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A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model — Microsoft (MSFT.O) has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission …
More: The Guardian, Thurrott, Fox Business, The Verge, The Economic Times, Silicon Republic, Popular Information, ExchangeWire.com, Music Ally, Digit, The Hans India, SiliconANGLE, The Hollywood Reporter, KnowTechie, The A.V. Club, Los Angeles Times, VICE, Publishers Weekly, Digital Journal, Music Business Worldwide, The Guardian, Deadline, Jane Friedman, Reclaim The Net, Windows Report, Music Ally, Business Today, The Information, Android Headlines, The American Bazaar, and Semafor
| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train Llama is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments — Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered …
More: TechCrunch, Wired, Authors Alliance, eWeek, Mashable, Engadget, Publishers Weekly, United States District Court, Northern District of California, Associated Press, CNBC, The Verge, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, The Information, Maginative, Digit, Cryptopolitan, implicator.ai, The Irish Times, Verdict, Bloomberg Law, and Washington Post
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Forums: r/technology, r/law, r/law, r/books, and Slashdot
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
More: PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, Associated Press, and Law.com
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has poached three researchers from OpenAI's Zurich office, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, for its superintelligence efforts — Social-media giant has hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai for its superintelligence effort| Anthony Robledo / USA Today: |
The Trump Organization replaces T1 Phone's “made in America” language on Trump Mobile's site with “brought to life right here in the USA” and “proudly American” — President Donald Trump's newly launched cellular service is defending its claims …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that lets dataset holders detail how machines can or cannot reuse their content, such as for training AI models — Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era.
More: Creative Commons, Creative Commons on GitHub, PetaPixel, and Maginative
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| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors charge Kai West, a UK man known as IntelBroker who was arrested in February in France, with conspiring to steal data from dozens of companies — A 25-year-old British man known as “IntelBroker” was accused by US authorities of conspiring with a group of hackers to steal data … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Source: Le Parisien. More: The Record, Cointelegraph, CyberInsider, Infosecurity, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, The Cyber Express, Cyber Security News, and The Register
| Callan Quinn / Decrypt: |
Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week — Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ethtrader
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
FHFA Director William Pulte orders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to consider crypto as an asset in single-family mortgage applications without liquidating to USD — In a landmark shift for the U.S. housing finance system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has issued a directive ordering Fannie Mae …
More: The Block, Associated Press, Bitcoinist.com, Inside Bitcoins, BTC Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoNinjas, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Cryptopolitan, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, ZeroHedge News, Coinpedia Fintech News, American Banker, CoinDesk, CNN, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, and CoinGape
| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek's highly anticipated R2 model faces delays due to a shortage of Nvidia server chips in China, exacerbated by the US' ban of Nvidia's H20 chips — The latest round of U.S. chip export controls may have curbed DeepSeek's rise, at least for now.
More: Reuters, TipRanks Financial, Insider Monkey, Business Insider, and Financial Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple execs have discussed starting a theatrical distribution unit; Warner Bros. is distributing the F1 movie and getting a share of box office revenue — Six years after getting into entertainment, Apple lags behind its rivals in streaming subscribers and mainstream appeal, despite lavish spending on A-list stars| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Sony says its PlayStation Plus three-tier overhaul has “surpassed our expectations” and that the $160/year Premium tier has grown 18% in the past 12 months — Sony kicks off PS Plus' 15th anniversary by chatting with Game File about the past, present and future … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress — People who talk to Anthropic's Claude chatbot about emotional issues tend to grow more positive as the conversation unfolds … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Anthropic now lets Claude app users build, host, and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude via Artifacts, available in beta to Free, Pro, and Max users — The upgrade, launching in beta, builds upon Anthropic's Artifacts feature introduced last year that lets you see and interact with what you ask Claude to make.
More: Anthropic, VentureBeat, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Decoder, Beebom, WinBuzzer, Lifewire, Engadget, Tom's Guide, ZDNET, SiliconANGLE, and Inc
| Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more — “What will AI mean for jobs?” may be the single most-asked question about the technology category that dominates Silicon Valley, pop culture, and our politics.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI — Silicon Valley is at odds over whether AI can reach and exceed humanlike intelligence, a milestone with major implications … | Amber Neely / AppleInsider: |
US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to try to break Apple's and Google's app store dominance; the 2021 version never came up for a vote — Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan “Open App Markets Act” …
More: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn …, The Mac Observer, Engadget, Tech Times, Phone Scoop, Broadband Breakfast, 9to5Mac, and iClarified
X: @laz_radic, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @ccianet, @appfairness, @sayreevan, @lutherlowe, @marshablackburn, @mrddmia, @jason_kint, and @timsweeneyepic. LinkedIn: Reinhold Kesler
| Bloomberg: |
Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy — Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff said his company has automated a significant chunk of work with AI …
More: Nairametrics and CNBC
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Kraken launches Krak, a payments app that lets users send funds P2P across 110 countries using 300+ assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies — The Krak app allows users to instantly transact across borders for almost no cost, while earning competitive rewards on their account balances.| BBC: |
Aylo, which owns Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, will add “government approved age assurance methods” in the UK by July 25 to comply with the Online Safety Act — Aylo, the owner of adult sites Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube, says it will introduce “government approved age assurance methods” in the UK.
More: Telegraph, UPI, Politico, Press Association, Silicon UK, and The Independent
| Financial Times: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying “human verification is top of mind for us right now” — Chief Steve Huffman warns of ‘arms race’ to protect its devoted online communities from AI-generated content Reddit is in an … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US — YouTube is rolling out new AI-powered features to help users find content and information more easily, the company announced on Thursday.
More: YouTube Official Blog and Fortune India
| Sam Blum / Inc: |
Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with “spammy behavior” from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work — How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain ‘spammy behavior’ from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini.
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