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Sources: FTX abruptly halted the sale of its $500M stake in AI startup Anthropic; FTX's bankers had reportedly been shopping its Anthropic stake in early June — Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX has abruptly halted the sale of one of its most sought-after assets: a stake in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.
More: Wall Street Journal, The Block, Unchained Crypto, Decrypt, Reuters, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, Forbes, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: |
FTX sues former compliance officer Daniel Friedberg, alleging he was Sam Bankman-Fried's “fixer” who made “hush money” payments to two potential whistleblowers — The lawsuit claims the former compliance officer paid whistleblowers to stop them from exposing the “true fraudulent nature” of the exchange.| Colin Wilhelm / The Block: |
A US judge denies Sam Bankman-Fried's motion to dismiss or sever most of the criminal charges he faces; Bankman-Fried faces 100+ years in prison if convicted — A federal judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's motion to dismiss or sever most of the criminal charges he faces.
| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Adalytics: ~80% of Google's video ad placements on third-party sites violated the company's promised standards between 2020 and 2023; Google disputes the claims — About 80% of Google's video-ad placements on third-party sites violated promised standards, new research shows; Google disputes claims
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even prevent sales of Nvidia's A800 chip without a license — Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking| New York Times: |
UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition to combat shoplifting, something critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes — British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it.| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Report: Google canceled its “Iris” AR glasses project earlier in 2023 to focus on creating AR software platforms to license to headset manufacturers — Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project. — Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites “three people familiar with the matter” …
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| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Apple says the UK should amend its Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, to protect encryption, joining WhatsApp and Signal — Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app adds Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, drawing on information that extends beyond ChatGPT's original training data to answer questions — ChatGPT on mobile can now surf the web. But only via Bing. — Today, OpenAI announced that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
FTC v. Microsoft: an internal Microsoft presentation from June 2022 discussed building on Windows 365 “to enable full Windows ... streamed from the cloud” — Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers.
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
The European Commission publishes its legislative plans to underpin a digital euro, including safeguards for privacy and financial stability — Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.” — BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission published …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and obtained the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a critical zero-day flaw in MOVEit — The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached. — The dramatic fallout continues …
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| Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
How Shein's influencer tour of its Guangzhou factory, aiming to foster goodwill and improve the company's image before a rumored IPO, spectacularly backfired — In recent days, Chinese fast fashion giant Shein took a handful of influencers on a tour of its Guangzhou factory.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Fast Company: |
SCOTUS rules 7-2 that for an alleged cyberstalker to be a “true threat”, a court must prove they recklessly disregarded that their words may be seen as threats — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that in order to find someone guilty of making a “true threat” … | Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal: |
MLB partners with Uplift Labs, which uses AI to detect players' flaws, forecast potential, and flag injury risk based on images captured by two iPhone cameras — The most important thing a baseball team can do ahead of the amateur draft is predict future success for developing young ballplayers.| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok admits to funding the TikTok creators' lawsuit in Montana challenging the state's ban of the app, but says the company is not paying creators directly — The popular video service had deflected questions about its involvement in the creators' lawsuit for more than a month.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU countries and lawmakers reach a provisional agreement on the Data Act, establishing rules on how Big Tech and other firms use EU consumer and corporate data — EU countries and EU lawmakers on Tuesday agreed on rules that govern how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and corporate data …
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| Bloomberg: |
Y Combinator received a record 24K applications for its latest cohort, accepting less than 1%, of which around 35% focus on AI and 50% use AI in their business — More than one-third of the famed startup accelerator Y Combinator's latest batch of companies are focused specifically on artificial intelligence.| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
The Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, which lacks support for external GPUs and is capped to 192GB of RAM, is a tough sell for pros, given the cheaper M2 Ultra Mac Studio — Apple's latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads. But we talked to those professionals …
More: MacStories, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, and BGR
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Carl Pei's Nothing raised $96M led by Highland ahead of its Phone (2) announcement, taking its total funding to $250M; sources put 2022 revenue at $200M — Smartphone sales are in decline as handset makers grapple with saturated markets and a tough consumer economic climate.
More: Business Standard, Silicon Republic, Forbes, Nothing, Android Central, and T3
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the company adding experiences for people aged 17+, its aging users, its social graph, young developers, Robux, and more — Roblox, the virtual world and game platform, has 66 million daily users who spent 14 billion collective hours on it in just Q1 of 2023.Sponsor Posts
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