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Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy — Software company will add the latest installment of the hit videogame series to its Game Pass subscription service at launch this fall
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OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit; RDDT is up 12%+ — Reddit (RDDT.N) has partnered with OpenAI to bring the social media platform's content to ChatGPT, the companies said on Thursday.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a higher energy density battery and a stainless steel battery case that helps Apple comply with EU rules about replaceability — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before …
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X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status — The social network formerly known as Twitter has switched over to X.com. … The social network formerly known as Twitter … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users — The news from OpenAI this week continues: today, the company announced it has updated its signature large language model (LLM) chatbot ChatGPT …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU warns Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under DSA after failing to provide risk info about its generative AI tools — The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc's online governance regime …
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| Matthew Hutson / Wired: |
A look at Maven, a new social network backed by Ev Williams, Sam Altman, and others, where users follow interests and topics instead of accounts — Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.
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| Kiuyan Wong / Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong launches a pilot program enabling digital yuan payments through major Chinese banks, first deployment of China's currency beyond the mainland — - The launch is the first to take place beyond mainland China — China is pushing to grow the yuan's share of global payments| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups — The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.| Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Germany is nearing a decision to strip Huawei and ZTE components from the country's 5G core network by 2026 for national security reasons — - Plan bans Chinese critical components in core network by 2026 — Interior, foreign and economy ministries back the proposal| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI, which builds LLMs for businesses, for over $1B; report: Reka was valued at ~$300M in a 2023 funding round — - Software company's venture arm has invested in the AI startup — Reka was started in 2022 by researchers from Google, Meta| Wall Street Journal: |
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave raised $7.5B in debt financing, two weeks after raising $1.1B equity funding at a $19B valuation; it raised $2.3B in debt in 2023 — Deal is one of the largest-ever private debt financings — CoreWeave, an artificial-intelligence cloud-computing startup backed by Nvidia …
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