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Washington Post:
Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose  —  In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements
Bloomberg:
Snowflake confirms that the data breach at AT&T is connected to the hack that has affected other customers, including Ticketmaster and LendingTree  —  - Fallout from attack disclosed in May is still spreading  — Ticketmaster, LendingTree among recent victims in crime spree
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Sources: John Binns, a US citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey and indicted for allegedly hacking T-Mobile in 2021, is linked to the AT&T data breach
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers
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Reuters:
An internal document and source detail OpenAI's Strawberry, formerly known as Q*, which aims to improve its AI models' reasoning capabilities dramatically  —  ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election  —  - While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Arkham: the German government appears to have sold its last bitcoin on July 12, after authorities seized ~50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, in January 2024 from suspects  —  - The German government had received 50,000 Bitcoin in January  — Bitcoin's price has been choppy in recent weeks on worries
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content  —  A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …
Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
Galaxy Digital: investment in crypto by VCs and others rose to $3.2B in Q2 2024, the highest amount in a quarter since Q4 2022, and up from $2.5B in Q1 2024  —  Plus, updates on former FTX executives and PayPal's stablecoin … Crypto start-ups trying to raise money have found it very difficult over the past few years.
Steven Levy / Wired:
A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after its near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI  —  After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much.  And don't ask it to license its archive to AI.
Anuj Ahooja / augment:
Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform  —  It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
A look at the rise and fall of Jump Crypto and former President Kanav Kariya, and Jump's involvement in some of crypto's biggest scandals, like FTX's collapse  —  The Zoom meeting at Jump Crypto was always running.  And in May 2021, a scrum of employees was on the screen, discussing a mounting crisis.
Financial Times:
A profile of Shein's executive chair Donald Tang, who has become the public face of the company as he leads its expansion overseas and prepares for a London IPO  —  Executive whose rise on Wall Street won fame in his native China faces tough task at fashion group planning London IPO

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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