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Mike Corder / Associated Press:
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains  —  Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …
The Information:
Sources: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella recently met to discuss Microsoft's concerns about how OpenAI's deal with Apple might affect Microsoft's product ambitions  —  When OpenAI's board of directors ousted Sam Altman as CEO last year, it looked like a shocking derailment of a fast-rising career.
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
OpenAI disrupted five influence operations in the past three months that accessed its products to covertly manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes  —  Covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Lumen details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; the ISP seems to be Windstream  —  An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.  —  One day last October …
Bloomberg:
Source: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are discussing crypto policy, as Trump increasingly highlights bitcoin and other digital assets as a way to reach new voters  —  - Trump campaign discusses having Musk speak at convention  — Billionaires talk about Musk business interests, including EVs
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
The FAA approves Amazon's Prime Air program to fly drones beyond a pilot's line of sight, letting Amazon expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas  —  - Amazon is the latest company to gain approval from the FAA  — Company will integrate drones into same-day delivery network
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Meta begins rolling out TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads globally, following a test that started earlier this month  —  Threads is widely rolling out a desktop site redesign that lets you customize your homepage with a series of feeds, similar to TweetDeck.
Reuters:
Sources: TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its US users that may result in a version that operates independently of ByteDance  —  TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users that may result in a version …
More: Axios
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google rolls out new features to Android, including editing sent messages in Google Messages, improvements to instant hotspot, a Google Home widget, and more  —  Google is releasing seven new updates and features to make Android devices and services more useful.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Hands-on with Fire TV's Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to be more conversational, but the suggestions are largely disappointing  —  Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job.  Recommendations from friends, blog posts …
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Anthropic releases “tool use” for Claude, letting users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic's Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google's Vertex AI  —  Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant …
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Google and Magic Leap partner to build immersive experiences that blend the physical and digital worlds, but offer few details; Google is a Magic Leap investor  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap are forming a strategic technology partnership and working …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Modular laptop maker Framework unveils a $269 drop-in 120Hz display, improved $39 webcam, and swappable mainboard to add Intel Core Ultra chips to its laptops  —  I know, I absolutely stuffed this story's headline — but I'm just so excited to see the future of modular computing unfolding before my eyes.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
On X, Paul Graham says claims about YC firing Sam Altman are “not true”, and Altman left because he wanted to work full-time on OpenAI as its CEO  —  In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims …
Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images  —  The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Babylon, which builds infrastructure to let proof-of-stake systems obtain staking capital from bitcoin, raised $70M led by Paradigm, after raising $18M in 2023  —  - The Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raised $70 million in fresh financing led by Paradigm.
Elizabeth Napolitano / The Block:
Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries  —  - Mastercard is launching a peer-to-peer network for sending and receiving digital assets across borders.
Hope King / Axios:
Amazon expands its Grubhub partnership to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon's app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ a permanent Prime perk  —  - Any Amazon customer can search for “Grubhub” in the product search bar of Amazon's app to order, track and manage their food, like they would through the Grubhub app.
The Information:
Sources: the US is probing whether chip-equipment maker Ronda Korea has been selling parts using tech made by US' Lam Research to sanctioned Chinese companies  —  The U.S. Commerce Department is probing whether a South Korean maker of parts for machines that produce semiconductors has been selling …

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: WaPo's top standards editor decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, announced this week for users of its mobile app

Axios:
Sources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights

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Billy Perrigo / TIME:
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O'Reilly Media:
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Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and others, some of which used AI to generate disinformation
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Verizon and satellite provider AST SpaceMobile partner to provide space-based broadband direct to phones; Verizon committed $65M in prepayments and $35m in debt
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
The US Treasury says NFTs are “highly susceptible to use in fraud and scams” and NFT platforms lack controls to combat money laundering and sanctions evasion
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools
Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN:
A US federal court awards Activision $14.46M+ in its 2022 civil lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of violating the DMCA by selling Call of Duty cheating software
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 pages of leaked Search documents detailing data the company collects, which may be used in its ranking algorithm
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