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Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose — In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements
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Outspent by tech companies, universities are racing to stay relevant in AI research, as some academics turn their focus to less computing-intensive areas of AI — Outspent by Big Tech, some academics are focusing on research that requires less computing power, even as they try to build more of it| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market with a focus on elections that has raised $70M+ and traded $350M+ in predictions on the US election — Prediction markets can provide a clear signal through even the most deafening noise. That's why Americans are obsessively refreshing this one.
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| Matthew Connatser / The Register: |
Intel has been facing mounting pressure to fix Raptor Lake CPU stability issues since February 2024; a game studio accuses Intel of selling “defective” CPUs — High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD
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| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Source: Google and Samsung's XR headset, codenamed Moohan and initially planned for Q1 2024, is now set for March 2025, with a developer version in October 2024 — - Google recently reshuffled the ranks to consolidate teams working in augmented reality. — The release of Google …
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Galaxy Digital: investment in crypto by VCs and others rose to $3.2B in Q2 2024, the highest amount in a quarter since Q4 2022, and up from $2.5B in Q1 2024 — Plus, updates on former FTX executives and PayPal's stablecoin … Crypto start-ups trying to raise money have found it very difficult over the past few years.
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Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform — It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple approves the first PC emulator for iOS, UTM SE, weeks after initially rejecting and barring it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the EU — Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after its near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI — After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much. And don't ask it to license its archive to AI.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Arkham: the German government appears to have sold its last bitcoin on July 12, after authorities seized ~50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, in January 2024 from suspects — - The German government had received 50,000 Bitcoin in January — Bitcoin's price has been choppy in recent weeks on worries
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| Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: |
Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts — Campaign is part of tech giant's long-running global battle to prevent employees from organising| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
A look at the rise and fall of Jump Crypto and former President Kanav Kariya, and Jump's involvement in some of crypto's biggest scandals, like FTX's collapse — The Zoom meeting at Jump Crypto was always running. And in May 2021, a scrum of employees was on the screen, discussing a mounting crisis.Sponsor Posts
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