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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more — Elon Musk announced a new AI company today, xAI. all the team members listed on the website appear to be men.
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Threads: @film_girl, @chris, and @joannastern
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| The Verge: |
The FTC files to appeal a US court ruling that cleared the way for Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard; the existing TRO expires at 11:59pm PT on July 14 — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is appealing a recent US federal court order that cleared the way for Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard.
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| Reuters: |
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Xbox tests reactive voice chat moderation, letting Xbox Insiders report 60-second audio clips of inappropriate voice messages for the Xbox safety team to review — Rolling out today to Xbox Insiders, the new reporting feature will allow players to capture and submit 60-second audio clips …
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| Toby Bochan / CoinDesk: |
In a major policy shift, Google Play now lets developers incorporate tokenized digital assets, such as NFTs, into their Android apps and games — The company is opening up the ability for developers to let users buy, sell or earn digital assets in apps as long as they maintain transparency and adhere to other rules.
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Forums: r/Superstonk and Slashdot
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub launches support for passkeys in public beta, letting users who opt in upgrade from security keys to passkeys, and use those in place of password and 2FA — GitHub announced today the introduction of passwordless authentication support in public beta, allowing users to upgrade from security keys to passkeys.| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
A former Twitter employee files a proposed class action accusing the company of refusing to pay $500M+ in promised severance to the thousands whom Elon Musk cut — Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta says Roblox is coming to Meta's Quest 2, Quest Pro, and Quest 3, starting with an open beta on App Lab “in the coming weeks”, with cross-platform support — / It's launching in open beta in the ‘coming weeks.’ — Roblox will be coming to Meta's Quest VR headsets starting …
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| Colin Lecher / The Markup: |
A congressional investigation led by Senator Elizabeth Warren finds popular tax filing tools “recklessly” sent data, like income, to Meta and Google for years — The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup
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| Washington Post: |
In June, the US State Department told Microsoft that its emails in the company's cloud were hacked; attackers stole a Microsoft key and hacked ~25 orgs' emails — The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month
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| Richard MacManus / The New Stack: |
A look at Meta's plan to adopt ActivityPub for Threads, how ActivityPub suits Meta's goals, and the technical challenges and social pressure facing the company — From a developer point of view, the fact that Meta's Threads app has quickly gone over 100 million sign-ups isn't the most interesting part of this latest Twitter clone.
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Forums: Hacker News and kbin.social
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Sources reveal how contractors audit Bard's answers in subjects ranging from medication doses to state laws, sometimes with deadlines as short as three minutes — Google's Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence.
More: Android Central and Insider
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is poised to release a commercial version of LLaMA imminently and plans to make the AI model more widely available and customizable by companies — Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google are surging ahead in Silicon Valley development race — Meta is poised to release … | Alex W. Palmer / New York Times: |
A look at the US Bureau of Industry and Security, which employs ~350, had a $140M+ budget in 2022, and is a key tool in cutting China off from advanced chips — The Biden administration thinks it can preserve America's technological primacy by cutting China off from advanced computer chips.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds bilingual support to Siri, starting with Indic languages like Hindi and Telugu; Google Assistant got multilingual support in 2018 and Alexa in 2019 — Apple released its first set of public beta versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma on Wednesday.| Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: |
PE firm CapVest agrees to acquire UK-based Kerridge, which provides ERP software to clients globally, from Accel-KKR; sources say the deal is valued at over $1B — Private equity firm CapVest Partners has agreed to acquire UK software provider Kerridge Commercial Systems Ltd.
More: Accel-KKR and Business Wire
| DigiTimes: |
Intel's Habana launched its Gaudi 2 AI processor in China on July 11 to be used by Chinese cloud providers like Inspur, despite the US' export controls — As the US seeks to tighten export controls on AI chips to China, Intel held a press conference in Beijing on the July 11 … Sponsor Posts
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