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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
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.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple rejected Meta's overtures to integrate Llama into the iPhone months ago, in part because it sees Meta's privacy practices as not stringent enough  —  - Apple has been looking to forge agreements to use AI chatbots  — Report indicated that Apple and Meta are in discussions
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.
Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge:
Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2024 on July 16 and July 17 in 23 countries, including the US, the UK, and Japan; India will get a Prime Day later this summer  —  As expected, Amazon's annual sales event for Prime subscribers will once again take place in mid-July.
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
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.
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 …
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Sources: the US is probing China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom for possibly providing Americans' data to Beijing via the companies' US cloud services  —  The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access …
Reuters:
EvolutionaryScale releases AI models called ESM3 to help engineer novel proteins and raised a $142M seed led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Lux Capital  —  EvolutionaryScale, an artificial intelligence startup focused on biology, said Tuesday it had raised $142 million in seed funding …
The Information:
Sources: Google has been developing a product for creating customizable chatbots, which could be modeled on celebrities, and plans to launch it as soon as 2024  —  Google wants chatbots that people can hang with—not just pelt with questions.  —  The search engine giant has been developing …

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Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Prince Harry's phone-hacking lawsuit against News Group Newspaper will go to trial in January 2026, with the parties' legal costs set to exceed £38M

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sony buying Kadokawa would help reduce its reliance on outside publishers for anime IP and build out its own portfolio to support PlayStation and other products

Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN confirms Kaitlan Collins as its chief White House correspondent; she will become CNN's first prime-time anchor to also serve as its top White House reporter

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With an economy hobbled by Western sanctions and inflation, desperate Iranians are flocking to “tap-to-earn” crypto mini apps in Telegram like Hamster Kombat

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Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Sources: Amazon is working on an AI chatbot, codenamed Metis, designed to compete directly with ChatGPT; source: Metis is tentatively set to launch in September
Mia Sato / The Verge:
The RIAA sues AI music services Suno and Udio over alleged mass copyright infringement and claims they are trying to “hide the full scope of their infringement”
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
In preliminary findings, the EU says Apple's anti-steering developer rules breach the DMA; the EU is also probing if Apple's developer fees comply with EU rules
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