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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
In preliminary findings, the EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over concerns that it gave Teams an “undue advantage” by bundling it with Office — Allegations that software giant is ‘tying’ its video app to Office are the first such case against it in more than a decade
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo drops its waitlist in San Francisco, letting anyone download its app and hail a robotaxi; in Phoenix, Waymo has been open to the public since October 2020 — ‘Simply download the app and ride.’ — The wait(list) is over. — Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to anyone who wants to ride in San Francisco.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies — Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI says the ChatGPT macOS app is now available to all users, after initially rolling it out to Plus subscribers — Over the last month, OpenAI has gradually been rolling out its first-ever ChatGPT app for Mac with Plus subscribers. Starting today, however, OpenAI says that the ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to everyone.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Etched, which is building Sohu, an inferencing chip that only runs transformer AI models, raised a $120M Series A, bringing its total funding to $125.36M — As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google will hold a Pixel event on August 13 at 10AM PT in Mountain View, where the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Pixel Watch 3 are expected — Google this morning announced that its annual Pixel hardware event will be taking place on August 13.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic debuts Projects, letting Claude.ai Pro and Team users work with chats, docs, code, and more in one place; each project includes a 200K context window — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company backed by Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, has launched a suite …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Users of the popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities changed a few days ago and aren't as fun as they once were — The company denied making “major changes,” but users report noticeable differences in the quality of their chatbot conversations.
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| Taras Buria / Neowin: |
Windows 11 changed the initial setup process to enable the automatic backup of folders to OneDrive without asking permission, annoying and confusing many users — Microsoft has made OneDrive slightly more annoying for Windows 11 users. Quietly and without any announcement …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Stability AI says it closed a new funding round; sources: investors committed $80M to take over the company, and some suppliers have forgiven debt obligations — Stability AI raised $100 million-plus in 2022 but is being recapitalized and aims to build a business around image-generation tool
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
ElevenLabs debuts its first iOS app, which turns any English-language text, including from PDFs and ePubs, into narrations by one of its “human-like voices” — If you've ever started reading an article on your iPhone only to have to drive somewhere, walk, bike, do chores … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta's Quest v67 PTC update adds an experimental option to let users freely position and resize 2D windows as well as “take any window fullscreen” — Quest v67 will finally let you freely position 2D windows, the Public Test Channel build reveals. — What Is the Public Test Channel (PTC)?
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Forums: r/OculusQuest, r/OculusQuest, r/virtualreality, r/Quest3, and r/OculusQuest
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Threads will let users like and see replies to their posts showing on federated social networks like Mastodon, and expands fediverse support to 100+ countries — Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Monday.
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Threads: @mttaggart, @matthewfacciani, @mgsiegler, @georgescriban, @mosseri, @zuck, @quillmatiq, @digiphile, @tsundokugames, @jaypeters.11, @ienjoy, and @joelgascoigne
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces updates to Snapchat's account blocking functionality and enhanced friending safeguards, making it difficult for strangers to contact its users — Snapchat on Tuesday announced a new suite of safety features, including updates to its account blocking functionality …
More: Snapchat, CNN, Engadget, Neowin, and Digital Trends
| Michael Wayland / CNBC: |
Cruise names Marc Whitten, a former Amazon and Microsoft executive, as its new CEO — DETROIT - General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit on Tuesday announced former Amazon and Microsoft executive Marc Whitten as its new CEO. — Whitten was a founding engineer at Microsoft's Xbox …
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