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Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset containing YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, MrBeast, and MIT — Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data …
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Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold details, including photos, battery sizes, and charging speeds, leak from Taiwanese regulator NCC — The upcoming Pixels leak yet again — this time giving us a real life look at the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. — •
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Elon Musk says that X's headquarters will move to Austin, after he protested a new California law that bans schools' transgender notification policies — San Francisco real estate market participants confirmed last week that a majority of the Market Street headquarters of X Corp. …
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say Trump is the right choice for “Little Tech”; sources say they plan to make large donations to PACs supporting his campaign — Venture capital bigwigs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have told staff at Andreessen Horowitz that they plan …
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After Trump was shot, Elon Musk endorsed him and stepped up his own political speech in 100+ posts, entering uncharted territory for a social media leader — The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former president, as he drives political conversation on his site.| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former head of Tesla's autopilot unit, unveils Eureka Labs, a “new kind of school” aiming to support teachers with AI — Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Taboola CEO Adam Singolda says the company has struck a deal with Apple to power native advertising in the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps; TBLA jumps ~5% — - Taboola's effort to build trust with Apple across its various teams and stakeholders was “a multiyear process,'” Singolda said.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Search Labs is ending its Notes experiment, which debuted in December 2023 as a way to let users leave “helpful tips about an article” directly on Search — Back in November, Google Search Labs launched a Notes experiment and it's now coming to an end with the feature ultimately not launching.| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Mistral launches two 7B LLMs: Codestral Mamba, for code generation, based on the Mamba architecture, and Mathstral, for math reasoning and scientific discovery — The well-funded French AI startup Mistral, known for its powerful open source AI models, launched two new entries in its growing family …
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens a formal investigation into Microsoft's Inflection AI investment, and sets a September 11 deadline on whether to open an in-depth investigation — - CMA said it needs to look further at the firm's partnership — Watchdog is taking closer order of Big Tech investment into AI
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Source: in an informal inquiry, the US FTC has asked Amazon to provide more details on its deal to hire top executives and license tech from AI startup Adept — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to provide more details on its deal to hire top executives …
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San Jose-based DreamBig, which develops chiplet platforms and was founded in 2019, raised a $75M equity round co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Sehat Sutardja — Semiconductors are on a pretty good run right now. — San Jose, California-based DreamBig Semiconductor became the second chip startup …
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