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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers — 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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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
US v. Google: a judge says Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and used exclusive agreements to raise prices without any competition — A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Apple and Mozilla will take a big revenue hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; in 2021 to 2022, $510M of Mozilla's $593M revenue came from its Google deal — “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” — With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft's loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision — Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge's decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| John Schulman / @johnschulman2: |
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research” — I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
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| The Information: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he's taking a sabbatical through the end of 2024; a source says OpenAI product leader Peter Deng, who joined in 2023, left — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A look at some of Apple's pre-prompt instructions for Apple Intelligence, including “do not hallucinate” for a text generation feature — Apple's latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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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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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Samsung starts mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it is 9% thinner than most LPDDR5X and improves devices' heat resistance by 21.2% — The new package frees additional space. — Samsung has started mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases patches for 46 Android security vulnerabilities, including a kernel zero-day the company says “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — Android security updates this month patch 46 vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) exploited in targeted attacks.| 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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| Bloomberg: |
The US awards South Korea's SK Hynix an initial $450M in grants and $500M in loans to build an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiana under the CHIPS Act — - Firm to get $450 million Chips Act grant, $500 million loan — Indiana facility focused on advanced packaging, research| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.7B, Gross Bookings up 19% YoY to $40B, vs. $39.7B est., Mobility Gross Bookings up 23% YoY to $20.6B, and 7.4M drivers — - Results driven by better-than-expected growth in ridehailing — Autonomous rides grew six-fold from year ago through partners
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| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
How Google's Character.AI deal, which sources say had a $2B licensing fee, and other Big Tech AI deals show startups are seeking bailouts after raising billions — Amazon, Google and Microsoft are using a new type of deal to get employees and technology from artificial-intelligence firms
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| Washington Post: |
Letter: the secretaries of state from PA, WA, MI, NM, and MN ask Elon Musk to change X's Grok to stop the AI assistant from spreading false election information — Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk's X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states.
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Forums: r/Twitter and r/politics
| 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’| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
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