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Microsoft gives up an observer seat on OpenAI's board, saying it has seen “significant progress” from the new board and 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.
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| 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
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| Akshat Rathi / Bloomberg: |
Google says it has stopped purchasing carbon offsets and is no longer maintaining 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: @davidgerard, @climatevotersca, @motorhueso, @michaelrferrari, @zanegtcooper, @sophiepurdom, @satumma, and @parismarx
LinkedIn: Kathleen Egan, Akshat Rathi, and Nicholas Lembo
Forums: r/environment and r/technology
| 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” …
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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.
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| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
IDC: global shipments of PCs reached 64.9M units in Q2 2024, up 3% YoY; 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) …
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X: @bryanbma and @patentlyapple
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Skild AI, which is developing a foundational model for robotics, raised a $300M Series A at a $1.5B valuation led by Lightspeed, SoftBank, Coatue, 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, Sequoia Capital, Maginative, and SiliconANGLE
X: @stephzhan, @pitdesi, @pathak2206, @ravirajjain, @stone_tao, and @pathak2206. LinkedIn: Abhinav Gupta
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Evolve Bank & Trust says that the personal data of at least 7.6M people was accessed during a February 2024 ransomware attack by LockBit — 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.
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| 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
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google will make its dark web monitoring feature available to all users for free in late July 2024, no longer requiring a Google One membership to access it — 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, NewsBytes, Android Authority, Android Headlines, 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.| 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 … | 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: @sebastianrako24, @moskov, @katienotopoulos, and @fredlambert94. X: @tslafanmtl. Forums: r/RealTesla
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
The Biden administration says it will 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.| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: the Google Pixel Watch 3 will come in 41mm and 45mm sizes, have smaller 4.5mm bezels, a brighter 2,000-nit display, and ultra-wideband support — The new Pixel Watch will finally fix some of the series' oldest problems. — • — The Google Pixel Watch 2 was a massive upgrade …
More: Wccftech, The Verge, PhoneArena, Android Police, GSMArena.com, Android Headlines, 9to5Google, Droid Life, and Tom's Guide
Forums: r/PixelWatch and r/Android
| Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Electronics's union workers declare an indefinite strike on the final day of a three-day walkout and say management showed no intention of holding talks — Union cites management's unwillingness to talk to union leaders — Samsung Electronics unionized workers have decided to launch … | Bloomberg: |
A group of investors led by Vista Equity Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Nasuni, valuing the hybrid cloud storage provider at ~$1.2B — - Majority stake transaction values Nasuni at about $1.2 billion … The deal values Nasuni at about $1.2 billion …
More: Nasuni, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and Tech Startups
LinkedIn: Alyssa Lodge, Paul Flanagan, and Chip Hazard
| Matthew Connatser / The Register: |
A US judge dismisses more claims in a lawsuit brought by devs, who allege GitHub Copilot unlawfully copied their code; of 22 original claims, only two remain — A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond - who did you think was going to win? — Claims by developers that GitHub Copilot … Sponsor Posts
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