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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users — One employee uses it to automate his weekly parking requests at OpenAI's San Francisco office.
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Forums: r/OpenAI and r/accelerate
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files — It's a PowerPoint generator! It's a date-night planner! It's ... another agent from OpenAI. — Isa Fulford, the research lead … | Dan Shipper / Every: |
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| New York Times: |
Substack raised a $100M Series C from Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds its social network and warms up to ads — Substack, originally a newsletter service, says its app now has millions of users interacting with its creators.
More: BetaKit, Reuters, Capital Brief, The Substack Post, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Next in Media, Feed Me, Bloomberg, The Rebooting, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety
| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over alleged Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial — Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms (META.O) agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey invests $10M in “and Other Stuff”, a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub — Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn't just vibe-coding new social apps, like Bitchat and Sun Day …
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Forums: r/fediverse and r/technology
| Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third Arizona plants “by several quarters” to meet chip demand from US clients — TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says it is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
| Michael Teo Van Runkle / Ars Technica: |
Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more — CarPlay Ultra takes over the main instrument display as well as the infotainment. — For the 2025 model year … | Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google says threat actors are breaching fully patched, end-of-life cybersecurity company SonicWall's appliances and stealing sensitive data from organizations — Threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by breaching end-of-life appliances made by cybersecurity company SonicWall.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections — Teens will have to prove they are older than 13 to make ‘Trusted Connections’ they can chat more freely with.
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Big Tech's acquihires of AI startups, like Meta's $14.3B Scale AI deal, leaves investors with modest or no returns and may further entrench Big Tech's dominance — Meta and Google's AI talent grab may lead to more sustainable tech companies. — If you're a venture capitalist … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with two new plans, including Audiobooks+ that offers more listening hours, in the UK and 10+ countries — Spotify on Thursday announced an expansion of its premium audiobooks service, with two new plans that offer additional listening hours … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber partners with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro to deploy 20K+ robotaxis in the US over six years; Uber plans to invest $300M in Lucid and more in Nuro — The companies plan to launch 20,000 robotaxis in the US over the next six years, starting with the first city in 2026.
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Forums: r/MVIS, r/Futurology, r/technology, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing — French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google.
More: Mistral AI, SiliconANGLE, Livemint, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and AI News
| Reuters: |
The US House votes to advance three crypto bills following over nine hours of private talks on July 16, a day after President Trump intervened to save the bills — The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives cleared key procedural hurdles on crypto legislation on Wednesday …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta names long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads, starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011 — Longtime Meta executive Connor Hayes has been named head of Threads, Axios has learned, marking a significant milestone for the two-year old product.
More: TechCrunch and TVNewsCheck
| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn; Lovable was founded in 2023 — Lovable, a Swedish artificial intelligence startup that streamlines software development, raised a $200 million fundraising round, making it Europe's newest unicorn.
More: TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Analytics India Magazine, PitchBook, Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, and Silicon Canals. LinkedIn: Mattias Miksche
| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Hadrian, which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts, raised a $260M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$500M — Investors are continuing to rally behind the call to reindustrialize American industry, this time by building out a $260 million war chest …
More: CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Hadrian, Arizona Business Know How, and CNBC
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI — A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Bloomberg Law, WinBuzzer, IPWatchdog.com, Breitbart, and Fox Business. Forums: Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs, including the flagship $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with 96 cores, set for July 23 — The Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series starts at $1,649 and ships on July 23rd. … AMD's latest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series …
More: AMD, Tom's Hardware, VideoCardz.com, TechPowerUp, Guru3D, and Notebookcheck. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips — Some administration officials worry China could get access to advanced Nvidia chips and are holding up efforts to iron out the agreement
More: WinBuzzer, Barron's Online, TechCrunch, Raw Story, Forexlive, and Yahoo Finance
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts — The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users may eventually pay thousands for a single prompt, and more — I'm Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. I'm hosting our Thursday episodes while Nilay is out on parental leave.
More: Computerworld, Mashable, CoinGeek, Android Authority, and Business Insider
| Irina Ivanova / Fortune: |
Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from ~3% now, and has a goal to eliminate static pricing entirely — Each passenger has their specific price, and AI is helping Delta find it. — Delta has a long-term strategy to boost …
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Exponential View, and KnowTechie
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X: @panomics, @web_begole, @julesbrainstorm, and @_zeets
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Forums: Hacker News, r/delta, r/technews, r/enshittification, r/technology, and r/delta
| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment — A popular and contentious game, Revenge on Gold Diggers, sheds light on misogyny, inequality and the feeling among many men that they are economic victims.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: in a Trump meeting last week, Jensen Huang argued US chips should be the global standard and was backed by David Sacks, who disliked Biden's chip rules — With help from a longtime Silicon Valley investor turned White House insider, Mr. Huang got the administration to reverse course on restrictions.| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google's Veo 3 video generation model launches on the Gemini API, with an eight-second video costing $6, making it one of the most expensive AI video options — Google's Veo 3 video generation model is now available through the Gemini API, with a price point that puts it among the more expensive options for AI video.| Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter: |
AI is already transforming Hollywood, as studios and production companies experiment with AI tools while labor groups warn of job losses and other consequences — The technology is already transforming the industry — and could forever change the entertainment we consume. But the battle to contain it has just begun.| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories — Firestorm Labs plans to move into a larger production facility, grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories and cook …
More: The Voice of 3D Printing, Pulse 2.0, and Washington Technology
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 — - XMTP developer Ephemera has raised $20 million Series B at a $300 million equity and $750 million network valuation, with USV's Fred Wilson joining its board.Sponsor Posts
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