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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.
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Threads: @navneetalang. X: @openai, @samhouston, @sama, @mparakhin, @kayjebelli, @lewis_crofts, @ianzelbo, @kyliebytes, @edludlow, and @samhouston. Forums: r/technology
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
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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 …
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X: @stephentotilo, @adashtra, @shannon_liao, @adashtra, and @adashtra
LinkedIn: Jodie Hudson and Sarah Parvini
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Futurism, VentureBeat, The Verge, PetaPixel, Wccftech, and Dexerto
Threads: @alexheath. X: @mkbhd, @paulroetzer, @samleecole, @samleecole, @emanuelmaiberg, @emanuelmaiberg, @malwarejake, @kevinroose, @alex, @ednewtonrex, @samleecole, and @josephfcox. LinkedIn: Samantha Cole
| 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, Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, MIT Technology Review, New York Times, Reuters, ZDNET, Axios, SiliconANGLE, New Scientist, The Guardian, AIM, Wired, Maginative, and Semafor
LinkedIn: Alik Sokolov, Arindam Khan, and Jessica Yung
Forums: Hacker News, r/math, r/singularity, and r/slatestarcodex
| 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 … | G.S Vasan / 91mobiles: |
Leaked promo material reveals Pixel 9 series specs: all phones powered by Tensor G4, Pixel 9 Pro in 6.3-inch and 6.8-inch models with 16GB of RAM, and more — - Google Pixel 9 Pro will come in a 6.3-inch model and a 6.8-inch model. — Google boasts a 24-hour battery and seven years of security updates with the Pixel 9 Pro.
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X: @onleaks, @onleaks, @onleaks, @sondesix, @ishanagarwal24, @dalevon_digital, and @sondesix
Forums: r/Android and r/GooglePixel
| 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: MacRumors, The Verge, Reuters, Android Authority, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Eurogamer.net, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, BGR, IGN, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, Mobilegamer.biz, and WinBuzzer
X: @timsweeneyepic, @altstoreio, and @timsweeneyepic
Forums: r/Android, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.| 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, Wired, Thurrott, Engadget, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says 97% of Windows sensors are back online, about a week after CrowdStrike shipped a faulty update that bricked Windows computers — - “While I can't promise perfection, I can promise a response that is focused, effective, and with a sense of urgency.”| Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian: |
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| 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: 9to5Mac, CNBC, The Verge, WhatsApp Blog, WABetaInfo, Engadget, and Bloomberg
| 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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| 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: Platformer, The Register, The Hill, Business Insider, Maginative, and Axios
Threads: @crumbler. X: @sama, @sama, @jimvandehei, @george_chen, and @sama. LinkedIn: Katrina Mulligan
| 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, and PetaPixel
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad has blown up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other Silicon Valley names — A decade-old drama involving VC David Sacks and Rippling founder Parker Conrad over their previous company Zenefits has blown …
More: Fortune, The Information, and Protos
Threads: @benedictevans. Bluesky: @mack70d.bsky.social. X: @paulg, @parkerconrad, @mwseibel, @bcmerchant, @pjux, @mahaniok, @shaunmmaguire, @t3dotgg, @realchrisrufo, @davidsacks, @pitdesi, @pitdesi, @davidsacks, @jdionnecomedy, @mwseibel, @sqs, @ryanrneu, @dj_curfew, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @beyang, @pjux, @davidsacks, @denehyxxl, @paulg, @teddypowday, @chamath, @davidsacks, @eastdakota, @jjacobs22, @ericbahn, @davidsacks, @paulg, and @davidsacks
| 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, Search Engine Roundtable, Windows Central, SiliconANGLE, Social Media Today, Laptop Mag, MediaPost, Inc.com, Cautious Optimism, TweakTown, Ars Technica, Mashable, and Engadget
X: @florian4gamers, @tomzur, @wavesblog, @cyrusshepard, @kirsons, and @rustybrick
Forums: Hacker News and r/microsoft
| 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, CNBC, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Cybernews.com, Blockworks, Cryptonews, Bitcoin Insider, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, Reuters, and The Block
LinkedIn: Andrew Henderson and Venetia Jackson
| 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
| 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, Bank Automation News, The Guardian, Forrester, BusinessLIVE, Payments Dive, and Reuters
LinkedIn: Rolandas Juteika, Adam Grose, Sarah Baldwin, and Alex Barkley
Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/Revolut
| Reuters: |
Canalys: China's smartphone shipments rose 10% YoY in Q2, with Huawei's shipments up 41%; Apple's market share in China dropped to 14%, down from 16% in Q2 2023 — Apple's smartphone shipments in China fell by 6.7% in the second quarter of 2024, as the tech giant faced intensifying competition …
More: AppleInsider, Canalys, Seeking Alpha, Patently Apple, Quartz, Silicon UK, and MacDailyNews
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