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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances  —  The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why?  It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
David McCabe / New York Times:
Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft  —  The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
Wall Street Journal:
Source and documents: the US FTC sent civil subpoenas to Microsoft and Inflection AI seeking information about how and why they negotiated their partnership  —  Commission has sent subpoenas to tech giant and startup, asking whether their partnership evaded required government review
Financial Times:
US DOJ Assistant AG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter says he is examining “monopoly choke points and the competitive landscape” in AI, cloud, data, GPUs, and more
New York Times:
Sources: as the Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10K orders by early April, Humane started talking to HP about selling itself for $1B+; Humane has raised $240M  —  Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Humane tells Ai Pin owners that they should “immediately” stop using the charging case, citing issues with the battery cell that “may pose a fire safety risk”
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how Apple fell behind in the AI race: its AI team failing to collaborate with product teams, a lack of access to computing resources, and more  —  For those who saw them, the demonstrations inside Apple increase earlier this decade of a revamped Siri offered a showcase …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data  —  ‘Building a product is a bit like making art,’ said founder Jingna Zhang  —  Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
How Suicide Squad became the biggest video game flop of 2024 so far, including a tumultuous development and delayed release; WBD took a $200M loss on the game  —  After seven years of tumultuous development, Warner Bros. took a $200 million loss on the Rocksteady game
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia hit a $3T+ market cap on June 5, rising over 5% and passing Apple at $2.99T as the second most valuable public US company, behind Microsoft at $3.15T  —  Nvidia passed Apple in market cap on Wednesday as investors continue betting on the chipmaker behind the artificial intelligence boom.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to reach out after getting 7,000+ decryption keys to recover data for free; police seized 2,500+ keys in February 2024  —  The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account from December 1, after announcing the change in December 2023  —  Google Maps is changing the way it handles your location data.  Instead of backing up your data to the cloud, Google will soon store it locally on your device.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Carl Pei says smartphones will be the main AI form factor of the future, but the UX needs to be redefined, and Phone (3) will be Nothing's first true AI phone  —  Nothing CEO Carl Pei just published a video in which he makes two big claims: that smartphones are in fact the AI gadget of the future …
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics  —  ASML makes some of the most advanced chip-making machines.  It must balance Western demands to curb China's access while keeping a foothold in a key market.
Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand  —  Move comes a month after SEC notice of a potential lawsuit over the brokerage's crypto offerings
Bloomberg:
eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of “unacceptably high” transaction fees, from August 17  —  - Online marketplace calls Amex fees ‘unacceptably high’  — Change to take effect Aug. 17; Amex defends its fees

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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more

Peter White / Deadline:
Sources: WBD initiates a round of layoffs in its cable TV divisions, affecting well under 100 employees and largely impacting the Discovery side of the company

Barbara Tasch / BBC:
The BBC rejects a White House claim that it took down a Gaza story, after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the BBC of taking “the word of Hamas”

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Wired:
Investigation: 22M+ flight coordinates show how the US' first police drone program, in Chula Vista, California, impacts residents and raises privacy concerns
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Amazon's robotaxi unit Zoox plans to start testing its autonomous vehicles this summer in Austin and Miami, the company's fourth and fifth public testing cities
Jenny Gross / New York Times:
Several London hospitals face major disruptions after a June 3 ransomware attack on Synnovis, which provides blood transfusion and other services to the NHS
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
In a UK compliance statement, Apple revealed that the iPhone 15 Pro Max will receive security updates for a minimum of five years from its September 2023 launch
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model that generates up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use
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