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| Verne Kopytoff / Fortune: |
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati responded to Elon Musk's denouncement of Apple's OpenAI deal, saying OpenAI cares deeply about user privacy and security — A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
X says the platform will make Likes private for everyone this week, meaning users will no longer be able to see who liked someone else's post — Likes on the website will no longer cause PR crises for public figures. — Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform …
More: The Verge, Business Standard, PhoneArena, Mashable, WinBuzzer, Silicon Republic, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, GSMArena.com, Neowin, Social Media Today, Pocket-lint, Financial Express, Benzinga, International Business Times, X, The i Paper, Quartz, and Gizmodo
X: @elonmusk, @xeng, @andr6wmale, @topherflorence, @dwaldenwrites, @q_review, @_cckirby, @frict, @xdevelopers, @torriangray, @mad_max_997, @mrsslrss, @srirachachau, @merrittk, @aalong64, @quantian1, @alecrobbins, @skyera1n, and @castletongreene
Forums: r/technews, r/Fauxmoi, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Elon Musk withdraws his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman, filed in California in February 2024 over breach of contract and fiduciary duty — Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company's co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
More: Reuters, The Verge, CNN, Wall Street Journal, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Hardware, Dexerto, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Hindu, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, Financial Express, Proactive, Business Insider, The Guardian, CoinGape, Silicon UK, MEDIANAMA, Silicon Republic, MSPoweruser, The Crypto Times, Blockonomi, Mashable, Coinspeaker, The Rundown AI, Business Today, Bloomberg, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Washington Post, Financial Times, COINOTAG NEWS, Decrypt, Tech Xplore, New York Times, Axios, Silicon Valley Business …, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg Law, The Hollywood Reporter, NewsBytes, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Newser
Threads: @crumbler. X: @elonmusk, @rmac18, @lynnmdoan, @apollozac, @meghanbobrowsky, and @eriqgardner
Forums: Hacker News, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/TheAllinPodcasts, r/singularity, r/news, r/musked, r/RealTesla, and r/OpenAI
| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Apple shares closed up 7.3% at $207.15 in their biggest one-day jump since November 2022, giving the company a $3.18T market cap, just under Microsoft's $3.22T — - The return to all-time high comes after Monday conference — Shares have underperformed most other big tech names this year
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MarketWatch, Silicon Republic, Benzinga, Investing.com, Reuters, The Information, Irish Examiner, Axios, CNBC, Benzinga, Benzinga, The Economic Times, and BNN Bloomberg
X: @benthompson, @salexashenko, @neilcybart, @rachelmetz, @seyitaylor, @benbajarin, @stevesi, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @munster_gene. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
IBM and Xerox PARC engineer Lynn Conway, who helped shape the way chips are designed and undertook a gender transition in 1968, died last weekend at age 86 — - In the 1970s, Conway helped author “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a seminal book in the field of chip design that became …
More: Michigan Engineering News, Los Angeles Times, (en)gender, and Andrea James
Threads: @dana.rasmussen.co, @nixcraft, @gwendoesscience, @jokestress, @fallon_fox, and @metamutator
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is combining its AI-focused research centers in Toronto and Mountain View to improve operations; ex-Apple exec Murat Akbacak will run the group — - Company is combining Toronto and California research centers — Apple's Murat Akbacak will be leading the new division
More: PYMNTS.com, SamMobile, HotHardware, Benzinga, Android Headlines, Sammy Fans, and NewsBytes
X: @markgurman and @yoolimleenews
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube plans to roll out its Thumbnail Test & Compare tool to all creators “in the coming weeks”, letting them test video thumbnails “evenly” across audiences — YouTube is preparing to roll out a new thumbnail testing feature to creators, which means you'll … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
A summary of the apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2024, like 1Password and LastPass, call recording and transcription apps, and the Newji custom emoji app — Apple has been on a spree of late, announcing a host of new features for its various devices earlier this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, Nieman Lab, How-To Geek, and Digital Trends
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible — It only works for macOS 15 guests on macOS 15 hosts, but it's a big improvement. — We've written before about Apple's handy …
More: Apple Developer, Apple Developer Documentation, TechRadar, iMore, and MacRumors
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @chockenberry@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/MacOSBeta, r/mac, and Ars OpenForum
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo issues a software update to its 672 vehicles after one collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix on May 21, marking Waymo's second recall ever — Waymo is issuing a voluntary software recall after one of its driverless vehicles collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, last month, the company said.| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears over China using Middle Eastern countries to overcome US sanctions on AI chips are “valid” — But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
China's Ministry of Commerce issues a policy for expanding the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry and to promote the construction of offshore warehouses — Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad — China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling …
More: Reuters and PYMNTS.com
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: MediaTek is designing an Arm-based chip for Windows laptops, slated to launch late in 2025 after Qualcomm's exclusive deal expires — Taiwanese chip design giant MediaTek (2454.TW) is developing an Arm-based personal computer chip that will run Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Windows operating system … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on co-authoring the “Attention is all you need” paper at Google, focusing on enterprise, whether there's an AI bubble, and more — Enterprise is the pathway to profit, Gomez says, but maybe don't ask it to do medicine quite yet.| Benjamin Hoffman / New York Times: |
How some people are using the term “slop” as a descriptor for low-grade AI material, after emerging in reaction to the release of AI art generators in 2022 — A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material. — You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence.| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok: most see news content, but fewer say news is why they are on the platforms, except for X — X remains more of a news destination than other sites, but the vast majority of users on all four are seeing news-related content| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds — The microblogging platform — India's first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
More: Business Today and WeeTracker
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Jingna Zhang, the founder of anti-AI social platform Cara, about its focus on artists, crossing 900K users, the positives of generative AI, and more — Artists are fleeing Meta's platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang's Cara promises protection …
More: Silicon Republic, Business Insider, and TechIssuesToday.com
X: @waterslicer, @neilturkewitz, and @knibbs
| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
GameStop raised ~$2.14B from a share sale program capitalizing on a stock rally fueled by Keith Gill's YouTube return, selling 75M shares for ~$28.49 on average — - Company has raised more than $3 billion over the past month — Stock staged a mid-afternoon rally on Tuesday as volume rose
More: Reuters, Fortune, Barron's Online, CNBC, Proactive, Blockonomi, BBC, and Benzinga
| Diana Li / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Michael Dell plans to sell 10M Dell shares worth $1.3B, after selling $1.6B in shares earlier in 2024; Dell sold $1.7B in 1999 before the bubble burst — - Dell filed to sell 10 million shares now worth $1.3 billion — His hardware company surged this year on AI optimism| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Databricks launches AI/BI, a visualization tool to let users type questions about their data to build charts and graphs, competing with Microsoft and Salesforce — - New business tool integrates generative AI for faster results — Company last year acquired a maker of large language models
More: TechCrunch, Constellation Research, and Databricks
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