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Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make go live worldwide” on July 24 — Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu …
Source: @elonmusk and @elonmusk
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Why the Vision Pro app store may be more successful than the Apple Watch or Apple TV app stores, despite the headset's small user base for the first few years — Third-party apps will be crucial to the success of the Vision Pro, but the pricey and niche nature of the device means that developers may not quickly flock to it.
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Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …. Twitter: @markgurman, @daveleebbg, @markgurman, @stevemoser, @vadimyuryev, @appleinsider, and @scobleizer
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: |
Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley's magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end — In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time …
More: SFist. LinkedIn: Erika Hall and Alan Lasky
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs — Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models. But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant
Twitter: @madhumita29, @fttechnews, @jmateosgarcia, @jmateosgarcia, @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @madhumita29, and @gavinsbaker. Forums: Hacker News
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An analysis of the potential impact of the eight AI commitments to the White House made by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection — Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they'll do with their technology. Our columnist sizes up their potential impact.
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Twitter: @mmitchell_ai, @cannellelily, @timrudner, @jamesoliverinla, @justinhendrix, and @samgregory
| Katherine Alejandra Cross / Wired: |
Reddit and Bluesky are contrasting examples on how not to moderate, one centralizing in the worst way possible and the other decentralizing catastrophically — Moderating a site isn't easy—just ask Elon. But Bluesky and Reddit are contrasting examples of how not to do it.
More: Social Media Today and ZDNet
Bluesky: @haskell.bsky.social, @scaerietale.bsky.social, @bungdan.bsky.social, @lilithsaintcrow.bsky.social, @naptime.theolive.garden, @iluffhomer.bsky.social, @pandaexplosion.bsky.social, @davidgerard.co.uk, and @arjun.bsky.social
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, and @Quinnae_Moon@wandering.shop
Twitter: @jgownder and @aliafonzy43
| Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the Boston Fed's Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 amid opposition from anti-CBDC legislators — Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just as we've learned the basics of how one might work.
More: Financial Times and CoinDesk
| Ben Smith / Semafor: |
Sources: IAC, News Corp, the NYT, and other publishers are forming a coalition to push for AI laws and lead a lawsuit against AI firms who trained on their data — Barry Diller fired publishers' opening shot at artificial intelligence platforms in a Semafor interview this April … | Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A profile of Munich-based Helsing, whose battlefield AI distills data from weapons systems and sensors like infrared and sonar into a visualization in real time — Helsing AI is building an operating system for warfare and says it'll only ever sell to democracies. — On the screen in front of me is a mountain range.
Twitter: @morganmeaker, @ieet, @occamstazer, and @wired
| Wall Street Journal: |
Nearly 200 US school districts have joined lawsuits against Meta, ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet, alleging their apps cause disciplinary and mental health issues — Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube seek to dismiss federal suits, citing internet liability shield
Twitter: @joshconstine, @zg4ever, and @nickgillespie
| Riho Nagao / Nikkei Asia: |
Japan adds advanced chipmaking equipment to its export control list, a move that aligns the country with US curbs meant to keep chip tech out of China's hands — Tokyo aligns with Washington to keep most advanced technology out of China's hands — Japan now requires export licenses for semiconductor-manufacturing equipment.
More: Japan Today
| Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: |
Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads of ByteDance's social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app was in the US App Store's top 10 in March — Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers over ordinary people.
More: The Economic Times. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @kiefer_nandez, @caiweic, @mattnavarra, @restofworld, @anupkaphle, and @restofworld
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