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Google DeepMind rolls out AlphaProof AI model, which specializes in math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an updated version of a model focused on geometry — AI models, trained on text, have historically struggled with math reasoning — Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.'s artificial …
More: MIT Technology Review, Google DeepMind, New Scientist, New York Times, Semafor, Wired, and AIM
X: @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, @demishassabis, @googledeepmind, and @googledeepmind. LinkedIn: Jessica Yung. Forums: r/singularity
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: in a few weeks, the EU is set to hit Meta with its first antitrust fine, for up to 10% of its 2023 global revenue, for tying Marketplace and Facebook — Meta Platforms (META.O) is set to be hit in a few weeks with its first EU antitrust fine for tying classified advertisements service Marketplace … | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool — A leaked internal document shows Runway's celebrated Gen-3 AI video generator collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies for training data.
More: Dexerto. X: @mkbhd, @malwarejake, @ednewtonrex, @josephfcox, @paulroetzer, @emanuelmaiberg, @emanuelmaiberg, @samleecole, and @samleecole
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google updates its Gemini chatbot with Gemini 1.5 Flash and a 32K-token context window in its free tier, links to related content for some prompts, and more — Google's Gemini AI chatbot will be able to respond to you more quickly and process more content in prompts thanks to an upgrade to the company's Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model.
More: The Keyword, VentureBeat, Android Authority, ZDNET, Engadget, Android Police, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, TechRadar, Quartz, PhoneArena, and Digital Trends
| Sam Altman / Washington Post: |
We need a US-led global coalition of like-minded countries and a new strategy to ensure that a democratic vision for AI prevails over an authoritarian one — Sam Altman is co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. — Who will control the future of AI? — That is the urgent question of our time.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft unveils Bing generative search, which shows LLM-generated answers with the sources used to create them, currently available to a small subset of users — Bing will soon prioritize AI-generated answers alongside traditional search results. — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
More: Bing Blogs, Thurrott, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, Cybernews.com, The Decoder, TechRadar, Dataconomy, The Verge, POLARIS, Engadget, TechSpot, Lifewire, WinBuzzer, The Indian Express, Search Engine Journal, MSPoweruser, NewsBytes, TweakTown, Search Engine Roundtable, Phandroid, Business Today, SiliconANGLE, TestingCatalog, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Neowin, and Search Engine Land
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| Financial Times: |
The UK FCA fines Coinbase £3.5M for providing payment services to 13K+ “high-risk” customers, in the agency's first enforcement action against a crypto company — Penalty for exchange's payments unit is first enforcement action by FCA against a crypto company
More: Financial Conduct Authority, Coinbase, Decrypt, Blockworks, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, CoinDesk, Neowin, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Bitcoin Insider, Bloomberg, CCN.com, CoinGape, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, Reuters, Milk Road, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph. LinkedIn: Andrew Henderson
| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Revolut secures a UK banking license, ending a more-than-three-year-long regulatory battle; the London-based fintech has ~9M UK customers and 45M+ globally — London-based fintech receives approval from regulators in boost to expansion plans — Revolut has secured a UK banking licence …
More: Revolut, Payments Dive, PYMNTS.com, The Guardian, BusinessLIVE, Bitcoin Insider, Crypto Briefing, Sifted, Silicon Republic, Fortune, TechCrunch, Telegraph, UKTN, Tech Funding News, Reuters, London Evening Standard, Tech Monitor, Cryptonews, The Block, TNW, Finextra, Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, and CoinJournal
LinkedIn: Alex Barkley, Rolandas Juteika, Adam Grose, and Sarah Baldwin
Forums: r/Revolut and r/ukpolitics
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Microsoft says “Bing stopped crawling Reddit” after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 to prohibit “all crawling of their site” — Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site.
