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Sources: Apple rejected Meta's overtures to integrate Llama into the iPhone months ago, in part because it sees Meta's privacy practices as not stringent enough — - Apple has been looking to forge agreements to use AI chatbots — Report indicated that Apple and Meta are in discussions
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In preliminary findings, the EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over concerns that it gave Teams an “undue advantage” by bundling it with Office — Allegations that software giant is ‘tying’ its video app to Office are the first such case against it in more than a decade| Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge: |
Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2024 on July 16 and July 17 in 24 countries including the US, the UK, and Japan; India will receive a separate event later — As expected, Amazon's annual sales event for Prime subscribers will once again take place in mid-July.
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Sources: US is probing China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom over concerns they are providing Americans' data to Beijing through their US cloud services — The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access … | The Information: |
Sources: Google has been developing a product to create customizable chatbots, which could be modeled on celebrities, and plans to launch it as soon as 2024 — Google wants chatbots that people can hang with—not just pelt with questions. — The search engine giant has been developing …
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| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
A look at the privacy concerns surrounding apps targeting women's health; PitchBook: femtech startups raised almost $4.9B between March 2021 and March 2024 — US 2022 abortion ruling has heightened concerns over the safety of women's healthcare trackers — Fertility and other female … | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon is working on an AI chatbot, codenamed Metis, designed to compete directly with ChatGPT; source: it's tentatively slated for a September launch — - Amazon is working on a new AI service that competes with ChatGPT. — The project is internally codenamed Metis.
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
k-ID, a platform that helps game developers comply with child safety and data privacy regulations, raised a $45M Series A led by a16z and Lightspeed — For an indie developer building a game on their own, compliance with regulations is likely the last thing on their list of priorities …
More: VentureBeat, DealStreetAsia, and Lightspeed Venture Partners
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Etched, which is building Sohu, an inferencing chip that only runs transformer AI models, raised a $120M Series A, bringing its total funding to $125.36M — As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously.
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, VentureBeat, and CNBC
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With an economy hobbled by Western sanctions and inflation, desperate Iranians are flocking to “tap-to-earn” crypto mini apps in Telegram like Hamster Kombat — Cab drivers and bikers tap away furiously on their mobile phones as they wait at red lights in the Iranian capital during an early June heatwave.
More: CCN.com, The Record, Coinspeaker, Decrypt, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, CoinGeek, and Inside Bitcoins
Forums: r/nottheonion, r/CryptoCurrency, and r/Buttcoin
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber Freight will use Aurora's driverless trucks on routes between Dallas and Houston as part of a new long-term deal, following a three-year commercial pilot — Uber's freight hauling business will use Aurora's driverless trucks on routes between Dallas and Houston as part of a new …
More: TechCrunch and FreightWaves
| Reuters: |
EvolutionaryScale releases AI models called ESM3 to create novel proteins and raised $142M in seed funding led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Lux Capital — EvolutionaryScale, an artificial intelligence startup focused on biology, said Tuesday it had raised $142 million in seed funding …
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