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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — The legal battle was spurred by book publishers objecting to the archive's digital lending library.
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| Reuters: |
Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1B from a16z, Sequoia, DST, and others, sources say at a $5B valuation — Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/mlscaling
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's contract manufacturing business has suffered a setback after tests with chipmaker Broadcom using Intel's advanced 18A chipmaking process failed — Intel's (INTC.O) contract manufacturing business has suffered a setback after tests with chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) failed …
More: SiliconANGLE, Phoenix Business Journal, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, Engadget, Wccftech, Benzinga, and TechPowerUp
X: @benbajarin. LinkedIn: Max A. Cherney. Forums: r/intel, r/hardware, r/wallstreetbets, and r/AMD_Stock
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Mastodon: @darkuncle@infosec.exchange. X: @gartenberg, @stevesi, @stevesi, @witeken, and @stratechery. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns — - Bloomberg reported on the antitrust investigation Tuesday — Nvidia says it has been in contact with the Justice Department
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, as Elon Musk battles Brazil's top court over X — The moves show how Musk's legal dispute about X is affecting SpaceX and its Starlink satellite-internet service
More: Reuters. Mastodon: @parismarx@mastodon.online and @dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz. Bluesky: @clemens.vasters.com. X: @micahmaidenberg
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| Rhian Lubin / The Independent: |
Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane — Self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed Winston Churchill ‘was the villain of Second World War’ and that millions …
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Forums: r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/inthenews, and r/Jewish
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks — Google announced on Tuesday it's releasing Android 15 and making its source code available ahead of the coming consumer launch …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Sources: OSOM, the smartphone company founded by former Essential employees, is shutting down later this week, after a lawsuit alleged its CEO misused funds — OSOM is effectively closing up shop later this week and laying off most of its employees. — • — TL;DR| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces its first eight-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will ship in new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 laptops that start at $899 each — Today, the company's announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that'll retail for $899 each.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens, higher rate limits, and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price — Anthropic is launching a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, catered towards enterprise customers …
More: PYMNTS.com, Computerworld, Cryptopolitan, Wall Street Journal, The Decoder, Fast Company, VentureBeat, AIM, and CNBC
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Meta's Oversight Board rules that the phrase “from the river to the sea” is not necessarily hate speech when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — The independent board said the phrase has ‘multiple meanings’ and is important to political speech on Instagram and Facebook.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
The UK CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of Inflection's team doesn't cause competition concerns, and won't pursue an investigation, but calls the deal a merger — Good news for Microsoft: The U.K.'s antitrust regulator says that the tech titan's high-profile acquihire of the team behind AI startup Inflection …
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock — Trump Media shares on Wednesday closed below where they stood at the end of 2023, as the Truth Social maker's stock continued … | Reuters: |
Ireland's DPC ends court proceedings against X, after X agreed to limit its use of personal data collected from EU users to train its AI on a permanent basis — Ireland's data regulator on Wednesday said it had ended court proceedings against social media platform X after it agreed to limit …
More: Engadget, Bloomberg, The Cyber Express, Cryptopolitan, Irish Independent, and The Record
| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US court grants X a preliminary injunction against California's AB 587, which requires disclosure of moderation policies, reversing a lower court decision — Search by Topic — X Corp. convinced a federal appeals court that a California law requiring social media companies to disclose … | Forbes: |
Bolt's Ryan Breslow thanked 13 investors in an email for supporting a $450M Series F, but some say they hadn't given support; BlackRock moves to block the round — The Bolt founder claimed a group of investors had signed off on the company's chaotic $450 million raise, but some said they hadn't.| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
Ubisoft's stock fell 10%+ to an almost 10-year low in the past two days, giving it a market cap of €1.99B, following the lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws — Ubisoft stock prices have tanked by over 10% in the past two days following a lukewarm reception to Star Wars Outlaws.
More: Reuters, Video Games Chronicle, TheGamer, Bespin Bulletin, and Gamereactor UK
Forums: r/xbox, r/kindafunny, r/GhostRecon, r/fuckubisoft, r/ubisoft, r/KotakuInAction, and r/Games
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands daylist, a free personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on listening habits, globally and adds support for 14 languages — Spotify is launching daylist globally. It's a personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on your listening habits.
More: Spotify, How-To Geek, Billboard, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, MakeUseOf, Cybernews.com, Android Authority, Music Ally, and Axios
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
C3.ai reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $87.2M, vs. $86.9M est., and subscription revenue up 20% YoY to $73.5M, vs. $79.1M est.; its stock falls 16%+ after hours — C3.ai (AI.N) missed quarterly subscription revenue estimates on Wednesday, as enterprises tightened spending amid economic uncertainties …
More: Benzinga, C3 AI, Bloomberg, Proactive, and Constellation Research
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a side-channel attack, which requires ~$11K worth of equipment and can be used to clone all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7 — Sophisticated attack breaks security assurances of the most popular FIDO key. — The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/netsec, r/technology, Beehaw, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| CNN: |
The US DOJ seizes 32 internet domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian interference in the 2024 US elections — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
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| Min Jeong Lee / BNN Bloomberg: |
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, which unveiled several AI models for Japanese speakers, raised a $100M Series A led by NEA, Khosla, and Lux, with Nvidia participating — (Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. has joined a $100 million-plus funding round for Tokyo startup Sakana AI, one of the larger investments … | TechCrunch: |
X debuts a beta TV app “on several app stores”, like for Amazon Fire TV and Google TV, to court advertisers, creators, and partners to a “video-first platform” — Years ago, Twitter tried but eventually walked away from building TV apps after getting a lukewarm reception.| Anna J Kaiser / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a16z shut its Miami office in May 2024 because staff weren't using it enough; VC funding to Miami-based startups has flagged since 2022's crypto rout — When Andreessen Horowitz opened an outpost in Miami Beach, the $43 billion venture capital giant bolstered the region's ambitions of becoming a tropical tech mecca.
More: Fortune, PYMNTS.com, and San Francisco Business Times
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In July 29 comments to the UK CMA, Microsoft says Apple's App Review Guidelines changes aren't enough for it to operate a native Xbox Cloud Gaming app for iOS — Earlier this year Apple started opening up its App Store to game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now …
More: UK CMA, iLounge, MacRumors, and iMore
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