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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus  —  OpenAI is launching a revamped $100/month ChatGPT subscription aimed at Codex users.  Here's how it compares to OpenAI's existing plans and what it includes.
Kenyatta Thomas / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF says it is leaving X, as “X is no longer where the fight is happening” and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago  —  After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year  —  Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets — from AI and custom chips …
Juby Babu / Reuters:
Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying its data could fall “into the hands of America's enemies” and citing a mass shooter's ChatGPT use  —  Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday launched an investigation into OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Meta begins removing Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18  —  Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced Stargate UK in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale  —  OpenAI said it is pausing its Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project in the UK, as it reins in ambitious spending plans ahead …
Callie Holtermann / New York Times:
Gallup survey of 1,500+ people in the US aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI fell from 27% to 18% over the past year; 22% use GenAI daily and 29% weekly  —  A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices  —  Controls are rolling out worldwide to stop videos playing alongside music and podcasts. … Spotify is adding new toggles to stop …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031  —  Meta has committed to spending an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, which comes on top …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork, previously available as a “research preview”, generally available to all paid plans, and adds six features for enterprise use  —  Claude Cowork, available on macOS, is losing the “research preview” label today as Anthropic introduces enterprise capabilities.
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims  —  An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real …
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy:
A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains  —  Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube launches a Shorts feature that lets creators generate photorealistic AI avatars using a “live selfie” recording of their face and voice, powered by Veo  —  YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds like them for use in Shorts.
Juro Osawa / The Information:
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released AI video model HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks at the top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0  —  Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1., which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI  —  Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space.  Its next move?  Powering physical AI.
Reuters:
Sources: Anthropic is weighing the possibility of designing its own chips, but it has yet to commit to a design or put together a dedicated team for the project  —  Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, three sources said …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to debut a native app within ChatGPT, letting viewers discover its 300K+ movies or shows via a conversational interface  —  Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS  —  Posting Voice Notes publicly on X may no longer be possible, but you can now share audio messages within X's direct messaging system, X Chat, once again.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Paramount shareholder lawsuit claims David and Larry Ellison made an illegal deal with Trump in trade for approval of the WBD merger, promising to revamp CNN

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brendan Carr proposes repealing the national ownership cap, which restricts amassing TV stations that cover more than 39% of households, and sets an Aug. 6 vote

Corey G. Johnson / ProPublica:
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