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Safe Superintelligence Inc.:
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence, an American company “with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence”  —  Superintelligence is within reach.  Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:
Ilya Sutskever discloses his plans for Safe Superintelligence, says “we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety’”, and more  —  OpenAI's co-founder discloses his plans to continue his work at a new research lab focused on artificial general intelligence.
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
As Nvidia passes Microsoft's market cap, John Chambers, who was Cisco's CEO when Cisco passed Microsoft in the dot-com boom, says the situation now is different
The Information:
Sources detail how Jensen Huang and Nvidia are guarding against slowing chip sales, including offering more cloud services and designing custom server racks
Wired:
Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites  —  A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
CDK Global, which provides SaaS tools for over 15,000 car dealerships in North America, shuts down most of its systems following a cyberattack  —  Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems …
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA opens a merger inquiry into HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks, setting an August 14 deadline to decide on opening a full investigation  —  - UK watchdog will decide if deal poses any competition concerns
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Framework partners with DeepComputing to build a RISC-V mainboard for its Laptop 13, set to become one of the first RISC-V laptops; price and release are TBC  —  What if your laptop didn't need a processor from an established brand like Intel or AMD?  What if it didn't even rely on proprietary paid architectures like Arm and x86?
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
At Augmented World Expo, Palmer Luckey says he's building a new headset “driven by military requirements” that will also be used for “non-military stuff”  —  Luckey also mentioned “adult entertainment” could be the most promising VR hardware niche for a small company, since mainstream companies won't touch it.
Adam Zewe / MIT News:
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77  —  The dedicated teacher and academic leader transformed research in computer architectures, parallel computing, and digital design, enabling faster and more efficient computation.
Ben Lang / Road to VR:
VR game studio Another Axiom says Gorilla Tag passed $100M in revenue since its early 2021 launch, one of the most successful VR games ever, and has 3M MAUs  —  VR studio Another Axiom today announced that its breakout title, Gorilla Tag, has surpassed $100 million in revenue.
Wall Street Journal:
On its Korean website, Samsung says its new Snapdragon-powered Galaxy Book 4 Edge is not compatible with or cannot install some Adobe apps, Fortnite, and more  —  Popular games, other software are found incompatible with model using Microsoft Windows and Qualcomm chip
More: PCMag, SamMobile, and Windows Central
Threads: @kylealden and @kylealden
Mike Masnick / The Daily Beast:
The US surgeon general's call for social media warning labels seems to ignore evidence and may feed into a moral panic, similar to prior panics over video games  —  SCREEN BURN  —  Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy is wrong about the harmful effects of social media on kids …
Lara Korte / Politico:
Snap agrees to a $15M settlement with California after a three-year probe into employees' allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment  —  Women who worked for the company in the last decade may be eligible for compensation.  —  SACRAMENTO, California …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans to open two permanent in-person experience venues, in Dallas and near Philadelphia, in 2025, a continuation of its previous pop-ups  —  They're not exactly theme parks, but the new Netflix Houses — to open next year in King of Prussia, Pa., and Dallas — will feature a wide array …

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Rob Bonta / Deadline:
California AG Rob Bonta says AGs' antitrust case is on antitrust grounds, not politics, and Paramount is “spearheading” a PR campaign to spin a false narrative

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Netflix closes its 2026 upfront negotiations, nearly doubling its ad commitments, in line with expectations; its ad tier had 250M+ monthly active viewers in May

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
More than 800 unionized USA Today staffers call on the company to dissolve its recently announced partnership with Palantir, citing “significant ethical issues”

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Laura Kipnis / Wired:
A look at Rebind, a startup that turns Margaret Atwood's and other authors' voices into AI reading companions, and an interview with CEO John Dubuque

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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers “privacy-preserving” ad tools, and how Anonym might interact with a user base that tends to block ads
Matt Burgess / Wired:
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions
Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt:
Consensys says the US SEC is “closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0” and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions”
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:
The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD is working with police and a host provider to investigate a claim that company data was stolen, after a BreachForums user said they breached AMD's systems
Reuters:
The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
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