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Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose — In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements

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Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:

Outspent by tech companies, universities are racing to stay relevant in AI research, as some academics turn their focus to less computing-intensive areas of AI — Outspent by Big Tech, some academics are focusing on research that requires less computing power, even as they try to build more of it

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Hugh Langley / Business Insider:

Source: Google and Samsung's XR headset, codenamed Moohan and initially planned for Q1 2024, is now set for March 2025, with a developer version in October 2024 — - Google recently reshuffled the ranks to consolidate teams working in augmented reality. — The release of Google …

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Matthew Connatser / The Register:

Intel has been facing mounting pressure to fix Raptor Lake CPU stability issues since February 2024; a game studio accuses Intel of selling “defective” CPUs — High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD

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Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:

Galaxy Digital: investment in crypto by VCs and others rose to $3.2B in Q2 2024, the highest amount in a quarter since Q4 2022, and up from $2.5B in Q1 2024 — Plus, updates on former FTX executives and PayPal's stablecoin … Crypto start-ups trying to raise money have found it very difficult over the past few years.

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Anuj Ahooja / augment:

Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform — It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.

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Steven Levy / Wired:

A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after its near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI — After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much. And don't ask it to license its archive to AI.

More: Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst. Mastodon: @jessamyn@glammr.us and @jessamyn@glammr.us

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

Arkham: the German government appears to have sold its last bitcoin on July 12, after authorities seized ~50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, in January 2024 from suspects — - The German government had received 50,000 Bitcoin in January — Bitcoin's price has been choppy in recent weeks on worries

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Delphine Strauss / Financial Times:

Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts — Campaign is part of tech giant's long-running global battle to prevent employees from organising

More: Jacobin, Tribune, and BBC

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Wes Davis / The Verge:

Apple approves the first PC emulator for iOS, UTM SE, weeks after initially rejecting and barring it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the EU — Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected …

More: UTM SE on App Store and NewsBytes

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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content — A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …

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