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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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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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 …
More: CNET, Mashable, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, TechRadar, Road to VR, UploadVR, 9to5Google, and The Hindu
| 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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| 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.
More: Galaxy, The Daily Hodl, and Crypto Briefing
| Anuj Ahooja / augment: |
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.
Threads: @thetechsavvyassistant, @documentingmeta, @lucid_voyager, @eleonor.rose, @saramontourlewis, @hi.im.vijay, @ananth.pradeep, @quillmatiq, @vishvanands, and @laurenlopes.author. Forums: Hacker News
| 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| 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 … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content — A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …
More: Science, Mashable, The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, Decrypt, NPR, MIT Technology Review, and Tech Xplore
| 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.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers — Stolen data includes millions of AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and location-related data.
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