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Ex-employee Andrew Harris says Microsoft for years dismissed his warnings of an Active Directory flaw that led to the 2021 SolarWinds hack; Harris left in 2020 — Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation's most sensitive computer networks.
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Sources: Apple isn't paying OpenAI to add ChatGPT into its OSes and aims to eventually make money from AI by striking revenue-sharing deals with chatbot makers — - The iPhone maker isn't paying OpenAI to use the chatbot — Apple announced OpenAI agreement as part of AI push this week
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After a major leak of unannounced games, Epic releases an update “so third-party tools can't surface any new unpublished product titles” from its Games Store — [Update] After publishing our story, we received a statement from Epic on this matter (via an Epic PR agency):
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Long-time Android Engineering VP Dave Burke steps down to explore “AI/bio” projects at Alphabet; sources say the Platforms & Devices team is undergoing a reorg — Back in April, Google announced a merger of the Platforms & Ecosystems and Devices & Services divisions.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony rolls out an update to Discord on the PS5 that integrates the app into the console's dashboard and lets users join voice calls directly, starting in Asia — Sony is improving its Discord integration on the PS5 so that you can join voice calls directly from the console.| Financial Times: |
OpenAI has expanded its global affairs team from three at the start of 2023 to 35 now, stationed strategically in locations where AI legislation is advanced — ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
How China is testing more driverless cars than any other country, with 16+ cities letting 19+ companies test vehicles on public roads, aided by government help — Assisted driving systems and robot taxis are becoming more popular with government help, as cities designate large areas for testing on public roads.| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Sources: at an all-hands, X CEO Linda Yaccarino urged staff to discuss xAI's Grok with advertisers and said little about the recently delayed promotions process — During an internal all-hands meeting led by X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Wednesday, concerned employees tuned in to hear …
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Japan passes a law that prohibits Apple and Google from preventing the sale of third-party apps and services that compete with native iOS and Android offerings — Japan's parliament enacted Wednesday a law to promote competition in smartphone app stores by restricting tech giants Apple Inc …
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Samsung cuts AI chip production time by ~20% after integrating memory chip, foundry, and chip packaging, and expects chip industry revenue to hit $778B by 2028 — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said its contract manufacturing business plans to offer a one-stop shop for clients to get their AI chips …
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| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Yahoo debuts a revamped version of its free Yahoo News app, powered by Artifact's AI tech, after acquiring the Instagram co-founders' news app in April 2024 — Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram's cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year.
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| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
MLCommons shares results from its MLPerf 4.0 training benchmarks, which added Google's and Intel's AI accelerators; Nvidia H100 GPUs topped all nine benchmarks — For years, Nvidia has dominated many machine learning benchmarks, and now there are two more notches in its belt.
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| Catherine Perloff / Adweek: |
Oracle plans to shut down Oracle Advertising, as revenue in the ad business came in at $300M in the 2024 fiscal year, down from a reported $2B in 2022 — The business generated $300 million in revenue in the 2024 fiscal year, down from a reported $2 billion in 2022| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the $199+ Galaxy Watch FE in a single 40mm size with a 1.2" OLED display, Exynos W920 chip, NFC, GPS, and 16GB of storage, on sale from June 24 — Samsung just announced it's launching a third smartwatch, the Galaxy Watch FE. It's meant to be the company's new entry-level smartwatch … | Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Sources detail Amazon's struggles to build a new generative AI-powered Alexa, including privacy concerns keeping Alexa's teams from using Anthropic's Claude — “Alexa, let's chat.” — With that phrase, David Limp, at the time Amazon's head of devices and services, showed off …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
AI search engine Perplexity says it was working on revenue-sharing deals with publishers when Forbes staff accused it of plagiarizing Forbes' White Stork scoop — The Scoop — Perplexity, the AI search startup that recently came under fire from Forbes for allegedly misusing its content …
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