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Hayden Field / CNBC:
Source: at an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said there are no plans for him to get a “giant equity stake” in OpenAI, calling that information “just not true”  —  At an all-hands meeting Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied that there are plans for him to receive a …
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Current and former staff say OpenAI has rushed product announcements and safety testing, lost its lead over rivals, and Altman is detached from the day-to-day  —  Executives and researchers have left this year amid disputes over the company's values and fights among its leaders
Kate Rooney / CNBC:
In an email to OpenAI's investors, CFO Sarah Friar says the company's current funding round was oversubscribed and is set to close next week
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft details how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature, including making it opt-in and giving users an option to uninstall  —  In response to security concerns, Microsoft is detailing how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Gemini-powered contextual Smart Replies, which analyzes the context of an email and suggests a detailed reply, in Gmail for paid users  —  Following the announcement at I/O 2024, Google is now rolling out Contextual Smart Replies to Gmail for Android and iOS.
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an investigation into a 2019 breach, fining Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text  —  The Irish Data Protection Commission found that the company violated several GDPR rules.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple rethinks its movie strategy, including rolling back theatrical releases and cutting budgets for most to under $100M, after some box office misses  —  The tech giant intended to spend $1 billion annually on films for cinemas.  After several box office disappointments …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Steam changes its subscriber agreement, removing its forced arbitration policy and allowing gamers to take legal action against its parent company Valve  —  Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve.
Kyle Wiens / iFixit News:
iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max teardown: great modularity upgrades and better repairability due to a dual-entry design and a metal enclosure for the 16 Pro's battery  —  We first cracked into the iPhone 16 lineup over the weekend, and we were impressed.  The vanilla iPhone 16 earned a respectable 7 out of 10 repairability score.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Source: Arm approached Intel about potentially buying Intel's product group, but not its factory operations; Intel declined, saying the division isn't for sale  —  The World's Call Center Capital Is Gripped by AI Fever — and Fear … Hello World
Washington Post:
Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making English versions of his speeches and to rebrand him as “misunderstood” via TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube  —  Videos of the Nazi leader speaking in English are reaching millions online.  Experts fear they are fueling a surge of antisemitism.
Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies  —  The platform blocked a journalist from sharing a purported research document on the candidate, mirroring its past controversy.
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
X is blocking links to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter with a hacked JD Vance dossier and has suspended Klippenstein's X account for posting Vance's personal info

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New York Times:
WBD says the Ellisons have “consistently misled” shareholders, including claiming Paramount's proposal had a “full backstop” but it “does not, and never has”

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Associated Press:
A US federal judge denied Sarah Palin's bid for a new libel trial against the NYT and rejected her motion for his recusal, after a jury found no libel in April

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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
The US DOJ charges three hackers employed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard for allegedly hacking Trump's presidential campaign and disseminating stolen info
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Kamala Harris is courting crypto investors and pro-crypto Democrats in Congress, as some prominent Democrats temper their initial skepticism of crypto assets
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI model listings for the first time; the platform began as a chatbot app in 2016 before becoming a hub for AI models in 2020
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
The Tor Project merges with Tails, a portable Linux-based OS focused on user privacy and anonymity; Tails says it had “outgrown its existing structure”
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