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Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law — TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors.
More: PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, The A.V. Club, The Daily Caller, PhoneArena, Reuters, The Wrap, Deadline, The Verge, iClarified, Android Headlines, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Capital Brief, Oh No They Didn't!, and Fox Business
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Verne Kopytoff / Fortune: |
Former Google staffers and others detail why Google's 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US — Equivalent in size to nearly eight football fields, the plant began producing the Google Motorola phones in the summer of 2013.| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
The GSA says Oracle is giving the US government a 75% discount on its license-based software and a “substantial” discount on its cloud service through November — The deal could help increase adoption of the tech giant's cloud platform throughout the federal government| Robert Frank / CNBC: |
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M — The wealthy will likely see a host of new tax breaks in President Donald Trump's “big beautiful bill,” along with permanent extensions …
More: Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times
| Lila Shroff / The Atlantic: |
Gemini referencing real-life moments when prompted to write a birthday letter shows how effectively Google is leveraging user data to craft personalized content — Google is ushering in an era of custom chatbots. — In May, I asked Google's chatbot, Gemini, to write a birthday letter to my best friend.
Bluesky: @damonberes.com
| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at DeepSeek's impact on the AI model race and market share landscape, roughly 150 days after DeepSeek R1 shook stock markets and the Western AI world — SemiAnalysis is hiring an analyst in New York City for Core Research, our world class research product for the finance industry.| Louis Ashworth / Financial Times: |
A profile of Steam developer Valve, which has a flat corporate structure and high profit per head; Ampere: Steam hit 170M MAUs in May, versus 153M a year prior — Peering inside one of the tech world's strangest companies — Here at FT Alphaville we love exploring “black hole” companies …
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @tobyn. X: @colleenklein. LinkedIn: Robin Wigglesworth
Forums: Hacker News and r/Games
| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with ~850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music — “ Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine. — The traffic receded as Chicago withdrew …
More: Rolling Stone, TechRadar, and Stereogum
| Nikkei Asia: |
Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews — Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review — TOKYO — Research papers …
More: TechCrunch, implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, and The Decoder
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LinkedIn: Andrea Matera, Fei Wang, Dr Marko Selakovic, Shilpi Mehra, Philip Torr, and Pablo Navas. Forums: Hacker News
| Myles Miller / Bloomberg: |
A look at the US Secret Service's GIOC, which sources say helped seize ~$400M in digital assets over the past decade through crypto scam investigations globally — The scam began with a message, then a friendly exchange. A stranger directed the victim to a cryptocurrency investment site …
More: PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, DL News, crypto.news, BeInCrypto, Cointelegraph, and The Crypto Times
| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with British Library CEO Rebecca Lawrence on dealing with the aftermath of a major October 2023 cyberattack, AI scraping, AI for text analysis, and more — Are you reading books — physical books — as much as you used to? — Few of us are, and it made me wonder about the path ahead for national libraries.
LinkedIn: Mishal Husain
| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
Tokyo-based Sakana AI details a new Monte Carlo tree search-based technique that lets multiple LLMs cooperate on a single task, outperforming individual models — Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large language models (LLMs) to cooperate on a single task …
More: Sakana AI, Sakana AI on GitHub, TheSequence, arXiv.org, and Sakana AI on GitHub
| France 24: |
The Colombian navy says it has seized an unmanned narco-submarine that was equipped with a Starlink terminal, enabling the sub to be controlled remotely — The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
The term “superintelligence” is becoming increasingly popular among AI leaders, even as many in the industry question whether it is ill-defined and overhyped — A new AI buzzword is picking up speed in Silicon Valley. — But first.... AGI inflation
More: Ars Technica and Forbes
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