on the platform.| Bloomberg: |
eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of “unacceptably high” transaction fees, from August 17 — - Online marketplace calls Amex fees ‘unacceptably high’ — Change to take effect Aug. 17; Amex defends its fees
More: eBay Newsroom, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Payments Dive, Associated Press, and Daring Fireball
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics — ASML makes some of the most advanced chip-making machines. It must balance Western demands to curb China's access while keeping a foothold in a key market.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kraken seeks to raise $100M+ in a pre-IPO round; the crypto exchange's previous attempts to go public were thwarted in part by a dispute with the SEC — - Crypto exchange has talked about doing IPO for several years — Closely held exchange is engaged in a dispute with the SEC
More: The Block, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, Milk Road, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, and Axios
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| Joshua Robertson / TheGamer: |
Ikea plans to hire 10 people to run its virtual Roblox store, including to help pick out furniture and serve meatballs in the Bistro, and pay them £13.15/hour — - Ikea is hiring 10 people to run a virtual store in Roblox, as part of a campaign to show young people the career paths available at the store.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account from December 1, after announcing the change in December 2023 — Google Maps is changing the way it handles your location data. Instead of backing up your data to the cloud, Google will soon store it locally on your device.
More: The Guardian, ZDNet, Gizchina, SamMobile, Financial Express, Livemint, LifeHacker, and 9to5Google
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