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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4, which excels at coding, and Claude Sonnet 4, both hybrid models with near-instant responses and extended thinking — Today, we're introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.
More: Exponential View, Simon Willison's Weblog, 9to5Mac, The New Stack, ZDNET, and MacStories
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Billy Perrigo / Time: |
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked recording: Sam Altman told his staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices meant for everyday life, and to release the first by late 2026 — Idea is a 'chance to do the biggest thing we've ever done as a company here,' Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Kuo: Ive and Altman's device could be larger than Humane's AI pin, may connect to smartphones and PCs to use their computing and display capabilities, and more — Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is mostly known for Apple rumors, and now says users might be able to wear OpenAI's future device around their neck.
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI acquires io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for nearly $6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI — OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …
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| Wired: |
A security researcher finds an exposed Elastic database with 184M records, including login credentials for Apple, Meta, Google, and others; its owner is unknown — A trove of breached data, which has now been taken down, includes user logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta.
More: Website Planet, AppleInsider, Macworld, 9to5Mac, PCMag, XDA Developers, MakeUseOf, iDrop News, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, Hackread, and WebProNews
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google is tapping its users' data to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in “Gemini with personalization” feature — Google is slowly giving Gemini more and more access to user data to ‘personalize’ your responses.
More: The Keyword, CTech, Gulf Business, and Expats.cz
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more — Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI."
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/mlscaling
| The Mozilla Blog: |
Mozilla plans to shut down Pocket, the read-it-later service it acquired in 2017, on July 8, and Fakespot, which helps identify unreliable reviews, on July 1 — Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build.
More: Mozilla Support. Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @brandrick, and @jefe. X: @modestproposal1
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is reducing “politically focused emails” internally and externally; workers cannot send emails mentioning “Palestine”, “Gaza”, or “genocide” — Employees discovered that emails with a variety of terms related to Gaza and Palestine have been blocked internally.
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LinkedIn: Mohammad Fadel and Kevin Beaumont
| Tech Policy Press: |
The US House passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a budget bill that would ban states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years; the bill now heads to the Senate — The United States House of Representatives early Thursday narrowly passed a budget bill that, if enacted, would ban states …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry bust Sam Altman's myths around OpenAI, and highlight the pursuit of power behind the do-gooder rhetoric — Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris
More: Wired, The Guardian, New Yorker, New York Times, and Business Insider
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Signal says its desktop app will block Windows from taking screenshots of it by default due to Recall's privacy risks; users can enable screenshots in settings — Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall …
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Bluesky: @lokman.org, @huibmodderkolk, @swallez.com, @ketanjoshi.co, @timbray.cosocial.ca …, @jukkan, @selectric.space, and @meredithmeredith
X: @alex4only and @signalapp
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/technology, r/signal, r/signal, and Ars OpenForum
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Kraken plans to offer tokenized versions of 50+ stocks and ETFs, including Apple and Tesla stocks, to customers in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia — The platform will offer overseas customers tokenized versions of more than 50 stocks and ETFs — Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange … | IGN: |
Q&A with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto on Super Nintendo World, redesigning Donkey Kong, growing Pikmin, enhancing games for the Switch 2, and more — “What's important is to be able to create something new.” — In May of 2015, Nintendo officially announced plans to partner … | Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun unveils the Xring O1, a Xiaomi-made 3nm chip that will power three devices, including the Tablet 7 Ultra, in a bid to compete with Apple — The 5-meter long vehicle's top model can go 760 kilometers on a single charge and hit 100 km/h in 3.23 seconds …
More: The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Google, Patently Apple, The Economic Times, Reuters, GSMArena.com, Nokiamob, CNBC, Reuters, XiaomiTime, Mashable India, DigiTimes, and DigiTimes
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ recently told Google it is examining whether Google structured an agreement with Character.AI to avoid formal government merger scrutiny — Antitrust enforcers have recently told Google they're examining whether it structured an agreement with the company known as Character.AI … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers — Amazon is adding another AI twist to its shopping app with an audio feature that provides highlights and insight about certain products.
More: Engadget, MakeUseOf, About Amazon, PCMag, Mashable, Verdict, The Verge, and Lifewire. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Bill Zanker, who sources say has been instrumental in marketing $TRUMP and organizing the President Trump dinner for the memecoin's top 220 holders — A dinner on Thursday in Washington — billed as the “Most Exclusive Once in Lifetime Invitation” — is the latest …
More: BBC, Associated Press, Raw Story, Coinpedia Fintech News, ZyCrypto, NPR, and Politico
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
More: The Block, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, Politico, and CoinDesk
Bluesky: @scottwiener, @simonwdc, @ericjgeller.com, and @kevincollier. Mastodon: @wdlindsy@toad.social
| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
A New York jury convicts Braden John Karony, the former CEO of crypto company SafeMoon, of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering, and wire fraud — A New York jury found Braden John Karony, the former CEO of cryptocurrency company SafeMoon, guilty of three felony charges after less than a day of deliberation.| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI partners with G42 and others to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi called Stargate UAE, its first large-scale project outside the US — Stargate UAE project is part of a push by the Gulf petrostate to become a big player in artificial intelligence
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Bluesky: @riehlalice, @mxp, and @medru
| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Running app Strava raised new funding at a $2.2B valuation including debt, up from $1.5B after raising $110M in November 2020, and nears $500M in ARR — Strava, whose valuation includes debt, says it acquired cycling app The Breakaway — Strava, the popular running and exercise app …
More: Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Strava, Yahoo Finance, The Times, and Tech Funding News. Forums: r/Strava
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