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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a search tool powered by GPT-4 that can organize links and summarize its findings, available as a prototype to 10,000 users at launch — OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.
More: VentureBeat, ZDNET, Android Police, The Information, TechCrunch, Reuters, Axios, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, BGR, Watcher Guru, and Investing.com
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI says it partnered with publishers including WSJ and The Atlantic to build its search engine SearchGPT; publishers can manage how their content appears — Built with input from publishers, SearchGPT will summarize real-time information on websites — OpenAI is launching a test version … | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Source and doc: Runway scraped thousands of videos from YouTube creators and brands, including Disney and VICE News, to train its Gen-3 AI video generation tool — A leaked internal document shows Runway's celebrated Gen-3 AI video generator collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated movies for training data.
More: VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget, POCIT, Dexerto, and PetaPixel
Threads: @firerock31. X: @alex, @mkbhd, @paulroetzer, @samleecole, @samleecole, @emanuelmaiberg, @emanuelmaiberg, @malwarejake, @ednewtonrex, @samleecole, and @josephfcox. LinkedIn: Samantha Cole
| Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind rolls out AlphaProof AI model, which specializes in math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an updated version of a model focused on geometry — AI models, trained on text, have historically struggled with math reasoning — Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.'s artificial …
More: Google DeepMind, MIT Technology Review, SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, New Scientist, New York Times, Maginative, The Decoder, Wired, Semafor, and AIM
LinkedIn: Arindam Khan and Jessica Yung
Forums: Hacker News and r/math
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: in a few weeks, the EU is set to hit Meta with its first antitrust fine, for up to 10% of its 2023 global revenue, for tying Marketplace and Facebook — Meta Platforms (META.O) is set to be hit in a few weeks with its first EU antitrust fine for tying classified advertisements service Marketplace … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google updates its Gemini chatbot with Gemini 1.5 Flash and a 32K-token context window in its free tier, links to related content for some prompts, and more — Google's Gemini AI chatbot will be able to respond to you more quickly and process more content in prompts thanks to an upgrade to the company's Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Microsoft says “Bing stopped crawling Reddit” after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 to prohibit “all crawling of their site” — Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site.
More: 404 Media, The Verge, Windows Central, SiliconANGLE, Inc.com, Search Engine Roundtable, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, MediaPost, TweakTown, Engadget, The TV Answer Man!, PC Gamer, Anthropic, Android Authority, Neowin, Cautious Optimism, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, and NewsBytes
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Forums: Hacker News and r/microsoft
| Sam Altman / Washington Post: |
We need a US-led global coalition of like-minded countries and a new strategy to ensure that a democratic vision for AI prevails over an authoritarian one — Sam Altman is co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. — Who will control the future of AI? — That is the urgent question of our time.
More: Maginative and Axios
| Financial Times: |
The UK FCA fines Coinbase £3.5M for providing payment services to 13K+ “high-risk” customers, in the agency's first enforcement action against a crypto company — Penalty for exchange's payments unit is first enforcement action by FCA against a crypto company
More: Financial Conduct Authority, Coinbase, CNBC, Blockworks, Decrypt, Cybernews.com, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Neowin, CoinGape, The Block, Cryptonews, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, CCN.com, Reuters, Milk Road, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph. LinkedIn: Andrew Henderson
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence apologizes for the new Sonos app, launched in May with a criticized redesign, and promises biweekly app updates through the fall — The big Sonos app redesign was intended to make the company's software more modern, customizable, and easier to use.
More: Sonos, MacRumors, Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Digital Trends. X: @sonos
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
FTC's newly unredacted filings quote an Adobe exec comparing early termination fees to “heroin”; Adobe's Dana Rao says the person was not on the leadership team — Early termination fees are “a bit like heroin for Adobe,” according to an Adobe executive quoted …
More: The Register, PCMag, and 9to5Mac
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The new Disney+, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle goes on sale in the US for $16.99 per month with ads and $29.99 per month without ads — Dragons, Jedis, Marvel and DC superheroes, Harry Potter, Disney princesses — and more from Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery — are now available to stream for a reduced monthly price.
