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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features  —  Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US.  The app will be called Threads …
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Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:
An APK teardown of Instagram's Threads, uploaded to Google Play ahead of the app's launch, reveals the threads.net website and details on how Threads will work  —  Ahead of the app's launch later this week, Meta has launched a landing page for its Twitter competitor, “Threads,” counting down to the service's launch.
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
For Europeans, CJEU's Meta ruling could potentially close this chapter on surveillance capitalism, which relies on denying users a free choice over its tracking
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
A judge issues an injunction blocking key Biden admin officials from contacting social media companies, in a case brought by MO and LA AGs over vaccine posts  —  The Trump-appointed judge's move could upend years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.
David Pierce / The Verge:
The social web is changing: Twitter set up limits, Reddit alienated its users, TikTok could get banned, and Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform  —  An era of the internet is ending, and we're watching it happen practically in real time.  Twitter has been on a steep …
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Twitter claims advanced notice about rate limiting would have allowed bad actors to evade detection and says rate limiting had a “minimal” effect on advertising  —  The company claims bad actors could otherwise have changed their strategies.  —  Twitter has been even more of a mess …
Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central:
OpenAI temporarily pulls its Browse with Bing beta feature from ChatGPT Plus after users found that requesting a URL's full text let them bypass some paywalls  —  ChatGPT aided users aiming to bypass paywalls, but OpenAI put a stop to it.  —  What you need to know
Financial Times:
South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are assessing the fallout from China's limits on chipmaking chemicals gallium and germanium; Japan imported $203.2M worth in 2022  —  Beijing's move to impose restrictions follows escalating US controls on technology  —  Trade officials were assessing the fallout …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US plans to require cloud companies like AWS and Microsoft to get permission before offering services that use advanced AI chips to Chinese clients
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A likely fake 8-month-old Twitter account with a Blue check and 130K followers, suspended after WaPo informed Twitter, is a case study in political rage baiting  —  The Erica Marsh account shows how ‘rage baiting’ remains a powerful way to win attention and score political points
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1), tweaked LEDs on the back, a curved glass rear design, and more  —  Carl Pei's Nothing is just a week or two away from the full launch, and after showing off the camera earlier today, a new video shows off the Nothing Phone (2) in full.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Thierry Breton: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Samsung, and ByteDance said they meet the EU's “gatekeeper” criteria of 45M+ MAUs and a €75B+ market cap  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) …

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CNN:
Sources: Pete Hegseth pushed for two F-15 crew members rescued from Iran to join a 60 Minutes story; Bari Weiss lobbied Hegseth to give CBS exclusive access

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Leaked report: Paramount leaving California “would result in losses of 2,750 and 5,550 job-years”, and economic losses between $1.01B-$2.03B for the state

Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico crosses 8M views on YouTube, with interview clips going viral on Instagram and Facebook

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Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
How SoftBank is playing catch-up despite focusing on AI since 2018; PitchBook says the firm invested in just one of the 26 generative AI startups valued at $1B+
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Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk:
Cameron Winklevoss makes a $1.465B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis' bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert does not agree
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Google updates its privacy policy to say the company may use “publicly available information” to train its AI models and build products like Translate and Bard
Bloomberg:
BlackRock refiles for its spot bitcoin ETF through Nasdaq, saying Coinbase will provide market surveillance to address the US SEC's insufficient info objection
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