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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.
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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 …
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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| 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
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| Usama Jawad / XDA Developers: |
Microsoft is removing the Custom GPT Builder feature from the consumer version of Copilot Pro on July 10, just three months after launching the feature — Microsoft has decided to retire GPT Builder in Copilot Pro for consumers, just three months after it began rolling out the service broadly.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Dutch agencies: 20K+ FortiGate systems were hacked in a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign in 2022 and 2023, at least two months before FortiGate noted the flaw — The Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) warned today that the impact of a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign unveiled earlier …
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| 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 … | 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.| Reuters: |
Brazil's government hires OpenAI to expedite the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits using AI, providing insights to the solicitor general's office — Brazil's government is hiring OpenAI to expedite the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits using artificial intelligence … | 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, Financial Express, X, Benzinga, Social Media Today, Quartz, and Gizmodo
| Josh Tyrangiel / Washington Post: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on how AI will help users “save time”, sticking to Apple's values, the Apple Intelligence name, hallucinations, OpenAI, journalism, and more — In an interview, Tim Cook explains how Apple's new AI will enhance your work and life, with guardrails.
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| Zachery Eanes / Axios: |
Raleigh, NC-based Relay, which makes walkie-talkies that can provide real-time location data, do live translation, and more, raised a $35M Series B led by G2 — - The tool has proven useful in fields like hospitality, with hotel workers using them between floors, as well as in health care, education and manufacturing, Chuang said.| Charles Gorrivan / Bloomberg: |
Rubrik reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $187.3M, above $171.5M est., and ARR up 46% YoY to $856.1M, in the cybersecurity company's inaugural post-IPO earnings — - Rubrik's revenue and subscription revenue both beat forecasts — Firm went public at a volatile time for cybersecurity firms
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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.| Reuters: |
Four Indian retailer associations representing 90K grocery shops say monthly sales are dropping by 10% to 60% for some due to the rise of quick commerce apps — In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
“Tap-to-earn” games like Hamster Kombat, a mini-app with more than 31M followers on Telegram, could become the defining trend of the current crypto bull market — It's all a game — “Tap-to-earn” is the latest gaming craze on messaging platform Telegram.| 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.| The Information: |
Sources: US-based AI startups Opus Clip and HeyGen, founded by China-born entrepreneurs, are scrambling to sever China ties by relocating China-based engineers — Among the hundreds of American artificial intelligence startups launched in the last few years, those founded … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Apple says its Private Cloud Compute for AI processing uses servers with Apple silicon, and “independent experts can inspect the code” that runs on its servers — And publicly reviewable server code means experts can “verify this privacy promise.”
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