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US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates antitrust law — Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon shares fell 4%+, Nvidia fell 6%, and Microsoft and Meta fell ~3% amid worries about a potential US recession and massive AI spending — Apple (AAPL.O) and other heavyweight companies sold off on Monday as U.S. recession fears and Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKa.N) …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Bitcoin dropped below $50,000, its lowest level since February 2024 and down 17% since August 3, and ether dropped 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet — Cryptocurrencies tumbled amid a global market sell-off spurred by recession fears. — The price of bitcoin was last lower by 7% …
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| Financial Times: |
Investor letter: Elliott Management says megacap tech stocks, particularly Nvidia, were in “bubble land”, and AI is “overhyped” and “not ready for prime time” — Hedge fund tells clients many supposed applications of the technology are ‘never going to actually work’| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so — Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Elon Musk revives his OpenAI lawsuit, filing a complaint in California to allege that OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman breached OpenAI's founding contract — The Tesla chief executive has renewed claims that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good.
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| New York Times: |
In an email to staff, Linda Yaccarino says X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to San Jose offices and a new Palo Alto office shared with xAI — Elon Musk, X's owner, has clashed with California's leaders and has said the social media platform would move its headquarters to Texas.
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| Washington Post: |
In a letter, the secretaries of state from PA, WA, MI, NM, and MN ask Elon Musk to change X's AI assistant Grok to stop it from spreading false election info — Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk's X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states. She hasn't.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Memo from Microsoft's chief people officer: “everyone at Microsoft” now has “security” as a “Core Priority”, used in performance reviews — Microsoft will elevate security to the status of “core priority” for all employees as part of the process of focusing … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover a bug, exploited since 2018, in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that lets attackers avoid security warnings for unsigned binaries — A design flaw in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that enables attackers to launch programs without triggering security warnings … | Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
In a fifth dev beta for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15, Safari gets Distraction Control, which lets users block distracting elements on the page like pop-ups — You'll get to choose which page element to block on a site, as long as it doesn't change. — Ahead of the full release of iOS 18 …
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| Bloomberg: |
CrowdStrike says Delta CEO Ed Bastian failed to respond to an assistance offer from CEO George Kurtz; CrowdStrike hopes Delta will “agree to work cooperatively” — The allegation, in a letter Sunday from attorneys for the technology firm, builds upon CrowdStrike's claim last week …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it's changing the format of its DevDay conference this fall to a series of on-the-road developer sessions and GPT-5 will not be announced during it — Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools …
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| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup Groq raised a $640M Series D led by BlackRock at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1B after raising $300M in 2021, and adds an Intel executive as COO — Cisco and Samsung invested in the $640 million deal — Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. has raised $640 million in new funding …
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LinkedIn: Bernard Moon, Anh-Tho Chuong, and Claire Hart
| Reuters: |
Software consultancy Thoughtworks to be taken private by PE firm Apax Partners for ~$1.75B; TWKS jumps 26%+ but is still far below its 2021 IPO price — Thoughtworks (TWKS.O) on Monday agreed to be taken private by Apax Partners in a deal worth about $1.75 billion, the technology consultancy firm said …
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| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
Lumen, which sells data center networking and security products, says it secured new deals worth $5B from tech companies amid AI surge; LUMN up 35%+ after hours — Telecommunications firm Lumen Technologies (LUMN.N) has secured new deals worth $5 billion from cloud and tech companies …
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| Washington Post: |
An analysis of AI chats in English: 21% of people use chatbots for creative writing, 18% for homework help, 17% for search, 15% for work, and 7% for coding — AI chatbots are taking the world by storm. We analyzed thousands of conversations to see what people are really asking them and what topics are most discussed.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Booking CEO Glenn Fogel on the company's Booking.com, OpenTable, Kayak, Priceline, and Agoda brands, using AI to book trips, hotel industry, and more — The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.
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| Mihai Matei / SamMobile: |
Sources: Samsung plans to bring some Galaxy AI features to select mid-range smartphones as well, including the Galaxy A35 and Galaxy A55 which launched in 2024 — We have some exciting information to share, especially for Galaxy A phone users hoping to get their hands on some Galaxy AI action.| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Palantir raises 2024 revenue guidance to $2.74B-$2.75B and operating income guidance to $966-$974M, vs. $882.9M est., citing AI demand; PLTR up 16%+ after hours — - CEO Karp stresses technology's importance to US military … Palantir also topped analyst estimates for sales and profit for the quarter …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Placer.ai, which provides AI-powered market research based on location data, raised $75M at a $1.45B valuation, up from $1B at its Series C — Location data, for better or worse, continues to be a part of the bedrock of how apps are built. Now a startup developing AI market research based … Sponsor Posts
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