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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
A New York lawyer faces sanctions for using ChatGPT to write his legal brief that had “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations”  —  A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on artificial intelligence to help prepare a court filing.
Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer:
The developers behind open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin say Nintendo sent Valve a DMCA takedown notice to block Dolphin's impending release on Steam  —  The GameCube & Wii emulator developers say the Steam release is “indefinitely postponed.”  —  On Friday, the developers behind …
Tracy Wen Liu / Wired:
Source and analysis: PDD-owned Temu is losing an average of $30 per order and between ~$588M to ~$954M per year, as the app tries to break into the US market  —  The Chinese shopping app is topping app stores in the US.  But it's burning money and squeezing its suppliers to a breaking point in a bid to take on Amazon.
Andrew Logan / Texas Monthly:
A profile of Tapbots co-founders Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine; former Twitter executive Amir Shevat says third-party apps once accounted for ~17% of engagement  —  After Elon Musk killed their Twitter app, two software developers in the North Texas suburbs are trying to shape the future of social media.
Bloomberg:
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US “won't tolerate” China's ban on Micron chips in some critical sectors and calls the decision “economic coercion”  —  Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US “won't tolerate” the recent decision by Chinese authorities …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Hands-on with Meta's Quest 3 prototype: lighter, thinner, faster, and with better video pass-through than the Quest 2, but the VR displays have similar clarity  —  This week, I go hands-on with Meta's yet-to-be-announced Quest 3 and explain how it may be the biggest challenger to Apple's new headset.
Cam Thompson / CoinDesk:
DappRadar: Blur's NFT lending marketplace Blend accumulated 169.9K ETH, or ~$308M, in trading volume since its May 1 launch, taking 82% in lending market share  —  Since NFT lending marketplace Blend launched May 1, it has amassed 169,900 ETH, or about $308 Million in volume.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's MR headset could succeed where others failed by adding more 3D content and interfaces but faces a challenge in balancing computing power and wearability  —  Augmented and virtual reality have mostly been dead ends so far.  How Apple's vision could succeed where others have failed.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Starting July, NYC will enforce a law requiring firms using AI in hiring to notify candidates of its use and have independent auditors check for bias annually  —  New York City's pioneering, focused approach sets rules on how companies use the technology in work force decisions.
Platformer:
Sources: over the past several months, Elon Musk has cut the Twitter Spaces team, which once numbered as many as 100 employees, down to roughly three people

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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:
A federal judge rules that two statutes Marco Rubio used to try to deport legal immigrants for their speech violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutional

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The firings of three Stars and Stripes journalists are on hold until September 4, when a judge set an injunction hearing to pause the firings during litigation

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
SiriusXM will drop Howard Stern's Howard 101 channel while keeping Howard 100 as part of a programming shuffle to make room for Audacy sports radio stations

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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
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María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Brazilian lawmakers file a complaint against Google for letting Google Play users download Slavery Simulator from April 20 to May 24 before taking the game down

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Associated Press:
AGs from Washington, DC and 48 US states sue Avid Telecom and its owner, accusing the company of making 7.5B+ robocalls to people on the Do Not Call Registry
Financial Times:
The popularity of the H100, which offers at least 3x better performance than the A100, with Big Tech, OpenAI, and others pushes Nvidia's market cap toward $1T
Jeff Burt / The Register:
Microsoft makes Azure Linux, an open-source Azure Kubernetes Service container host OS, generally available, after offering a public preview since October 2022
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