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Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even ban the 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| Bloomberg: |
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.| Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: |
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UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which 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.
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| 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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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and stolen the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Progress' MOVEit — The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached. — The dramatic fallout continues … | Bloomberg: |
An interview with senior Binance executive Yi He, who has been out of the global spotlight and has children with CZ, on regulators, compliance, Okcoin, and more — One senior Binance executive has managed to stay out of the global spotlight over the past six years and counting …
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The EU Commission publishes its digital euro legislative plans, including privacy and financial stability safeguards; some backers question the CBDC's benefits — Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.” — BRUSSELS, Belgium … | Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
How Shein's Guangzhou factory influencer tour, likely meant to foster goodwill and improve the company's image before a rumored IPO, backfired spectacularly — In recent days, Chinese fast fashion giant Shein took a handful of influencers on a tour of its Guangzhou factory.
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A look at Anonymous Sudan, a self-described hacktivist group that researchers tied to Russia and that has targeted Microsoft, Sweden, Israel, the US, and others — A hacking group responsible for a series of outages at Microsoft Corp. earlier this month had spent the previous months attacking targets … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside of the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France — ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday.| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT for iOS with Browse with Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, answering questions using information beyond ChatGPT's original training data — ChatGPT on mobile can now surf the web. But only via Bing. — Today, OpenAI announced that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus … | Bloomberg: |
Y Combinator received a record 24K applications for its latest cohort and accepted less than 1%, of which ~35% are AI-focused 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.
More: Business Post and Tech in Asia
| Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal: |
MLB partners with Uplift Labs, which uses AI and images captured by two iPhone cameras to detect players' flaws, forecast their potential, and flag injury risk — The most important thing a baseball team can do ahead of the amateur draft is predict future success for developing young ballplayers.Sponsor Posts
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