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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: Gizmodo, The Verge, Inc, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Capital Brief, The Wrap, The Mac Observer, Deadline, iClarified, and Reuters
| 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
| 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| 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.| 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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
| 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, crypto.news, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, DL 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
| 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
Bluesky: @cmacquar, @katherinestiles.org, @victorshammas.com, @thesgem, @bsky.dfucci.co, @markriedl, @maggy.kia.net, @alexandreafonso, @ketanjoshi.co, and @cameronwilson
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X: @acagamic, @scaling01, @phill__1, @sterlingcooley, and @neilturkewitz
LinkedIn: Andrea Matera, Fei Wang, Dr Marko Selakovic, Shilpi Mehra, Philip Torr, and Pablo Navas. Forums: Hacker News
| New York Times: |
Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May — More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation, brainstorming new products, and analyzing consumer reviews, as part of a five-year, $580M digital overhaul — Clorox employees' experiments with generative AI delivered new R&D ideas, better customer insights—and some misfires like ‘bleachless bleach’
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