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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI developed a watermarking method for detecting text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but its launch has been mired in internal debates  —  Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years
Nicholas Carlini:
A Google DeepMind research scientist details some LLM use cases and argues LLMs are not overhyped and should be judged on what they can do, not what they can't  —  Background on me  —  How I use AI  —  I don't think that “AI” models [a]  —  (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on new Apple Intelligence features, which do not yet live up to the excitement, Apple's design team leadership reshuffle, and Apple's Q3 earnings  —  The first preview of Apple Intelligence for developers shows just how far the company has to go to live up to the hype.
Jason Snell / Six Colors:
Apple Services Q3 revenue topped Mac, iPad, and wearables combined and may soon exceed hardware profits, but its services can't ever have priority over hardware
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous vehicles and some Chinese wireless communications hardware in US cars  —  The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Music streaming has exited its high-growth era, as big streaming services pick up fewer new subscribers, causing revenue shortfalls for music labels  —  Investors worry the industry has peaked.  Label bosses preach patience.  —  Hollywood is warming up to the promise of artificial intelligence.
Forums: r/indieheads
Zach Dorfman / Politico:
A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc  —  During the early days of Silicon Valley, a tech industry entrepreneur teamed up with the FBI to ship faulty devices to Moscow.
New York Times:
An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some military-tied Chinese organizations have bought restricted chips  —  The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military.  The private sector is fighting back.
Dave Lee / Bloomberg:
A look at the flurry of so-called Zoom rallies supporting the campaign to elect Kamala Harris; one Zoom call reportedly attracted 190K people and raised $4M  —  Online rallies give the vice president a platform her opponent can't match.  —  Advancements in technology can play a defining role in how an election cycle plays out.
More: New York Times, Slate, and Inc.com
Threads: @daveleebbg, @daveleebbg, and @daveleebbg.  Forums: r/politics
The Information:
Sources: Nvidia told Microsoft and another large cloud provider that its new Blackwell AI chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws  —  Nvidia's upcoming artificial intelligence chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws, a snafu that could affect customers …
Financial Times:
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes  —  Technology stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in their investments in artificial intelligence

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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The White House has blocked CNN from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One on Saturday to Knoxville, TN, jeopardizing the rotational TV pool

Annie Massa / Bloomberg:
A Trump family company has filed a trademark application for “Trump TV”, after the White House launched a channel by that name on its website and on YouTube

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series

More News

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled and tells users to switch to other ad blockers before deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions
Josh Noble / Financial Times:
How YouTube, NBC, Eurosport, and others are enlisting creators to cover the Paris Olympics, to fill in storytelling gaps and captivate a younger generation
Eric Platt / Financial Times:
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
How AI-formulated bioweapons became a security obsession inside Washington, DC, forcing officials to take tech advances in weaponizing disease seriously

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Huawei, which has expanded into new businesses, built out its supply chain, and boosted profit, thanks to billions of dollars in Beijing support
Michael McWhertor / Polygon:
ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A look at RayV Lite, an open-source laser hacking tool built by two hackers for less than $500 that can reverse engineer chips and exploit their vulnerabilities
The Information:
Character.AI told staff that investors will be bought out at a valuation of ~2.5x its $1B 2023 valuation, and it plans to adopt open-source models for products
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