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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates”  —  TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says
More: OpenAI, Wired, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Moneycontrol, CNBC, The Decoder, MarketWatch, Beyond Search, campaignlive.com, Bitcoin News, The Information, The Next Web, Blue Tech Wave Media, Inc.com, TBPN, Bloomberg, The Rundown AI, The San Francisco Standard, Business Today, crypto.news, BMI, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Forbes, PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, On my Om, Business Insider, TBPN on YouTube, The Hill, Business Insider, Agence France-Presse, Pulse 2.0, Tech in Asia, 9to5Mac, Implicator.ai, XDA Developers, Reuters, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @sama, @jordihays, @supbagholder, @hshaban, @pkafka, @davidu, @alexweprin, @austinc3301, @maxwelltani, @jbsdc, @gazorp5, @thezvi, @ajs, @pkafka, @jason_kint, @mukund, @jason, @eric_seufert, @levie, @mikeisaac, @maxwelltani, @mikeisaac, @buccocapital, @dseetharaman, @neilcybart, @jessicalessin, @mikeisaac, @samfbiddle, @sarafischer, @cjc, @ericnewcomer, @ti_morse, @shakeelhashim, @absoluttig, @jordihays, @loudmouthjulia, @hadas_gold, @joannastern, @eriktorenberg, @tbpn, @alexrkonrad, @ericnewcomer, @miles_brundage, @aagave, @bdanweiss, @samfbiddle, @lindsmccallum, @taylorlorenz, @mikeisaac, @danshipper, @hadas_gold, @jaltma, @ericnewcomer, @mjnblack, @ricburton, @mgsiegler, @pitdesi, @austin_rief, @kevinakwok, @mikebutcher, @rpnickson, @edzitron, @jessicalessin, @willmanidis, @scobleizer, @nicholas_shawa, @dylanabruscato, @zebulgar, @dylanabruscato, @andrewcurran_, and @johncoogan
LinkedIn: Justin Jackson, Simon Owens, Yossi J Levi, Jaspreet Singh, and Dylan Abruscato
Bluesky: @eidyngray.scot, @carnage4life, @fasterthanli.me, @katie-drummond, @harrymccracken.com, @neillewisjr, @brbarrett, @paris.nyc, @alexshultz, @isolyth.dev, @caseynewton, @doubleohkevin, @joshsternberg.com, and @parkerortolani.com.  Threads: @karissabe
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
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George Hammond / Financial Times:
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent  —  ChatGPT-maker moves into broadcasting with deal for TBPN after it had pledged to abandon ‘side-quests’
Matt Mullenweg:
Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress  —  So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.
The Keyword:
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license  —  Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.  Purpose-built for advanced reasoning …
More: Google DeepMind, Android Developers Blog, NVIDIA, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Blockonomi, WinBuzzer, The Hans India, Ars Technica, crypto.news, Hindustan Times, Digit, TheNeuron, Latent.Space, Business Standard, Run Gemma 4 locally …, Google Open Source Blog, Mashable, Unsloth, Google AI for Developers, TestingCatalog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Register, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, NVIDIA Technical Blog, The Verge, Neowin, Techstrong.ai, Implicator.ai, Simon Willison's Weblog, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, and 9to5Google
X: @demishassabis, @clementdelangue, @rasbt, @kimmonismus, @matvelloso, @artificialanlys, @arena, @jeffdean, @googledeepmind, @googleai, @clattner_llvm, @google, @xenovacom, @artificialanlys, @ggerganov, @mweinbach, @qualcomm, @erikvoorhees, @docker, @mweinbach, @hamandcheese, @simonw, @sriramk, @clementdelangue, @gregisenberg, @atomic_chat_hq, @osanseviero, @cyb3rops, @measure_plan, @ai, @googledevs, @nvidiarobotics, @jocarrasqueira, @preethilahoti, @arena, @jacalulu, @kaggle, @dynamicwebpaige, @mweinbach, @mweinbach, @itspaulai, @googledevs, @clementdelangue, @arm, @minchoi, @rseroter, @conorbronsdon, @kakatohesss, @dorialexander, @natolambert, @googleaidevs, @nvidiaaidev, @googlegemma, @officiallogank, @clmt, @o_lacombe, @chanduthota, @androidstudio, @kimmonismus, @nvidiarobotics, @kaggle, @i, @lmsysorg, @mayhem4markets, @sundarpichai, @triswarkentin, @googlegemma, @jeffdean, @googlecloudtech, @dynamicwebpaige, @demishassabis, @osanseviero, @teksedge, @mweinbach, @_philschmid, @scaling01, @thorwebdev, @androiddev, @googleoss, @googlegemma, and @nic_carter
LinkedIn: Ján Švehla, Kari Ann Briski, Ed Brandman, Eric Fraser, Ravin Kumar, M Mohan, and Gus Martins.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/StableDiffusion, r/ollama, r/artificial, r/Bard, r/Android, and Slashdot
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View:
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically  —  Can we teach machines to feel?  Short answer: We don't know.  But we can teach them to sound like they do.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option  —  Meta has told members of its independent Oversight Board that the company may stop funding it after 2028, sources familiar with the situation told Platformer.
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs  —  Cinemersive Labs will join the company's Visual Computing Group.  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand …
Alex Harring / CNBC:
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the “exclusive” authority to regulate such markets  —  A federal commission on Wednesday announced lawsuits against three states over its ability to exclusively regulate prediction markets.
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others  —  San Francisco-headquartered startup Noon has emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI deal “unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence”, and more  —  Its new transcription model is a step towards those goals, says Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls “the longest commercial broadcast in history”

Peter Walker / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she and her department will stop using X because the site favors “abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”

Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Three men have been found not guilty of murdering the journalist Lyra McKee in 2019; the New IRA claimed responsibility for the killing

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Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
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