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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a search tool powered by GPT-4 that can organize links and summarize its findings, available as a prototype to 10,000 users at launch — OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Dexerto, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, CNET, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Android Police, The Information, Axios, Forbes, PhoneArena, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, Quartz, CryptoSlate, Pocket-lint, Benzinga, TechEBlog, Maginative, Trusted Reviews, Yahoo Finance, Watcher Guru, Semafor, and Associated Press
X: @sama, @openai, @ianzelbo, @edludlow, @samhouston, and @kyliebytes
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI says it partnered with publishers including WSJ and The Atlantic to build its search engine SearchGPT; publishers can manage how their content appears — Built with input from publishers, SearchGPT will summarize real-time information on websites — OpenAI is launching a test version …
More: GeekWire, Ars Technica, The Register, Android Authority, PCMag, Engadget, How-To Geek, Financial Times, Thurrott, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, Search Engine Land, CNBC, VentureBeat, ZDNET, Reuters, TechRadar, BBC, Neowin, Tech Xplore, The Decoder, Android Headlines, Yahoo Finance, CoinGape, TipRanks Financial, Search Engine Journal, Mashable, Notebookcheck, and Cointelegraph. X: @dsivakumar
| 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: The Information, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget, POCIT, Wccftech, Dexerto, and PetaPixel
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| Sarah Parvini / Associated Press: |
SAG-AFTRA announces a strike starting Friday against major video game companies, including EA, after talks for a new contract broke down over AI protections — Hollywood's video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage …
More: SAG-AFTRA, NBC News, Gizmodo, New York Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Windows Central, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget, Variety, Neowin, TheGamer, IGN, MobileSyrup, ComingSoon.net, Polygon, TweakTown, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Aftermath, Digital Trends, TechRaptor, Kotaku, and Dot Esports
| Bloomberg: |
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: Google DeepMind, Reuters, ZDNET, Axios, SiliconANGLE, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, New Scientist, Maginative, The Decoder, New York Times, Semafor, Wired, and AIM
LinkedIn: Arindam Khan and Jessica Yung
Forums: Hacker News and r/math
| 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 … | 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.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
FTC's newly unredacted filings quote an Adobe exec comparing early termination fees to “heroin”; Adobe's Dana Rao says the person was not on the leadership team — Early termination fees are “a bit like heroin for Adobe,” according to an Adobe executive quoted …
More: The Register, Business Insider, PetaPixel, PCMag, and 9to5Mac
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence apologizes for Sonos' redesigned app, which launched in May to widespread criticism, and promises biweekly app updates through the fall — The big Sonos app redesign was intended to make the company's software more modern, customizable, and easier to use.
More: Sonos, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Engadget, AppleInsider, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Digital Trends
| 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: 404 Media, The Verge, Windows Central, SiliconANGLE, Search Engine Roundtable, Inc.com, Social Media Today, Laptop Mag, Mashable, MediaPost, Gizmodo, TweakTown, Ars Technica, PC Gamer, Cautious Optimism, PCMag, WinBuzzer, The TV Answer Man!, Engadget, Neowin, Android Authority, and Anthropic
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Forums: Hacker News and r/microsoft
| Epic Games: |
Epic plans to bring its mobile games to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and remove its games from the Galaxy Store due to Samsung blocking sideloading by default — We are fast approaching a quantum leap in Epic's efforts to bring our games to players on mobile devices.
More: 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, Mobilegamer.biz, and WinBuzzer
| 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.
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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
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LinkedIn: Venetia Jackson and Andrew Henderson
| 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.
More: The Hill, Business Insider, Maginative, and Axios
| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Russia says it will throttle YouTube download speeds on computers by 70% by the end of next week, as “a consequence of the anti-Russian policy of the host” — - Download speeds to be slowed by 70% by the end of next week — YouTube one of last US social media sites available in Russia| 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, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Sifted, Payments Dive, The Guardian, BusinessLIVE, TechCrunch, UKTN, Bitcoin Insider, Tech Funding News, Tech Monitor, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, The Block, TNW, Fortune, Silicon Republic, Finextra, Silicon Canals, and Telegraph
LinkedIn: Alex Barkley, Rolandas Juteika, Adam Grose, and Sarah Baldwin
Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/Revolut
| 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, Android Central, AppleInsider, ZDNET, Mashable, Digital Trends, and Business Insider
| TechCrunch: |
Google debuts new Maps features in India to help users easily navigate through flyovers and narrow roads, says it made 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.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says a judge has dismissed a Washington state case, alleging that Amazon exposed warehouse workers to injuries, for lack of evidence — - State had investigated conditions at four company faciliites — The ruling is a major victory for the e-commerce giant| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
DefiLlama and Wintermute: the aggregate market cap of stablecoins crossed $164B for the first time since the collapse of Terra in May 2022; USDT is at $114.26B — Renewed expansion in stablecoins is bullish for the broader crypto market. — Expansion of the stablecoin market is bullish for the broader crypto ecosystem.
More: Cryptopolitan and The Crypto Times
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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 … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp now has more than 100M MAUs in the US and that more than 50% of WhatsApp users in the country have an iPhone; WhatsApp has 2B+ MAUs globally — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday on his channel that WhatsApp now has more than 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. …
More: Engadget, Bloomberg, The Verge, WhatsApp Blog, and Social Media Today
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Anthropic says it does not support California's AI safety bill and suggests changes, including a shift from “pre-harm enforcement” to “outcome-based deterrence” — - The bill, which many startups and tech companies have come out against, would make AI developers legally liable …
More: Mercury News and Financial Times
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI details Rule-Based Rewards, a method it has been using 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.| Maia Spoto / Bloomberg: |
California's Supreme Court upholds Prop 22, allowing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other companies to keep classifying California drivers as independent contractors — The unanimous ruling upholding California's Proposition 22 was released Thursday. — The favorable ruling … | 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 accountsSponsor Posts
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