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| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Revolut secures a UK banking license, ending a more-than-three-year-long regulatory battle; the London-based fintech has ~9M UK customers and 45M+ globally — London-based fintech receives approval from regulators in boost to expansion plans — Revolut has secured a UK banking licence …
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LinkedIn: Alex Barkley, Rolandas Juteika, Adam Grose, and Sarah Baldwin
Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/Revolut
| Maia Spoto / Bloomberg: |
California's Supreme Court upholds Prop 22, allowing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other companies to keep classifying California drivers as independent contractors — The unanimous ruling upholding California's Proposition 22 was released Thursday. — The favorable ruling … | TechCrunch: |
Google debuts new Maps features in India to help users easily navigate though flyovers and narrow roads, says it built an AI model specifically for Indian roads — Google is adding a slew of new features to Google Maps in India as it seeks to become a one-stop-shop for navigation and travel in the country.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft unveils Bing generative search, which shows LLM-generated answers with the sources used to create them, currently available to a small subset of users — Bing will soon prioritize AI-generated answers alongside traditional search results. — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
After investigating how Meta handles explicit AI-generated images, the Oversight Board asks Meta to shift “derogatory” terminology to “non-consensual”, and more — Following investigations into how Meta handles AI-generated explicit images, the company's semi-independent observer body …
More: The Hill, Oversight Board, Silicon UK, Tech Xplore, Reuters, PCMag, Benzinga, Fast Company, and The Independent
| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Meta removes ~63K Instagram accounts used by sextortion scammers in Nigeria, along with ~7,200 Facebook accounts, Pages, and Groups linked to the Yahoo Boys — - Purge includes thousands of Groups offering sextortion ‘tips’ — One network of 20 criminals was running 2,500 fake accounts| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Chainguard, which helps companies secure their software supply chain, raised a $140M Series C co-led by Redpoint, Lightspeed, and IVP at a $1.12B valuation — Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity startup Chainguard announced a $140 million Series C investment, bumping its valuation …
More: FinSMEs, LinkedIn, Fortune, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, and VC News Daily. X: @chirag_mehta
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag — It's not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch.
More: Forbes, ZDNET, Android Central, AppleInsider, Mashable, Digital Trends, Business Insider, and Android Police. Threads: @vicmsong
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI introduces Rule-Based Rewards, a method to automate some model fine-tuning and cut down the time required to ensure a model behaves safely — OpenAI announced a new way to teach AI models to align with safety policies called Rules Based Rewards. — According to Lilian Weng … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp now has more than 100M MAUs in the US and that more than 50% of WhatsApp users in the country have an iPhone; WhatsApp has 2B+ MAUs globally — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday on his channel that WhatsApp now has more than 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. … | Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's X poll asking whether Tesla should invest $5B in xAI ends with 67.9% voting yes, after Musk said on Tesla's earnings call that he supported the idea — - CEO takes poll on whether EV maker should back his startup — The two companies have intermingled on procurement, recruiting
More: The Information, Financial Times, The Economic Times, Reuters, TweakTown, and CNBC
Threads: @kolchak, @keubikooriginal, and @lorakolodny
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @seawolfcap, @wholemarsblog, @shaig, @quantian1, and @danahull
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
A NASA-funded study of satellite data finds traffic-related N02 pollution spiked ~20% near ~150K large US warehouses, which have proliferated due to e-commerce — The data is in, and it shows a significant rise in air pollution where e-retailers build their warehouses …
More: Nature, The Hill, and New York Times
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD delays its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch, originally set for July, to August due to an unspecified quality issue, and pulls back all shipped units to replace them — AMD hits the brakes on its Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 processors. — AMD announced today that it has delayed its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch due …
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