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Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft — The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
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Source and documents: the US FTC sent civil subpoenas to Microsoft and Inflection AI seeking information about how and why they negotiated their partnership — Commission has sent subpoenas to tech giant and startup, asking whether their partnership evaded required government review| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances — The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why? It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: as the Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10K orders by early April, Humane started talking to HP about selling itself for $1B+; Humane has raised $240M — Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via “automated and manual methods” to improve its services and software — Adobe has been one of the leading legacy enterprise software companies to embrace generative AI and make it accessible …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google partners with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to let users contact 911 via RCS, from December and initially only in Google Messages — Google said today it is partnering with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to enable users to contact 911 through RCS (Rich Messaging Service).
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data — ‘Building a product is a bit like making art,’ said founder Jingna Zhang — Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies …
More: noyb, Washington Post, TNW, The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, BBC, and 9to5Mac
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a dedicated Passwords app in iOS 18 and macOS 15, powered by the iCloud Keychain; Apple will let users import passwords from rival services — Apple Inc. will introduce a new homegrown app next week called Passwords, aiming to make it easier for customers to log …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iClarified, PhoneArena, and Digital Trends
| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
A US federal court finds Mike Lynch not guilty of criminal charges that he duped HP into buying Autonomy for $11B in 2011; he lost a UK civil trial in 2022 — - Stunning victory at criminal trial follows loss in civil case — He's complained for years that he was scapegoated over merger| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to reach out after getting 7,000+ decryption keys to recover data for free; police seized 2,500+ keys in February 2024 — The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained … | Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how Apple fell behind in the AI race: its AI team failing to collaborate with product teams, a lack of access to computing resources, and more — For those who saw them, the demonstrations inside Apple increase earlier this decade of a revamped Siri offered a showcase …
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| Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand — Move comes a month after SEC notice of a potential lawsuit over the brokerage's crypto offerings
More: Robinhood Markets, Inc., CoinDesk, FinSMEs, Reuters, GovInfoSecurity.com, The Daily Hodl, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, BTC Times, Proactiveinvestors UK, The Information, The Crypto Basic, CryptoSlate, The Block, Crowdfund Insider, Watcher Guru, Quartz, Cryptopolitan, Coinpedia Fintech News, Proactive, Forkast, Fortune, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, The Crypto Times, PYMNTS.com, Milk Road, TechCrunch, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, NFTgators, Cryptonews, Axios, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, and Bitcoin Insider
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance has been renting Nvidia's GPUs from Oracle to bypass US sanctions; China Telecom and other Chinese companies also tried to use the loophole — The U.S. government forbids Nvidia from selling some of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips to customers in China.| Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
Core Scientific rejects CoreWeave's $5.75-per-share buyout offer from June 4, worth $1B+, saying the deal significantly undervalues the company — The board of Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's offer to buy the miner for $5.75 per share. — Core Scientific (CORZ) … | Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans WhatsApp features, including an AI-powered assistant for businesses in India and Singapore, and AI tools to create ads in English-speaking markets — - Assistant lets businesses chat with customers using AI — New features will roll out first in India and Singapore| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI releases a research paper by its recently disbanded “superalignment” team on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models — Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method … | Forbes: |
A look at Eric Schmidt's White Stork, which sources say has poached employees from Apple, SpaceX, Google, and others to build AI-enabled military drones — With a widening roster of high profile talent poached from Apple, SpaceX and Google, the former Google CEO is piloting his drones in Menlo Park and Ukraine.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out its Gemini-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM to 200+ new countries, including Brazil and India, and adds Slides and web URLs as sources — Google on Thursday said it is rolling out NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking assistant, to over 200 new countries …
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Financial Express, Phandroid, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, Business Today, and ZDNet. LinkedIn: Debbie W.
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Discord adds new monetization features for developers and plans to halve the 30% platform fee to 15% for their first $1M in cumulative gross sales — Discord is introducing new tools and monetization features that aim to make it easier for app developers to make money by selling premium perks via storefronts on the platform.| Bloomberg: |
eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of “unacceptably high” transaction fees, from August 17 — - Online marketplace calls Amex fees ‘unacceptably high’ — Change to take effect Aug. 17; Amex defends its fees
More: eBay Newsroom, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Payments Dive, Associated Press, and Daring Fireball
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics — ASML makes some of the most advanced chip-making machines. It must balance Western demands to curb China's access while keeping a foothold in a key market.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kraken seeks to raise $100M+ in a pre-IPO round; the crypto exchange's previous attempts to go public were thwarted in part by a dispute with the SEC — - Crypto exchange has talked about doing IPO for several years — Closely held exchange is engaged in a dispute with the SEC
More: The Block, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, Milk Road, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, and Axios
X: @ldrogen, @web3quant, and @satoshiflipper
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
How Suicide Squad became the biggest video game flop of 2024 so far, including a tumultuous development and delayed release; WBD took a $200M loss on the game — After seven years of tumultuous development, Warner Bros. took a $200 million loss on the Rocksteady game
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X: @jasonschreier, @jadel4w, @ethangach, @svegvari, @xpatriciah, and @devteaml
Forums: r/gaming, r/PS5, r/kindafunny, r/Games, r/xbox, r/SuicideSquadGaming, r/DCcomics, and r/pcgaming
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon acquires Indian video streaming service MX Player's key assets from Times Internet, a source says valuing MX at <$100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019 — Amazon has agreed to acquire key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet … Sponsor Posts
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