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Niket Nishant / Reuters:
Coinbase says hackers accessed a “small subset” of users' data, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M to $400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom  —  Coinbase (COIN.O) forecast a hit between $180 million and $400 million from a cyber attack that breached account data of a …
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, which examines Apple's role in enabling China's rise; Apple says it is “full of inaccuracies”
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 in ChatGPT for Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers “by popular request”, 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.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches the “Safety evaluations hub”, a webpage showing how its models score on tests for harmful content generation, jailbreaks, and hallucinations  —  OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit …
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system”  —  Apple suggests that users are putting themselves at risk by using third-party alternatives.
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Microsoft plans to shut down its Bing Search APIs on August 11; a source says the largest customers will retain access, and DuckDuckGo says 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
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Grok replied on X to debunk claims of 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.
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  —  Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet  —  Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X …
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.
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 …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple rolls out CarPlay Ultra, the next-generation of CarPlay, in new and existing Aston Martins in North America after long delays, ahead of a wider rollout  —  After months of delays, Apple today officially announced the launch of next-gen CarPlay, now with a new brand name of ‘CarPlay Ultra’.
Joe Tidy / BBC:
Hacking group DragonForce says it stole UK retailer Co-op's customer data and planned to deploy ransomware, but Co-op quickly shut down its systems, unlike M&S  —  Co-op narrowly averted being locked out of its computer systems during the cyber attack that saw customer data stolen …
Bloomberg:
Documents: Microsoft's recent layoffs of 6,000 workers hit software engineers in Washington state hardest, making up 40%+ of the ~2,000 positions cut there  —  In Microsoft's home state of Washington, software engineering was by far the largest single job category to receive layoff notices …
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.
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.
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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

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Bloomberg:
Sources: bankers approached potential buyers about acquiring WBD's New Line Cinema, and its cable networks draw interest, as Paramount's legal fight drags on

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Memo: Disney offers longtime US-based executives across Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and corporate divisions early retirement packages amid cost-cutting efforts

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
An arbitrator orders the Washington Post to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired for “gross misconduct” last year over posts made after Charlie Kirk's shooting

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU provisionally finds that TikTok breached the DSA by failing to offer a publicly searchable ad library, potentially opening the platform up to a fine
Bloomberg:
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$32.8B, below $33B est., and net income up 200%+ to ~$1.7B due to equity investment gains; BABA drops 5%+
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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