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Google updates Gemini in Gmail to add a Polish feature to edit existing drafts, on top of Formalize and Elaborate, for Google One AI Premium and Workspace — Google is upgrading its Gemini writing tools in Gmail to help you polish drafts that you've already written.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, letting developers customize a version of the model with their own datasets to improve domain-specific performance — Fine-tune custom versions of GPT-4o to increase performance and accuracy for your applications — Today, we're launching fine-tuning …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases three Phi-3.5 models designed for basic/fast reasoning and more, available for developers to download, use, and fine-tune on Hugging Face — Microsoft isn't resting its AI success on the laurels of its partnership with OpenAI. — No, far from it.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US appeals court revives a class action suit by Google Chrome users who say Google collected personal info even if Chrome was not synced with a Google account — A U.S. appeals court said Google (GOOGL.O) must face a revived lawsuit by Google Chrome users who said the company collected …
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Filing: chipmaker Microchip Technology says its servers were breached by an unauthorized party, causing its operations to run at “less than normal levels” — - Nvidia, GlobalWafers have also been attacked in the past — Breach comes as nations are competing for chip dominance| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to ~$12.5B, above ~$12.2B est., and a ~$715M net income, above ~$533M est., as its core smartphone business recovers — Sales rose a better-than-projected 32% to 88.9 billion yuan ($12.5 billion), versus the average analyst estimate of 86.9 billion yuan.
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| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
A US district judge in Texas strikes down the FTC's ban on worker noncompete agreements, due to start September 4, after temporarily blocking the rule in July — A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday barred a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
In a Reddit AMA, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence says Sonos won't rerelease its old app, after testing showed that doing so “would make the problems worse, not better” — If you want the old Sonos app back, it's not coming. In a Reddit AMA response posted Tuesday …
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| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Walmart, JD.com's largest shareholder, is raising about $3.6B by selling its stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm; JD falls 9%+ — - Share sale marks the end of partnership that started in 2016 — Walmart focused on own online platform amid Sam's Club success
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| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
After rivals' criticism, CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas says no vendor can “technically” guarantee their software won't cause a similar incident to July — Botched update that hit millions of computers leads to claims of ‘ambulance chasing’ by competitors
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese government data: China is unleashing billions in lending to tech startups using intellectual property as collateral, up 57% YoY to ~$58.8B in H1 2024 — Beijing ramps up use of intellectual property as collateral to try to revive credit growth — China is unleashing billions …
X: @zacharykeck, @chinabeigebook, and @tanarrowz
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Shein sues Temu for copyright infringement, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and masquerading “as a legitimate e-commerce ‘marketplace’” — Shein, notorious for being accused of copyright infringement by small artists and big brands alike …
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