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Sources: Google tests an AI tool to produce news stories, pitching the service to the NYT, WaPo, News Corp, and other outlets as a helpmate for journalists — The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
A study claims GPT-4's outputs became worse between March and June 2023, but some experts are not convinced and urge OpenAI to be less opaque with its AI models — Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture. — On Tuesday, researchers …
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| New York Times: |
Kevin Mitnick, a hacker best known for his crime spree in the 1990s, who later became a consultant, writer, and public speaker after leaving prison, dies at 59 — Mr. Mitnick, best known for a crime spree during the 1990s that involved the theft of thousands of data files and credit card numbers, died from pancreatic cancer.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC reports Q2 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$15.68B and net profit down 23.3% YoY to ~$5.9B, the first quarterly decline since 2019, as all non-AI chip sales lag — Taiwan chipmaker logs quarterly net profit drop on consumer electronics slump — Sluggish demand for smartphones …
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Apple threatens to remove FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security under a proposed security bill amendment, dubbed a “snooper's charter” — Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.
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| Lisa Richwine / Reuters: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 2.7% YoY to $8.2B, vs. $8.3B est., net income up 3.3% YoY to $1.5B, 5.9M net new subs, and a Q3 forecast below est.; NFLX down 8%+ — Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) handily beat Wall Street earnings forecasts on Wednesday as a password-sharing crackdown …
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| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
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| Arun Padmanabhan / Moneycontrol: |
In Llama 2's commercial terms, Meta says companies with 700M+ MAUs must request a license, and users are prohibited from utilizing Llama 2 to improve other LLMs — Although Meta has announced that it will open-source its LLM and allow free usage for commercial and research purposes …
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers identify 200K+ OpenAI credentials for sale on the dark web in the form of stealer logs, as hackers show an increased interest in generative AI tools — Threat actors are showing an increased interest in generative artificial intelligence tools, with hundreds of thousands … | C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: |
Google launches Nearby Share for Windows, letting users transfer files between PCs and Android devices close to each other, after debuting a beta in March 2023 — Anyone can download Nearby Share for Windows now, but your future laptop might come with it pre-installed. — • — TL;DR
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple built Ajax, a framework for building LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and is planning an AI announcement in 2024 — - Company builds large language models and internal chatbot — Executives haven't decided how to release tools to consumers
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
Sources: North Korea-linked hackers breached JumpCloud in late June and used their access to target crypto clients; JumpCloud says <5 customers were impacted — A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated an American IT management company and used it as a springboard to target … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Adobe releases an emergency ColdFusion security update that fixes a zero-day RCE flaw used in the wild, after its July 11 fix was marked incomplete by Rapid7 — Adobe released an emergency ColdFusion security update that fixes critical vulnerabilities, including a fix for a new zero-day exploited in attacks.| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Microsoft's 1,000%+ stock rise under Satya Nadella, most recently driven by AI, takes his total windfall to above $1B, following Tim Cook's Apple arc — - Figure includes equity grants, salary, bonuses and dividends — Haul puts executive in exclusive club of corporate titans| Gijong Lee / The Elec: |
Sources: Samsung begins developing a smart ring, the so-called Galaxy Ring, using circuit boards made by Japan's Meiko; the launch date remains uncertain — Device to offer health information to wearers Samsung has started the development of a new smart device that will come in the form of a ring, TheElec has learned.
| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
The US Army says Microsoft plans to deliver improved goggles by July 31 for intensive testing ahead of a decision on their deployment or cancelation by 2025 — - Delivery by July 31 would start three rounds of soldier tests — Device based on HoloLens may yield a $21.9 billion program| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
A look at Gigi Sohn's unsuccessful nomination to the FCC, announced in October 2021 before she withdrew nearly 500 days later after a fierce opposition campaign — ‘Dark money’ and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission.| Wall Street Journal: |
A US House committee plans to investigate GGV, GSR, Walden International, and Qualcomm Ventures over their VC investments in China in AI, chips, and quantum — House select committee says American firms' investments contributed to China's military buildup and rights abuses
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
In an earnings call, Elon Musk says Tesla is open to licensing its FSD software and hardware to other carmakers and is “already in discussions” with a major OEM — “We're not trying to keep this to ourselves” ~ Tesla CEO Elon Musk. — In a surprise announcement during Tesla's …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to begin gradually enabling Privacy Sandbox APIs for Chrome developers on July 24 after releasing Chrome 115, a milestone in phasing out cookies — The first phase of Google's long-standing plan to kill third-party cookies in Chrome is nearly complete.| Yiwen Lu / New York Times: |
Cerebras launches the first of three supercomputers for Abu Dhabi-based G42 as part of its Condor Galaxy network; G42 trained an Arabic GPT model in April 2023 — The new supercomputer, made by the Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras, was unveiled as the A.I. boom drives demand for chips and computing power.
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