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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
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| 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: |
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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,” …
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| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.| Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: |
Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts — Campaign is part of tech giant's long-running global battle to prevent employees from organising| 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.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Hashed: 1M+ memecoins have been created on Pump.fun, a platform based on the Solana and Blast blockchains, generating $50M+ in revenue since its January launch — - Pump.fun is one of the most profitable memecoin projects — Platform has been at the center of crypto's memecoin craze| 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 IPOSponsor Posts
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Security update: Retiring weak TLS cipher suites — At Zoho Corp, we are dedicated to maintaining the highest security and compliance standards. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance security …
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