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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

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Bloomberg:

China is racing the US in AI, but demos show Chinese companies have far to go; Preqin: US AI investments were $26.6B in the year to mid-June, vs. China's $4B

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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.

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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

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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

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New York Times:

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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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 …

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Bloomberg:

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Jack Schickler / CoinDesk:

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 …

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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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Bloomberg:

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.

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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 …

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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.

More: 9to5Mac and Fortune

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