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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
GitHub announces an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve docs, and more, and open-sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code — The AI coding agent will start working once a developer assigns it a task. … GitHub is launching an AI coding agent that can do things …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/GithubCopilot
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft open-sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux, launched in 2016, and makes it available on GitHub, except for a few Windows-specific components — Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows.
More: Windows Blog, The Verge, The New Stack, TechCrunch, OSnews, BetaNews, Liliputing, OMG! Ubuntu, Neowin, XDA Developers, Windows Central, and The Register
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches an open project called NLWeb to help devs add a “conversational interface” to their website in a few lines of code — As part of an effort to make building AI-powered chatbots on the web simpler, Microsoft is launching an open project called NLWeb.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Qualcomm plans to launch a CPU for data centers designed to work with Nvidia's GPUs, marking its re-entry into the data center market dominated by Intel and AMD — Qualcomm on Monday said it plans to launch processors designed for data centers to power artificial intelligence, which will link to Nvidia's chips.
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| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry service; sources: Satya Nadella had been pushing for Microsoft to host Grok — Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are both coming to Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service. … I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified — The bill sailed through Congress with a focus on deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft introduces Foundry Local, a service coming to Windows AI Foundry as well as macOS, to run AI models and tools on-device, using ONXX Runtime — Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered apps on Windows devices. — On Monday during its Build 2025 conference …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds support for Anthropic's open-source standard Model Context Protocol to Windows and rebrands the AI platform inside Windows as Windows AI Foundry — Microsoft is embracing Model Context Protocol as part of a push to reshape Windows in a world of AI agents.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS, allowing users to listen to Audio Overviews offline, interact with the AI hosts, add sources, and more — As previewed earlier this month, Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS ahead of I/O 2025.
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI for 10 years; the bill now goes to the House — New York CNN — — More than 100 organizations are raising alarms about a provision in the House's sweeping tax …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite — The actors union said Epic-owned Llama Productions “chose to replace the work of human performers with AI technology” …
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| Washington Post: |
Investigation: New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets with 200+ facial recognition cameras for two years, seemingly defying a 2022 city ordinance — Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
More: The Register, Engadget, Biometric Update, and Common Dreams
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says hackers breached its Legal Aid Agency to steal a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales — Hackers have stolen a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales, the UK's Ministry of Justice said.
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| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M, set to close in Q3, in the bankruptcy auction — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said it will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals …
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| Luisa Beltran / Fortune: |
Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, seeking at least $5B, the valuation it is targeting in a potential IPO — Brian Armstrong is cofounder and CEO of Coinbase — Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of the crypto stablecoin USDC … | Bloomberg: |
Huawei launches its first laptops running on HarmonyOS, including the 18-inch foldable MateBook Fold, and is working to make the OS compatible with 2,000+ apps — The company's HarmonyOS is now ready to run on the MateBook Fold, its latest foldable laptop, consumer chief Richard Yu said Monday.| Bloomberg: |
Source: the US DOJ has opened a probe into a recent data breach at Coinbase; Coinbase says it's working with the DOJ and other law enforcement agencies — Investigators, including those in the department's criminal division in Washington, are digging into the circumstances surrounding the breach …
More: Reuters, Decrypt, The Block, NewsBTC, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Watcher Guru, and CoinGape
| Twinnie Siu / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Taiwan-based Apple supplier Foxconn plans to inject $1.5B into its India unit via its Singaporean subsidiary, as production shifts away from China — The Taiwan-based company said in an exchange filing on Monday that it had made the investment through its Singaporean subsidiary.
More: PCMag, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, Times of India, Apple Must, Mobile World Live, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, and Business Standard. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: |
Graphiant, a San Jose-based NaaS startup, raised a $19M Series B extension led by Aramco's Wa'ed and Saudi Telecom's Tali, bringing the round total to $102M — The venture capital arms of Saudi Arabia's oil and telecom giants have invested in US tech startup Graphiant Inc. as the kingdom seeks … | CNBC: |
Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan will now let clients buy bitcoin, adding “We're not going to custody it. We're going to put it in statements for clients.” — JPMorgan Chase is finally allowing clients to buy bitcoin. But CEO Jamie Dimon is still a skeptic.
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| Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo: |
Researchers: GPT-4 was 64.4% more persuasive than humans in one-on-one debates when given basic personal information about the person it was trying to persuade — A new study shows LLMs like Chat GPT win more debates than humans when it gets a little personal.Sponsor Posts
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