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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind — Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. … OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off …
More: CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, WinBuzzer, and Business Insider
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Forums: Hacker News, r/cursor, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI and Windsurf talks ended after Windsurf raised concerns over how its tech would fit into OpenAI's agreement to share tech with Microsoft — OpenAI's discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium, have ended.
More: New York Times, Bloomberg Law, Maginative, BleepingComputer, The New Stack, and The Verge
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired — The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3 billion offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, an OpenAI spokesperson told Fortune. — The expiration of the exclusivity period means … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company — OpenAI's deal to acquire the viral AI coding startup Windsurf fell apart on Friday, according to The Verge. — In a shocking twist, Google DeepMind … | Financial Times: |
Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B — Grok chatbot maker in early talks with investors to boost its value as much as 10 times from last year
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| Steve Newman / Second Thoughts: |
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster — UPDATE: on Wednesday July 16, I'll be holding a fireside chat in SF with the primary authors of the paper - register here to attend!
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LinkedIn: Yonas Bekele, Adrian Booth, Chris Baker, Sara Kubik, Gerben Wierda, and Fedir Skitsko
| Politico: |
French prosecutors open a criminal investigation into X over allegations that the company manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference” — The probe is based on complaints from a lawmaker and an unnamed senior civil servant.
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| Reuters: |
Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-weight model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks — Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI released a new open-source AI model on Friday, joining a wave of similar releases …
More: VentureBeat and WinBuzzer
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase told fintech companies it will start charging fees for access to customers' account data, which could drastically reshape the industry — The largest US bank has sent pricing sheets to data aggregators — which connect banks and fintechs — outlining the new charges …
More: The Information, American Banker, and Reuters
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| Tony Stubblebine / The Coach Life: |
Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 — Medium's recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health. — · — Just now — I'm gonna write the wonky post of Medium's turnaround.| Gregorio Sorgi / Politico: |
The European Commission drops plans to impose a digital tax on tech giants in its upcoming 2028-2034 budget proposal, amid ongoing EU-US trade negotiations — BRUSSELS ― The European Commission has dropped plans to levy a tax on digital companies, a move that hands victory to Donald Trump … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China — The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark …
More: The Decoder
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
HMD says it will “scale back” US operations, citing “a challenging geopolitical and economic environment”, and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices — Even Barbie couldn't save it. … HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand …
More: PCMag, 9to5Google, Liliputing, Thurrott, TechSpot, Android Police, How-To Geek, Android Headlines, Droid Life, Notebookcheck, and GSMArena.com
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it has reached AGI, “sufficient AGI” means $100B+ in profits, and Microsoft may not build AGI — A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Recording: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told staff that Intel is “not in the top 10 semiconductor companies” and it is “too late” to catch Nvidia in AI training — New CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that he doesn't consider Intel among the leading chip companies …
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LinkedIn: Richard Platt and Matthew S Smith
Forums: r/intel, r/TechHardware, r/hardware, and Slashdot
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Justin Sun says he is buying another $100M worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Trump — Crypto billionaire Justin Sun is buying another $100 million worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Donald Trump.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank will “start augmenting our workforce with Devin”, Cognition's AI software engineer, as Wall Street firms adopt AI — The newest hire at Goldman Sachs isn't human. — The bank is testing an autonomous software engineer … | Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile has received FCC and DOJ approval for its $4.4B acquisition of US Cellular, after agreeing to phase out DEI programs to comply with FCC policy — The approval comes after T-Mobile committed to eliminating diversity and inclusion programs to win the favor of the commission.| Ange Lavoipierre / ABC: |
At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing search engine companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users — In short: — Search engines are in line for the same age assurance technology behind the teen social media ban.
More: Breitbart, Biometric Update, and Mediaweek
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query — If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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