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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which beats its flagship model Claude 3 Opus and outperforms GPT-4o in some tests, available for free on the web and iOS — OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But it's more an incremental step than a monumental leap forward.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Claude 3.5 Sonnet appears to be a tremendous leap for Anthropic and LLMs generally, and shows that AI model makers' performance gains are not slowing down — A new large language model (LLM) has apparently taken the performance crown from OpenAI's GPT-4o about a month after its release …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Anthropic debuts Artifacts, which lets users see, edit, and build upon content generated by Claude such as code snippets, text documents, and website designs — The AI arms race continues apace: Anthropic is launching its newest model, called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it says can equal …
More: San Francisco Business Times and Tom's Guide
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
The restrictions on Kaspersky will stop new sales of its antivirus software in the US from July 20 and bar software updates to US customers after September 29 — The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia's Kaspersky Lab in the United States …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The Commerce Department bans Kaspersky antivirus sales in the US, says Kaspersky threatens national security and users' privacy because it is based in Russia — The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus in the country … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
NY Governor signs two bills to protect minors, banning “addictive feeds”, limiting data collection, limiting social media notifications overnight, and more — New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signed two bills into law on Thursday that aim to protect kids and teens from social media harms …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Source: The CFTC is investigating the Chicago-based trading firm Jump's involvement in crypto, including inquiries into its trading and investing activity — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating the Chicago-based trading firm Jump's involvement in crypto … | Benjamin Sandofsky / Sandofsky: |
A history of Lambda School: burning through $120M, why its income share agreements failed, how one developer-turned-journalist revealed the fraud, and more — Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: … Austen co-founded Lambda School, one of the largest educational startups of all time.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut plans to sell ~$500M worth of existing shares, including those held by employees, at a $40B+ valuation, up from $33B during a 2021 fundraising — SoftBank-backed fintech is confident its value has increased over 20% since 2021 fundraising — UK fintech Revolut is targeting …
More: Bloomberg
| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
EU diplomats: an EU Council vote to amend a draft law that would have forced WhatsApp and Signal to scan images and links for CSAM was removed from the agenda — Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.
More: Stack Diary, Patrick Breyer, Engadget, Euractiv, TechCrunch, Al Jazeera, Silicon Republic, Euronews, iMore, PaymentSecurity.io, Android Headlines, Developer Tech News, Phandroid, Dataconomy, The Irish Times, and Cybernews.com
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Belgium2, r/Slovenia, r/technology, r/portugal, r/worldnews, r/italy, r/europe, and r/privacy
| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Tests show Instagram continues to recommend sexual videos to accounts with ages listed as 13; Snapchat and TikTok did not produce the same sexualized content — Findings align with undisclosed internal research at Meta, which has pledged an ‘age-appropriate’ experience for teens …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Poolside, co-founded by ex-GitHub CTO Jason Warner to build AI tools to speed up software development, is raising $400M+ at a $2B+ post-money valuation — Paris has quickly established itself as a major European center for AI startups, and now another deal in the works could cement that position even further.| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
PayPal hires one of Walmart's top tech executives, Srini Venkatesan, as its CTO, effective June 24, replacing Archie Deskus, who will leave the company in July — PayPal (PYPL.O) has hired one of Walmart's top tech executives Srini Venkatesan to head up the company's push into artificial intelligence …
More: PYMNTS.com and PayPal Newsroom
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
London-based PQShield, which is developing tools for implementing post-quantum cryptography, raised a $37M Series B, taking its total funding to $57M+ — Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $37 million funding round led by Addition.
More: PQShield, Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch, FinTech Global, Tech.eu, FinSMEs, The Stack, Sifted, TNW, Silicon Canals, SecurityWeek, and UKTN
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has held talks with Baidu, Alibaba, Baichuan AI, and others to help offer Apple Intelligence in China, as ChatGPT isn't available in the country — ChatGPT isn't available in China, prompting Apple to seek local partner for its artificial-intelligence services
More: CNBC, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Quartz, Business Insider, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, and MacDailyNews
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
How some Meta users in the US are turning to small claims court, often successfully, to recover their Facebook or Instagram accounts; some won financial damages — People are using the courts in a last-ditch attempt to recover their accounts. — Last month, Ray Palena boarded a plane … Sponsor Posts
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