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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
In preliminary findings, the EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over concerns that it gave Teams an “undue advantage” by bundling it with Office  —  Allegations that software giant is ‘tying’ its video app to Office are the first such case against it in more than a decade
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo drops its waitlist in San Francisco, letting anyone download its app and hail a robotaxi; in Phoenix, Waymo has been open to the public since October 2020  —  ‘Simply download the app and ride.’  —  The wait(list) is over.  —  Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to anyone who wants to ride in San Francisco.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
The RIAA sues AI music services Suno and Udio over alleged mass copyright infringement and claims they are trying to “hide the full scope of their infringement”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Etched, which is building Sohu, an inferencing chip that only runs transformer AI models, raised a $120M Series A, bringing its total funding to $125.36M  —  As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google will hold a Pixel event on August 13 at 10AM PT in Mountain View, where the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Pixel Watch 3 are expected  —  Google this morning announced that its annual Pixel hardware event will be taking place on August 13.
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Users of the popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities changed a few days ago and aren't as fun as they once were  —  The company denied making “major changes,” but users report noticeable differences in the quality of their chatbot conversations.
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Stability AI says it closed a new funding round; sources: investors committed $80M to take over the company, and some suppliers have forgiven debt obligations  —  Stability AI raised $100 million-plus in 2022 but is being recapitalized and aims to build a business around image-generation tool
Taras Buria / Neowin:
Windows 11 changed the initial setup process to enable the automatic backup of folders to OneDrive without asking permission, annoying and confusing many users  —  Microsoft has made OneDrive slightly more annoying for Windows 11 users.  Quietly and without any announcement …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Threads will let users like and see replies to their posts showing on federated social networks like Mastodon, and expands fediverse support to 100+ countries  —  Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Monday.
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Meta's Quest v67 PTC update adds an experimental option to let users freely position and resize 2D windows as well as “take any window fullscreen”  —  Quest v67 will finally let you freely position 2D windows, the Public Test Channel build reveals.  —  What Is the Public Test Channel (PTC)?

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Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge:
Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2024 on July 16 and July 17 in 23 countries, including the US, the UK, and Japan; India will get a Prime Day later this summer
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Sources: the US is probing China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom for possibly providing Americans' data to Beijing via the companies' US cloud services
The Information:
Sources: Google has been developing a product for creating customizable chatbots, which could be modeled on celebrities, and plans to launch it as soon as 2024
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple rejected Meta's overtures to integrate Llama into the iPhone months ago, in part because it sees Meta's privacy practices as not stringent enough
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Sources: Amazon is working on an AI chatbot, codenamed Metis, designed to compete directly with ChatGPT; source: Metis is tentatively set to launch in September
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
In preliminary findings, the EU says Apple's anti-steering developer rules breach the DMA; the EU is also probing if Apple's developer fees comply with EU rules
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