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Sources: Walmart, Amazon, and Expedia have recently explored issuing or using stablecoins in the US to potentially save fees from cash and card transactions — Corporate coins could take payments activity away from banks and the traditional financial system
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Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the largest customer of Scale AI, plans to cut ties with Scale after news broke that rival Meta (META.O) … | Bloomberg: |
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media — Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.
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LinkedIn: James Souttar and Anne Trumbore
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says it is testing Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, available for Labs users in English in the US — If you opt into the test, you'll see the option to generate an Audio Overview based on some of your searches. … Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anne Wojcicki is poised to regain control of 23andMe, after her nonprofit TTAM offered $305M to top Regeneron's bid for the DNA-testing company — Regeneron is backing away from buying the DNA-testing company after a nonprofit controlled by co-founder Wojcicki made a higher bid
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated” by therapy AI chatbots — Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI …
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Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org and @Mikal@sfba.social
| James Hunt / The Block: |
Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto — - AI startup Yupp has raised $33 million in a seed funding round led by a16z crypto, founded by a team of veterans from Coinbase, Google, and X.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta — David Sacks, the venture capitalist advising President Trump on crypto and AI policy, is divesting his holdings in foundational AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement — The installation-free apps will join the Google graveyard in December. … Google has confirmed that it plans to shut …
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| Matt Swider / The Shortcut: |
Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles — 🏆 Review score: 5 out of 5 — 🏅 Editor's Choice Award — ✅ 🎮 Excellent build quality and premium feel| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels — Silicon Valley executives are joining a new innovation corps in Army Reserve — The nerd brigade is reporting for duty.
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X: @ericnewcomer, @johnwilson, @ssankar, @katienotopoulos, @kevinweil, @elianoayounes, @pitdesi, and @chafkin
LinkedIn: Jim Perkins and Kevin Weil
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/Military, and r/army
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Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license — We're learning more about Atticus, the stealthy stablecoin startup that we recently reported was raising funding … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 — It apparently took just days to make using Google's new text-to-video generator, Veo 3.
More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, Shelly Palmer, WinBuzzer, Mashable, The Rundown AI, and PetaPixel
| CNBC: |
Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six “pillars” to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market — For the better part of a decade, Amazon has been trying to carve it's way into the U.S. health-care market …
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