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July 5, 2024, 9:55 AM

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Reuters:
Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit up 1,452% YoY to $7.54B, and revenue up 23% YoY to ~$53.7B, as chip prices keep rising  —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) estimated on Friday a more than 15-fold rise in its second-quarter operating profit, as rebounding semiconductor prices driven …
Reuters:
Epic says Apple is impeding its attempts to set up a games store on iPhones and iPads in Europe and that it has shared its concerns with the European Commission  —  “Fortnite” maker Epic Games said on Friday Apple (AAPL.O) was impeding its attempts to set up a games store on iPhones and iPads in Europe …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all customers  —  Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Sources: in early 2023, a hacker breached OpenAI's internal messaging systems and accessed product details; OpenAI told its staff, but not the public or the FBI  —  A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI's systems.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube releases an updated Erase Song tool for creators that uses AI to detect and remove any copyrighted music from their videos without impacting other audio  —  On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music …
Benjamin Taubman / Bloomberg:
TRM: cryptocurrency stolen through hacks more than doubled to $1.38N in H1 2024 from a year earlier; five large attacks accounted for 70% of the crypto stolen  —  - Attack on Japanese exchange DMM Bitcoin was biggest in 2024  — Amount is still below the record 2022 level, TRM says
More: Reuters
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
ElevenLabs will use AI-generated voices of dead actors like Judy Garland and Burt Reynolds in its Reader app, after striking deals with the actors' estates  —  Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you'll soon be able to hear …

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