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| 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
More: Nature, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Wired, WebProNews, and The Decoder
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/technology, r/singularity, r/math, r/slatestarcodex, and r/accelerate
| 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 …
More: OpenAI, VentureBeat, OpenAI, Ars Technica, Thurrott, Inc, Neowin, WebProNews, Digital Trends, The Decoder, BGR, and Engadget
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, Federal Register, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The Hill, and Daily Kos
Forums: r/technology, r/fednews, r/Anticonsumption, and r/esist
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 420% YoY to $981.6M, vs. $853M est., and net loss of $314.6M, up from $129.2M a year earlier — Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave reported better-than-expected revenue on Wednesday in the company's first earnings release since going public.| 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.
More: Microsoft Azure, Thurrott, Search Engine Roundtable, Neowin, MSFT Unboxed, and WinBuzzer
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| 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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LinkedIn: Alex Sherman, Sarah Whitten, Erin Sarofsky, and Cara Lustik
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. X: @dkhos, @uber, @chrispza716, @natlungfy, @ranimolla, and @barbarismcrit. LinkedIn: Adib Roumani
Forums: r/transit, r/technews, and r/technology
| 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 …
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Forums: r/technology, r/technology, and r/artificial
| 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.| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Databricks agrees to acquire cloud database startup Neon for ~$1B, set to close in Databricks' Q2 2025; Neon's platform is based on the open-source PostgreSQL — The deal is aimed at making it easier for businesses to build artificial intelligence agents with their own data, Databricks CEO says
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LinkedIn: Arjunan Rajeswaran, Sheridan McDonald, Matei Zaharia, Dan O'Mahony, Ameet Kini, and Jenna Kozel King. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 — Sens. Blackburn and Blumenthal are reintroducing the sweeping bill that failed in the eleventh hour last year.
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Forums: r/technology, r/politics, and Beehaw
| 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 — The hardware inside the new console - and some of the limitations developers need to work with.
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Forums: r/gamingnews, r/nvidia, r/Games, r/gadgets, r/hardware, r/gaming, r/NintendoSwitch, and Ars OpenForum
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Epic has submitted a new version of Fortnite to the US App Store after pulling the one it submitted on Friday, 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.
More: PCMag, AppleInsider, Sports Illustrated, and MacDailyNews
X: @shiinabr, @timsweeneyepic, @dimillian, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, r/FortNiteMobile, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
AMD approves a new $6B share buyback program, boosting its total repurchase authority to ~$10B, with no termination date; AMD jumps 4.7% but is down 2.5% YTD — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) on Wednesday announced a new $6 billion stock buyback plan, joining a string of chipmakers … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft extends security updates for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 until October 10, 2028, after previously planning to end support on October 14, 2025 — Microsoft 365 apps will continue to get security updates on Windows 10 for another three years.
More: Microsoft Support, Neowin, Ars Technica, The Register, XDA Developers, ZDNET, OSnews, TechSpot, GB News, PCMag, TechRadar, ITPro, Directions on Microsoft, PCWorld, Liliputing, iPhone in Canada Blog, Computerworld, Forbes, Windows Central, SC Media, and BleepingComputer
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| 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.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Stock trading app eToro closes up nearly 29% at $67 per share on its Nasdaq debut after raising almost $310M in its IPO, bringing its total market cap to $5.4B+ — Shares of stock brokerage platform eToro popped in their Nasdaq debut on Wednesday after the company raised almost $310 million in its initial public offering.
More: Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block, PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, NFTgators, Reuters, Fortune, Barron's Online, and Motley Fool. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is developing a Vision Pro feature that lets users scroll content with their eyes, as part of visionOS 3 — The eye-scrolling capability is being tested as part of visionOS 3, an upcoming version of the Vision Pro's operating system, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
More: MacRumors, UploadVR, The Verge, Macworld, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Trusted Reviews, Computerworld, BGR, and Cult of Mac
| 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 — Foxconn, a key manufacturer for Apple, has received an approval from India's cabinet to build a new 37 billion Indian rupees … | Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department issues guidance stating that “using Huawei Ascend chips anywhere in the world violates US export controls” as they likely use US tech — Commerce department guidance aims to toughen export controls on tech used by China to make AI processors
More: TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, Bureau of Industry …, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Don't Worry About the Vase, CNET, and Bloomberg
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LinkedIn: Barath Harithas and Ian Cohen
Forums: r/China, r/politics, r/technology, r/StableDiffusion, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Reuters: |
Chinese sites like JD.com are offering discounts of up to 2,530 yuan, ~$350, on iPhone 16 models, an effort to spur sales after Q1 shipments fell — Chinese e-commerce platforms are offering discounts of up to 2,530 yuan ($351) on Apple's latest iPhone 16 models, an effort to spur sales … | 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 — The race to develop reasoning models that “think” harder is at full force. At Anthropic, which arrived later … | Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q4 revenue down 24% YoY to ~$17.7B, PlayStation 5 units sold in FY 24 down 11% YoY to 18.5M, and expects a ~$700M impact from US tariffs in FY 25 — Silicon Valley Is Coming for the Pentagon's $1 Trillion Budget — The Trump administration wants startups to remake the US military …
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Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk. X: @destinlegarie, @geronimo_73_, @hazzadorgamin, @nextgenplayer, @6d6f636869, @oliver_drk, and @genki_jpn
Forums: r/inflation, r/LastStandMedia, r/technology, r/kindafunny, r/gadgets, and Slashdot
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber and delivery service iFood partner to integrate their services into each others' apps in Brazil; Uber ended its Uber Eats service in Brazil in March 2022 — Rideshare giant Uber Technologies Inc. and Prosus NV-backed delivery service iFood are partnering to integrate their services … | 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 — THE SCOOP — Meta released a massive trove of chemistry data Wednesday that it hopes will supercharge scientific research …
More: Meta, Berkeley Lab News Center, arXiv.org, and Meta
Threads: @zuck. X: @aiatmeta, @mshuaibii, @sammblau, @ralbergott56699, @rickytqchen, @opencatalyst, @andrew_s_rosen, and @berkeleylab. LinkedIn: Berkeley Lab Computing …
| 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 — Samaya AI cofounder and CEO Maithra Raghu. — Photo courtesy of Samaya AI — Samaya AI, a startup that creates AI models …
X: @samaya_ai, @jamesekaplan, @lucktm, @nea, @ericschmidt, and @maithra_raghu
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