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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is “freeware” that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use “social contract” — Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon hires the CEO and co-founders of Adept, which builds AI agents that automate enterprise workflows, to join its AGI team and will use some of Adept's tech — Amazon is amping up its AI efforts by hiring executives from Adept, a San Francisco-based startup building “agents” that automate enterprise workflows.
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| The Verge: |
A look at the possible impact of SCOTUS overturning Chevron deference and curbing federal agencies' power on net neutrality, Big Tech regulation, and more — Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the EPA, FCC, FTC, FDA, and so on.
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LinkedIn: Christopher Perkins, Michael Elkins, and Dan Spuller
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| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Source: Microsoft told over a dozen Texas agencies and public universities that their emails were exposed in the Russian hack of Microsoft, disclosed in January — - Company initially disclosed the cyberattack in January — Some agencies say exposed emails related to routine matters
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| Financial Times: |
The EU explores an antitrust probe into Microsoft's OpenAI deal, after the EC dropped a merger review due to a lack of evidence that Microsoft controls OpenAI — EU executive arm drops merger review into US tech companies' alliance — Brussels is preparing for an antitrust investigation …
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| Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware: |
Hugging Face unveils Open LLM leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot — Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability. — Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard … | Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
The US Treasury finalizes a rule requiring cryptocurrency brokers to report new information on users' sales and exchanges of digital assets to the IRS — The U.S. Treasury Department finalized a rule on Friday requiring cryptocurrency brokers, including exchanges and payment processors … | Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg: |
Indonesia's government declines to pay the $8M demanded by LockBit 3.0 for the ransomware attack that affected hundreds of ministries and public institutions — - The recovery will only be completed in mid-August: minister — Indonesia's parliament called the government to task … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Consensys over its MetaMask service, alleging the wallet tool was an unregistered broker that “engaged in the offer and sale of securities” — The SEC alleged that MetaMask acted as an unregistered securities broker and that its staking service violated securities laws.| Tim Marchman / Wired: |
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic — WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe's Assistant bot.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26 and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29, aka Midnight Blizzard — The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Lambda, which rents out servers powered by Nvidia's AI chips, is in talks to raise $800M, after a $320M Series C at a $1.5B valuation in February — Silicon Valley start-up that rents out servers powered by chip giant seeks to capitalise on investor interest
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