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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches the Safety Evaluations Hub, a webpage showing how its models score on various tests for harmful content, jailbreaks, and hallucinations  —  OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is saying is an effort to increase transparency.
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 for Plus, Pro, and Team users in ChatGPT, and replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini for all ChatGPT users  —  OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models in ChatGPT, the company announced in a post on X Wednesday.  —  The GPT-4.1 models …
Bloomberg:
President Trump says he told Tim Cook that “I don't want you building in India”, “India can take care of themselves”, and Apple will be “upping” US production  —  President Donald Trump said India has made an offer to drop tariffs on US goods …
Issie Lapowsky / Vanity Fair:
Q&A with the FT's Patrick McGee on his new book Apple in China, examining Apple's role in enabling China's rise; Apple says the book is “full of inaccuracies”
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Microsoft plans to shut down Bing Search APIs on August 11; a source says the largest customers will retain access, and DuckDuckGo confirms it won't be affected  —  Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won't be affected.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 420% YoY to $981.6M, vs. $853M est., a $314.6M net loss, up from $129.2M in Q1 2024; CRWV drops 7%+ pre-market  —  Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave reported better-than-expected revenue on Wednesday in the company's first earnings release since going public.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
YouTube previews new ad formats coming to the platform, including an enhanced shoppable connected TV offering with a new interactive product feed
Google DeepMind:
Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that designs and optimizes advanced algorithms using an evolutionary framework  —  New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
Wired:
The CFPB withdraws its proposal for new rules to more tightly regulate US data brokers and their ability to sell sensitive information about Americans  —  Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans' sensitive personal data.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Grok replied with information about South Africa's “white genocide” when X users asked it to fact-check unrelated topics; the issue appears to have been fixed  —  Grok kept bringing it up in response to seemingly unrelated posts. … Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk's xAI …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based black market for crypto scammers and money launderers that enabled $27B+ in transactions, shuts down after mass account bans  —  Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee …
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Netflix says its ad-supported tier now has 94M MAUs, up from 70M in November 2024, and reaches more 18- to 34-year-olds than any US broadcast or cable network  —  Netflix said Wednesday its cheaper, ad-supported tier now has 94 million monthly active users — an increase of more than 20 million since its last public tally in November.
Reuters:
Waymo recalls 1,212 vehicles to update software and address collision risks, after the NHTSA opened an investigation in May 2024 following reports of incidents  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Waymo is recalling more than 1,200 self-driving vehicles to update software and address risks of collisions with chains …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Epic submits a new version of Fortnite to the US App Store after pulling the one it submitted on May 9, citing an update with new content  —  On Friday, Epic Games submitted Fortnite to the U.S. App Store, and since then, we've been waiting to see if Apple would approve the game and allow it back on the iPhone and the iPad.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $14.15B, vs. $14.08B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates, and announces CFO Scott Herren will retire on July 26  —  Cisco reported earnings and revenue that topped analysts' estimates on Wednesday and issued guidance that also exceeded Wall Street's prediction.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber debuts Route Share, a pooled rides option that is similar to a bus and up to 50% cheaper than UberX, available during commuting hours in SF, NYC, and more  —  In contrast, its existing pooled rides option cuts costs as much as only 20%.  But there's a catch: Route Share pickups run every 20 minutes …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery says it will change the name of its Max streaming service back to HBO Max this summer, and tweaks its logo; WBD dropped “HBO” in May 2023  —  Turns out, Warner Bros. Discovery thinks HBO has some pretty good brand equity, after all.

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From Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump

Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller calls for CBS staff who “revolted” over Bari Weiss' decision to postpone 60 Minutes' CECOT segment to be fired

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026

More News

Johnny Ryan / Irish Council for Civil Liberties:
The Belgian Court of Appeal rules the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and much of the internet, is illegal across Europe
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
How Mayo Clinic is using AI to boost efficiency and amplify human abilities in its radiology department, which has an AI team of 40 people and 400+ radiologists
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg:
Meta promotes Benjamin Joe, its longtime VP for Southeast Asia, to VP of Asia Pacific and expands India VP Sandhya Devanathan's role to include Southeast Asia
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of lidar manufacturer Luminar, resigns following an ethics inquiry and is replaced by former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Samaya AI, which is building AI models to assist financial analysts, raised a $43.5M Series A led by NEA, with participation from Eric Schmidt and others
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Foxconn receives approval from India's cabinet to build a new $435M semiconductor plant, expected to open in 2027, in a joint venture with IT giant HCL Group

Earlier Picks

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Meta releases the Open Molecules 2025 dataset and the Universal Model for Atoms, a family of AI models, to accelerate the development of new drugs and materials
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is developing a Vision Pro feature that lets users scroll content with their eyes, as part of visionOS 3
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic has new versions of Claude Sonnet and Opus, set to come out in the upcoming weeks, that can switch back to “reasoning” mode if they get stuck
Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net:
A look at the Nintendo Switch 2's final specs: a custom Nvidia T239 SoC, an Ampere-based GPU with 1,536 CUDA cores, 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM, DLSS support, and more
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple supports KOSA
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