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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Source: a16z has secured thousands of AI chips, including Nvidia H100 GPUs, and is renting them to portfolio companies, with the aim of expanding to 20K+ GPUs — Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most active venture capital investors in generative artificial intelligence …
More: Sequoia Capital and The Verge
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft hikes the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by $3 to $20/month for new subscribers and plans a Standard tier for $14.99/month without day-one titles — Microsoft is planning to hike its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate pricing again in September, alongside launching a new “standard” …
More: Windows Central, Xbox Support, CNET, Engadget, PC Gamer, Neowin, TheGamer, GamingBolt, Wccftech, IGN, Game Rant, GameSpot, BGR, Digital Trends, XboxEra, Kotaku, Press Start, MobileSyrup, Video Games Chronicle, and Gematsu
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Forums: r/gaming, r/gamesEcultura, r/MicrosoftRewards, r/XboxGamePass, and r/kindafunny
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US DOJ and its partners seized two domain names and 968 accounts on X used by Russian actors to create an AI-enhanced bot farm that spread disinformation — Russian media outlet RT ran the bot farm to pump out disinformation via 968 Twitter accounts, the US Justice Department says.
More: US Department of Justice, Joint Cybersecurity Advisory, The Register, Decrypt, The Hill, NBC News, NPR, Bloomberg, The Verge, BleepingComputer, SiliconANGLE, The Cyber Express, The Record, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, and Nextgov/FCW
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Skild AI, which is developing a foundational model for robotics, raised a $300M Series A at a $1.5B valuation led by Lightspeed, SoftBank, Coatue, Jeff Bezos — Skild AI has raised $300 million to continue building its plug-and-play robotic intelligence with the hope of enabling companies to integrate it into robots of all kinds.
More: SiliconANGLE, Skild AI, and Sequoia Capital
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Evolve Bank & Trust says that the personal data of at least 7.6M people was accessed during a February 2024 ransomware attack by LockBit — U.S.-based banking-as-a-service giant Evolve Bank & Trust said that cybercriminals accessed the personal data of millions of customers during a recent cyberattack.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google begins rolling out speedometers in Google Maps for iOS and CarPlay globally, more than five years after adding the features to the Android app — Google Maps has introduced speedometer and speed limits on iOS and CarPlay — more than five years after their debut on Android …
More: PYMNTS.com, BGR, Android Authority, iMore, autoevolution, AppleInsider, Trusted Reviews, What's Trending, MacRumors, Neowin, 9to5Google, Engadget, GSMArena.com, and The Verge
| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Current and former Tesla staff: self-driving data annotation staff were told to prioritize analyzing car data of VIP drivers, like Elon Musk and YouTube stars — An curved arrow pointing right. — Tesla gives special treatment to data from VIPs, including Elon Musk, when training its self-driving AI.
More: Electrek, Benzinga, and The Verge
Threads: @sebastianrako24, @moskov, @katienotopoulos, and @fredlambert94. X: @tslafanmtl. Forums: r/RealTesla
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Spotify adds the ability for users to leave comments on podcasts, expanding on polls and Q&As; comments will be private by default, and creators can opt out — The company already lets Spotify podcasters offer polls and Q&As, so this new feature could give creators new ways to interact with their audiences.| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: xAI ends talks with Oracle to expand an existing arrangement to rent Nvidia chips; source: Oracle is not part of xAI's supercomputer project in Memphis — Larry Ellison may be a friend and backer of Elon Musk, but even the Oracle executive chair isn't immune from Musk's impatience.| TIME: |
Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington announce Thrive AI Health, a new startup backed by OpenAI and Thrive Global to build a “hyper-personalized AI health coach” — A staggering 129 million Americans have at least one major chronic disease—and 90% of our $4.1 trillion …
More: The Verge, The Information, Thrive Global, Forbes, TechRadar, Ben's Bites, Observer, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, Maginative, Digital Trends, Cautious Optimism, WinBuzzer, FierceHealthcare, The Rundown AI, POCIT, Analytics India Magazine, Music Ally, Inc.com, TechCrunch, Decrypt, San Francisco Business Times, Fortune, MobiHealthNews, and The Hill
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Forums: r/UpliftingNews and r/singularity
| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
The FTC bans teen messaging app NGL from serving users under 18, a first; NGL agreed to pay $5M and stop marketing to kids and teens to settle the FTC's lawsuit — The groundbreaking FTC settlement stems from claims popular app NGL overhyped its anti-bullying efforts and engaged in aggressive marketing to kids and teens.
More: Federal Trade Commission, CNET, NBC News, The Verge, The Information, Engadget, New York Times, TechCrunch, and PCMag
X: @ftc, @usrepkcastor, @ftc, @saalevine, and @zephyrteachout
Forums: r/politics and Slashdot
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google will make its dark web monitoring feature available to all users for free in late July 2024, no longer requiring a Google One membership to access it — After the Google One VPN shutdown in late June, the “Dark Web reports” function is now coming to all Google Account holders from late July 2024.
More: Google Help Center, Android Headlines, Android Authority, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, and WebProNews
Forums: Hacker News and r/google
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
The Biden administration says it will direct up to $1.6B in CHIPS Act funding towards R&D to accelerate domestic capacity for advanced chip packaging — The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: the Google Pixel Watch 3 will come in 41mm and 45mm sizes, have smaller 4.5mm bezels, a brighter 2,000-nit display, and ultra-wideband support — The new Pixel Watch will finally fix some of the series' oldest problems. — • — The Google Pixel Watch 2 was a massive upgrade …
More: Android Police, The Verge, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Droid Life, Tom's Guide, Android Central, Wccftech, and TechRadar. Forums: r/Android
| Bloomberg: |
A group of investors led by Vista Equity Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Nasuni, valuing the hybrid cloud storage provider at ~$1.2B — - Majority stake transaction values Nasuni at about $1.2 billion … The deal values Nasuni at about $1.2 billion …
More: Nasuni, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and Tech Startups
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