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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
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| 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.
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| 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 — - Apple has been looking to forge agreements to use AI chatbots — Report indicated that Apple and Meta are in discussions
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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 — As expected, Amazon's annual sales event for Prime subscribers will once again take place in mid-July.
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| 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.
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Bright Machines, which automates manufacturing with AI, ML, and robotics, raised a $126M Series C from Nvidia, Microsoft, and others, including $20M in debt — Software and robotics startup Bright Machines raised $106 million in a Series C funding round that included Nvidia (NVDA.O) …
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| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
A look at the privacy concerns surrounding women's health apps and services; PitchBook: femtech startups raised almost $4.9B between March 2021 and March 2024 — US 2022 abortion ruling has heightened concerns over the safety of women's healthcare trackers| 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 Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access …
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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 …
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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 — Google wants chatbots that people can hang with—not just pelt with questions. — The search engine giant has been developing …
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| Reuters: |
EvolutionaryScale releases AI models called ESM3 to help engineer novel proteins and raised a $142M seed led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Lux Capital — EvolutionaryScale, an artificial intelligence startup focused on biology, said Tuesday it had raised $142 million in seed funding …
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| 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.
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| Associated Press: |
With an economy hobbled by Western sanctions and inflation, desperate Iranians are flocking to “tap-to-earn” crypto mini apps in Telegram like Hamster Kombat — Cab drivers and bikers tap away furiously on their mobile phones as they wait at red lights in the Iranian capital during an early June heatwave.
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