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| Akshat Rathi / Bloomberg: |
Environmental report: Google stops buying carbon offsets and no longer maintains operational carbon neutrality, but still aims to reach net-zero carbon by 2030 — The tech giant, which has seen its planet-warming emissions rise because of artificial intelligence, has stopped buying cheap offsets behind the neutrality claim.
More: Google Sustainability and AdExchanger
X: @parismarx, @climatevotersca, @satumma, @motorhueso, @davidgerard, @michaelrferrari, @zanegtcooper, and @sophiepurdom
LinkedIn: Akshat Rathi, Nicholas Lembo, and Kathleen Egan
Forums: r/environment and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
Source: Apple is not taking an observer role on OpenAI's board; OpenAI says it will host regular meetings with investors and partners like Microsoft and Apple — ChatGPT maker plans strategy to engage crucial partners as regulatory scrutiny of sector increases| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft gives up an observer seat on OpenAI's board, citing the new board's “significant progress” and saying the company is “confident” in OpenAI's direction — - “We appreciate the support shown by OpenAI leadership and the OpenAI board as we made this decision,” Microsoft said.
More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Reuters, and Cointelegraph
X: @dinabass, @lewis_crofts, and @lewis_crofts
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft hikes the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by $3 to $19.99/month for new subscribers and plans a Standard tier for $14.99/month without day-one titles — Microsoft is planning to hike its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate pricing again in September, alongside launching a new “standard” …
More: Windows Central, Xbox Support, Android Authority, Game World Observer, Dexerto, CNET, Wccftech, BGR, TheGamer, XboxEra, Neowin, Engadget, The Shortcut, MobileSyrup, IGN, GamingBolt, GameSpot, Press Start, Game Rant, Digital Trends, Kotaku, Notebookcheck, Video Games Chronicle, and Gematsu
Threads: @jaypeters.11 and @guillecummings
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Source: a16z has secured thousands of AI chips, including Nvidia H100 GPUs, and is renting them to portfolio companies, with the aim of expanding to 20K+ GPUs — Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most active venture capital investors in generative artificial intelligence …
More: Sequoia Capital and The Verge
Threads: @benedictevans. X: @carnage4life, @benbajarin, @anissagardizy8, @amir, @basedbeffjezos, @dickcheneyavi, @triviatroy, and @davidclinchnews
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US DOJ and its partners seized two domain names and 968 accounts on X used by Russian actors to create an AI-enhanced bot farm that spread disinformation — Russian media outlet RT ran the bot farm to pump out disinformation via 968 Twitter accounts, the US Justice Department says.
More: US Department of Justice, Joint Cybersecurity Advisory, The Register, Engadget, BleepingComputer, NBC News, Bloomberg, Reuters, NPR, The Verge, Newser, Decrypt, Social Media Today, SiliconANGLE, The Cyber Express, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Nextgov/FCW, and The Record
Threads: @renee.diresta, @eshumarneedi, @renee.diresta, @renee.diresta, and @kevincolliernbc
X: @jsrailton, @thejusticedept, @garymarcus, @bing_chris, @danawollman, @matthew_d_green, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, and @jsrailton. Forums: r/The_Mueller
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
IDC: global PC shipments rose 3% YoY to 64.9M units in Q2 2024; Apple's shipments rose 20.8% YoY, the biggest jump among global PC makers — Global shipments of personal computers rose by 3% in the second quarter, helped by demand for AI-capable devices, with Apple (AAPL.O) …
More: IDC, Canalys, Bloomberg, Neowin, MacTech.com, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, WinBuzzer, Spyglass, AppleInsider, and Patently Apple
X: @bryanbma and @patentlyapple
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Skild AI, which is building a foundational model for robotics, raised a $300M Series A at a $1.5B valuation led by Lightspeed, SoftBank, Coatue, and Jeff Bezos — Skild AI has raised $300 million to continue building its plug-and-play robotic intelligence with the hope of enabling companies to integrate it into robots of all kinds.
More: Skild AI, Analytics India Magazine, Sequoia Capital, and SiliconANGLE
X: @stephzhan, @pitdesi, @pathak2206, @ravirajjain, @stone_tao, and @pathak2206. LinkedIn: Abhinav Gupta
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Evolve Bank & Trust says LockBit accessed the personal data of at least 7.6M people during a February 2024 ransomware attack — U.S.-based banking-as-a-service giant Evolve Bank & Trust said that cybercriminals accessed the personal data of millions of customers during a recent cyberattack.
More: Office of the Maine Attorney General, The Register, Cyber Daily, Murphy Law Firm, InfoRiskToday.com, Security Affairs, Dark Reading, DataBreaches.Net, PCMag, Infosecurity, Fast Company, Stack Diary, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, Security Boulevard, Comparitech, Cybernews.com, and VentureBeat
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic now lets developers use Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate, test, and evaluate their prompts, and adds new features, like generating automatic test cases — Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it.
More: Anthropic and Analytics India Magazine
X: @chu_onthis, @omarsar0, @anthropicai, @mikeyk, @minimaxir, and @anthropicai
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to make its dark web monitoring feature available to all users for free in late July, no longer requiring a Google One membership — After the Google One VPN shutdown in late June, the “Dark Web reports” function is now coming to all Google Account holders from late July 2024.
More: Google Help Center, Android Headlines, Android Authority, MobileSyrup, Gizmodo, and WebProNews
Forums: Hacker News and r/google
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: xAI ends talks with Oracle to expand an existing arrangement to rent Nvidia chips; source: Oracle is not part of xAI's supercomputer project in Memphis — Larry Ellison may be a friend and backer of Elon Musk, but even the Oracle executive chair isn't immune from Musk's impatience.| CNN: |
An investigation finds Airbnb fails to protect its guests from hidden cameras and moves swiftly to contain user complaints and resolve them out of court — Watch AC360 at 8pm ET tonight for more on this investigation, including where cameras can be hidden inside Airbnb rentals. — CNN —
More: Boing Boing and The Verge
X: @kelliecnn, @donie, @fuentes_liza, @gabecanales, and @kyunglahcnn
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, and r/technology
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
The Biden administration plans to direct up to $1.6B in CHIPS Act funding towards R&D to accelerate domestic capacity for advanced chip packaging — The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Current and former Tesla staff: self-driving data annotation staff were told to prioritize analyzing car data of VIP drivers, like Elon Musk and YouTube stars — An curved arrow pointing right. — Tesla gives special treatment to data from VIPs, including Elon Musk, when training its self-driving AI.
More: Electrek, The Verge, and Benzinga
Threads: @fredlambert94, @moskov, @sebastianrako24, and @katienotopoulos. X: @tslafanmtl. Forums: r/RealTesla
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google begins rolling out speedometers in Google Maps for iOS and CarPlay globally, more than five years after adding the features to the Android app — Google Maps has introduced speedometer and speed limits on iOS and CarPlay — more than five years after their debut on Android … | Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal: |
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