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Elon Musk withdraws his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman, filed in California in February 2024 over breach of contract and fiduciary duty — Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company's co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
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| Verne Kopytoff / Fortune: |
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati responded to Elon Musk's denouncement of Apple's OpenAI deal, saying OpenAI cares deeply about user privacy and security — A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is combining its AI-focused research centers in Toronto and Mountain View to improve operations; ex-Apple exec Murat Akbacak will run the group — - Company is combining Toronto and California research centers — Apple's Murat Akbacak will be leading the new division
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible — It only works for macOS 15 guests on macOS 15 hosts, but it's a big improvement. — We've written before about Apple's handy …
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Apple shares closed up 7.3% at $207.15 in their biggest one-day jump since November 2022, giving the company a $3.18T market cap, just under Microsoft's $3.22T — - The return to all-time high comes after Monday conference — Shares have underperformed most other big tech names this year
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
X says the platform will make Likes private for everyone this week, meaning users will no longer be able to see who liked someone else's post — Likes on the website will no longer cause PR crises for public figures. — Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Dutch agencies: 20K+ FortiGate systems were hacked in a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign in 2022 and 2023, at least two months before FortiGate noted the flaw — The Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) warned today that the impact of a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign unveiled earlier …
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| Usama Jawad / XDA Developers: |
Microsoft is removing the Custom GPT Builder feature from the consumer version of Copilot Pro on July 10, just three months after launching the feature — Microsoft has decided to retire GPT Builder in Copilot Pro for consumers, just three months after it began rolling out the service broadly.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to $14.29B, vs. $14.55B est., net income down 5% to $3.14B, announces deals with Google and OpenAI; ORCL jumps 7%+ — Oracle shares jumped as much as 9% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software maker announced cloud deals with Google and OpenAI …
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears over China using Middle Eastern countries to overcome US sanctions on AI chips are “valid” — But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
China's Ministry of Commerce issues a policy for expanding the nation's cross-border e-commerce industry and to promote the construction of offshore warehouses — Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad — China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a policy calling …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on co-authoring the “Attention is all you need” paper at Google, focusing on enterprise, whether there's an AI bubble, and more — Enterprise is the pathway to profit, Gomez says, but maybe don't ask it to do medicine quite yet.| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: MediaTek is designing an Arm-based chip for Windows laptops, slated to launch late in 2025 after Qualcomm's exclusive deal expires — Taiwanese chip design giant MediaTek (2454.TW) is developing an Arm-based personal computer chip that will run Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Windows operating system …
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
SK Telecom says South Korean AI chip developers Rebellions and Sapeon Korea are pursuing a merger, in a bid to boost chip share in the next two to three years — South Korean AI chip developers Rebellions Inc and Sapeon Korea Inc are pursuing a merger, Sapeon parent SK Telecom Co (017670.KS) …
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and The Korea Herald
| Diana Li / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Michael Dell plans to sell 10M Dell shares worth $1.3B, after selling $1.6B in shares earlier in 2024; Dell sold $1.7B in 1999 before the bubble burst — - Dell filed to sell 10 million shares now worth $1.3 billion — His hardware company surged this year on AI optimism
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
GameStop raised ~$2.14B from a share sale program capitalizing on a stock rally fueled by Keith Gill's YouTube return, selling 75M shares for ~$28.49 on average — - Company has raised more than $3 billion over the past month — Stock staged a mid-afternoon rally on Tuesday as volume rose
More: Barron's Online, Proactive, Blockonomi, BBC, and Benzinga
| Reuters: |
Brazil's government hires OpenAI to expedite the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits using AI, providing insights to the solicitor general's office — Brazil's government is hiring OpenAI to expedite the screening and analysis of thousands of lawsuits using artificial intelligence … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube plans to roll out its Thumbnail Test & Compare tool to all creators “in the coming weeks”, letting them test video thumbnails “evenly” across audiences — YouTube is preparing to roll out a new thumbnail testing feature to creators, which means you'll … | Charles Gorrivan / Bloomberg: |
Rubrik reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $187.3M, above $171.5M est., and ARR up 46% YoY to $856.1M, in the cybersecurity company's inaugural post-IPO earnings — - Rubrik's revenue and subscription revenue both beat forecasts — Firm went public at a volatile time for cybersecurity firms
More: Investor's Business Daily, Investing.com, Rubrik, and SiliconANGLE
| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds — The microblogging platform — India's first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.| Reuters: |
Four Indian retailer associations representing 90K grocery shops say monthly sales are dropping by 10% to 60% for some due to the rise of quick commerce apps — In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents detail how Elon Musk blurred boundaries with female employees at SpaceX, including having sex with an employee and a former intern — The billionaire founder had sex with an employee and a former intern, and asked a woman at his company to have his babies
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