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At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is “not doable”, calling for “common sense” AI and IP rules — Donald Trump said that AI companies can't be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/inthenews
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At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was “very hard” and “I learned the facts here” — President Donald Trump said he considered attempting to break up Nvidia Corp. to increase competition …
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Forums: r/technology, r/FreeSpeech, and r/technology
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam — The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.
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Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/Steam, r/gamedev, r/pcgaming, r/pcgaming, and r/Games
| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, vs. $94B est., net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12% — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
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More: The Streamable, TVNewsCheck, Tubefilter, 9to5Google, The Hollywood Reporter, Advanced Television, Shacknews, and Variety. LinkedIn: Jennifer Elias
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Microsoft says the “Storm-2603” group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400+ — A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O) server software now involves the deployment …
More: The Record, Nextgov/FCW, Tom's Hardware, WeLiveSecurity, Metacurity, Help Net Security, Wired, Newser, ITPro, Business Today, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, Windows Report, WinBuzzer, The Cyber Express, and The Hacker News. Forums: Slashdot
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with “major Android smartphones” finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone — But will Android support go further than the magnet-free Qi2 Ready? … The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers — The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount — Google announced on Thursday that it's launching a new AI feature that lets users virtually try on clothes.| Financial Times: |
Analysis and sources: $1B+ of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May — Roaring black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API — OpenAI's open language model is still arriving ahead of GPT-5. … Earlier this year, I heard that Microsoft engineers were preparing server capacity … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google's lead for Home and Nest Anish Kattukaran apologizes for Assistant reliability issues on home devices and announces “major improvements” later this year — Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years.
More: PCWorld, T3, Android Headlines, PCMag, Neowin, Android Authority, Android Police, and Mashable
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Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013 — 1.6 million units were sold during its launch month in the U.S., and 82% of buyers also got Mario Kart World.
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Forums: r/xbox, r/nintendo, r/gaming, r/technology, r/hardware, r/NintendoSwitch2, r/gadgets, and r/Superstonk
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now — The new Colorsoft costs $30 less and comes with half the storage than the model Amazon released last year.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 — Links created with Google's URL shortener will return a 404 error starting August 25th. … Google will officially deprecate links generated … | Sarah Owermohle / CNN: |
Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work — White Oak, Md. CNN — To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived …
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators — Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found …
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Mastodon: @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org and @malwaretech@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/technology and r/ukpolitics
| Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration — In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry. But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Figma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 — Figma Make is out of beta and no longer reserved just for Figma's full-access subscribers. … Figma Make, the prompt-to-app coding tool … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M+ at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March — The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf. — SaveComment
Bluesky: @rashis
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
In Yuga Labs vs. Ryder Ripps, an appeals court rules that NFTs are “goods” that can get trademark protection but sends the case back to a lower court — - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mixed ruling in the longstanding case between Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photos — Photo-to-video lets you take an existing still image in your library and transform it into a “dynamic” six-second clip …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company, acquires Indiegogo, which has 38M members and will change its pricing to be in line with Gamefound's flat 5% fee — Both platforms will continue to exist separately. … Indiegogo is being acquired by the board game crowdfunding platform Gamefound … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches “AI colleagues” that it says can work and interact just like human employees — Leena AI Inc., the developer of an employee-facing agentic artificial intelligence assistant, today announced the launch …
More: Silicon Republic
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers — A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.
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| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
A profile of Swedish AI coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup ever, reaching $100M+ in annualized revenue in eight months — ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE | For decades coders have rushed to ship the minimum viable product. Lovable CEO Anton Osika (right) … | Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Source: Founders Fund and Dragoneer have committed to investing $1B+ each in OpenAI's second, $30B installment of its $40B round announced in March — As OpenAI tries to raise a record-breaking $40 billion in equity funding this year, it's getting help from more of its existing investors.| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju on taking over from Emad Mostaque, his movie background, data and copyright, working with creative industries, and more — The boss of StablityAI insists film industry fears about the impact of the popular image-generating model are misplaced| Reuters: |
Sources and a document: China aims to build a national network to sell surplus computing power and address an oversupply caused by a three-year data center boom — China is taking steps to build a network to sell computing power and curb the unwieldy growth of data centres after thousands … Sponsor Posts
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