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The SEC, CFTC, and FTC sue ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and the company over alleged fraud and more; Mashinsky was arrested and charged with six counts — Alex Mashinsky, the former chief executive officer of Celsius Network Ltd., was accused by prosecutors of orchestrating a yearslong scheme …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Google updates Bard with support for 43 more languages, including Arabic, and releases the chatbot in Europe and Brazil after adding new privacy features — Latest version to also include a privacy hub for all users — Google is betting a new version of its artificial-intelligence chatbot will say hallo …
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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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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Document: the FTC sends OpenAI a 20-page demand for records on the risks of its AI models and a March 2023 security incident over payment-related information — The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date
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In June, the US State Department told Microsoft that its emails in Azure were hacked; attackers stole a Microsoft key and hacked ~25 organizations' emails — The State Department discovered the Microsoft vulnerability, which affected unclassified government systems, last month
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK, starting with Revolut and Tyl by NatWest as the first platforms, following the US, Australia, and Taiwan — Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in the United Kingdom, allowing independent sellers, small merchants …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple updates macOS Sonoma to bring iCloud Keychain passwords to non-Safari browsers for the first time, expanding on a Chrome extension — The macOS Sonoma update that is in testing allows Mac owners who opt to use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or another browser to use Apple's Password Manager for filling passwords.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sony plans to spend ~$2.13B on gaming R&D for the FY ending March 2024, accounting for ~40% of its total R&D expenditure and surpassing electronics and chips — Japan electronics giant to ramp up live-game titles to catch up to Microsoft — Sony is aiming for 60% of game development costs …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta plans to release a commercial version of LLaMA imminently and will 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 a commercial version …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Telly begins shipping its free, ad-supported, dual-screen TV as part of its “public beta program”; users must submit demographic info, viewing habits, and more — Start-up says it received more than 250,000 sign-ups from U.S. consumers … The start-up, which plans to ship … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
The AP signs a two-year deal with OpenAI, under which the AP will get access to OpenAI tech and license some of its archive dating back to 1985 for AI training — The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology.| Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
A writer details using AI startup Writer's LLM to generate text in his writing style and says most “insights” that the tool produced felt hollow or approximated — A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing.
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| Adam Crafton / The Athletic: |
How Apple expanded into sports since 2022, starting with the MLB, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him — In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI debuts Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool that uses the Stable Diffusion model to generate “visually pleasing” artistic renditions, on ClipDrop — Stability AI, the startup behind the image-generating model Stable Diffusion, is launching a new service that turns sketches into images.| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
UNESCO calls for regulation of AI-based neurotechnology; research shows private investments in Neuralink and others reached $7.3B in 2020, up ~20x since 2010 — Manipulation of brain signals advancing so fast it threatens human rights, warns UN body — Neurotechnology is advancing so fast … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Nothing Phone (2) review: neat light strips, useful always-on display, and four-year software support, but only splash resistant and not certified on Verizon — Form, function, and a good midrange phone. … The Nothing Phone 2 is better than the Phone 1 in a lot of small ways.
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| 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.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Twitter asks a US federal court to terminate an FTC order that puts restrictions on its data security practices and to stay a deposition of Elon Musk — The company asked the federal court to terminate an order with the agency hours before Chair Lina Khan testified on Capitol Hill
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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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