More: Ars Technica, Thurrott, The TV Answer Man!, PCMag, Anthropic, Android Authority, and Neowin
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Chainguard, which helps companies secure their software supply chain, raised a $140M Series C co-led by Redpoint, Lightspeed, and IVP at a $1.12B valuation — Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity startup Chainguard announced a $140 million Series C investment, bumping its valuation … | Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Meta removes ~63K Instagram accounts used by sextortion scammers in Nigeria, along with ~7,200 Facebook accounts, Pages, and Groups linked to the Yahoo Boys — - Purge includes thousands of Groups offering sextortion ‘tips’ — One network of 20 criminals was running 2,500 fake accounts| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
After investigating how Meta handles explicit AI-generated images, the Oversight Board asks Meta to shift “derogatory” terminology to “non-consensual”, and more — Following investigations into how Meta handles AI-generated explicit images, the company's semi-independent observer body …
More: Benzinga, The Verge, Silicon UK, Tech Xplore, Associated Press, The Independent, Oversight Board, Reuters, PCMag, and Fast Company
| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's X poll asking whether Tesla should invest $5B in xAI ends with 67.9% voting yes, after Musk said on Tesla's earnings call that he supported the idea — - CEO takes poll on whether EV maker should back his startup — The two companies have intermingled on procurement, recruiting
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, TweakTown, and CNBC
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI introduces Rule-Based Rewards, a method to automate some model fine-tuning and cut down the time required to ensure a model behaves safely — OpenAI announced a new way to teach AI models to align with safety policies called Rules Based Rewards. — According to Lilian Weng … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD delays its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch, originally set for July, to August due to an unspecified quality issue, and pulls back all shipped units to replace them — AMD hits the brakes on its Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 processors. — AMD announced today that it has delayed its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch due …
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Forums: r/gadgets, r/AMD_Stock, and r/hardware
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag — It's not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch.
More: Forbes, ZDNET, AppleInsider, Android Central, Mashable, Digital Trends, Business Insider, and Android Police. Threads: @vicmsong
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The new Disney+, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle goes on sale in the US for $16.99 per month with ads and $29.99 per month without ads — Dragons, Jedis, Marvel and DC superheroes, Harry Potter, Disney princesses — and more from Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery — are now available to stream for a reduced monthly price.| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Around 500 World of Warcraft workers vote to unionize with the CWA, bringing the number of unionized US gaming employees at Microsoft to around 1,750 — World of Warcraft workers have voted to unionize the popular video-game franchise, expanding organized labor's new foothold at Microsoft Corp. by around 500 employees.
More: The Verge, Game Developer, IGN, HotHardware, Benzinga, Variety, TechRaptor, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, New York Times, PC Games Insider, Game World Observer, Stevivor, Los Angeles Times, TheGamer, Aftermath, Game Rant, TechRadar, Engadget, Neowin, GamesIndustry.biz, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @wowgg_cwa, @ethangach, @carnage4life, @alphabetworkers, @tha_rami, and @shannon_liao. LinkedIn: Josh Eidelson
| TechCrunch: |
Google debuts new Maps features in India to help users easily navigate though flyovers and narrow roads, says it built an AI model specifically for Indian roads — Google is adding a slew of new features to Google Maps in India as it seeks to become a one-stop-shop for navigation and travel in the country.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Privacy-focused developer Proton debuts a self-custody bitcoin wallet, its first cryptocurrency product, initially for early access Proton Visionary subscribers — When you think about it, Proton has always been a crypto company — cryptography, not cryptocurrency.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
A group of 17 US lawmakers ask Meta to delay shutting down CrowdTangle for at least six months, saying that Meta Content Library has “significant limitations” — A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Wednesday sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter asking the firm to delay shutting down CrowdTangle for six months.
More: The Information, WinBuzzer, and U.S. Senator Christopher Coons …
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches Apple Maps on the web in beta, available in English and compatible with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, and Chrome and Edge on Windows PCs — Apple is bringing Apple Maps to the web for the first time. In a press release today, the company announced that you can now access Apple Maps …
More: Apple, Windows Central, Mashable, HotHardware, Laptop Mag, Ghacks, BetaNews, Gizmochina, Neowin, MySmartPrice, Business Standard, iMore, PhoneArena, The Indian Express, TechSpot, XDA Developers, autoevolution, International Business Times, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, GSMArena.com, TidBITS, Search Engine Roundtable, iDrop News, Pocket-lint, Patently Apple, Android Police, MacStories, The Verge, and MacRumors
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