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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
TeamViewer warns that its corporate environment was breached on June 26, and attributes the cyberattack to the Russian hacking group APT29 aka Midnight Blizzard — The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday …
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| Eliza Gkritsi / Euractiv: |
Margrethe Vestager says Apple's decision not to launch its AI features in the EU is a “stunning, open declaration” of the company's anticompetitive behavior — Apple's decision not to launch its own artificial intelligence (AI) features in the EU is a “stunning declaration” …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple launches the Vision Pro in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, the first time the device has been officially available outside of the US — Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations across China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.| The Information: |
Sources: Apple may use electrically induced adhesive debonding to make batteries easier to replace, starting with one iPhone 16 model, to comply with EU rules — Under pressure from regulators in Europe and elsewhere, Apple in recent years has taken small steps toward making the iPhone easier for consumers to repair.
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| Wired: |
Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so — AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Surface Pro Copilot+ review: the best Microsoft tablet yet, with a versatile Flex keyboard and decent AI features, but has noticeable heat and fan noise issues — Microsoft finally solved the Windows on Arm dilemma. — It's taken 12 years, but Microsoft has finally made an Arm-powered Surface tablet …
More: Wired, Axios, CNET, Tom's Guide, PCWorld, and Laptop Mag
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Kleiner Perkins has raised more than $2B for two new funds: $825M for a fund targeting young startups and $1.2B for a later-stage fund — The Silicon Valley firm will look for startups leveraging AI for growth — Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has raised more than $2 billion in new cash for two new funds.
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| Yasemin Saplakoglu / Quanta Magazine: |
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures — When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild. Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”
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LinkedIn: Mark Belan, Karl Massey, FRSA, Anastassis Perrakis, and Dr. Markus Düttmann. Forums: Hacker News
| Ben Goggin / NBC News: |
ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot seemingly drew on conservative misinformation to repeat a false claim about CNN's debate broadcast being on a “1-2 minute delay” — The AI programs seemingly drew on conservative misinformation posted just hours earlier to generate their answers.| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Q&A with the VP of Amazon Games on focusing on AAA games over mobile games, Amazon's transmedia IP strategy, AI's effect on the industry, monetization, and more — Amazon Games has been quiet for the past few years. So quiet you might not have even known Amazon was working on video games …
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| Financial Times: |
The EU explores an antitrust probe into Microsoft's OpenAI deal, after the EC dropped a merger review due to a lack of evidence that Microsoft controls OpenAI — EU executive arm drops merger review into US tech companies' alliance — Brussels is preparing for an antitrust investigation …
More: Associated Press, Bloomberg, Reuters, Tech Xplore, and Politico
| Reuters: |
Baidu unveils an upgraded version of its AI model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, and says its chatbot Ernie Bot has reached 300M users since its launch — Chinese search engine giant Baidu(9888.HK) on Friday unveiled an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo …
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