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Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset containing YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, MrBeast, and MIT — Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data …
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| Laura Waxmann / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Elon Musk says that X's headquarters will move to Austin, after he protested a new California law that bans schools' transgender notification policies — San Francisco real estate market participants confirmed last week that a majority of the Market Street headquarters of X Corp. …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
On their podcast, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why they are backing Trump, say Trump is pro-crypto, Biden's overregulation harms startups, and more — Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, says he's been a Democrat most of his life.
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| The Information: |
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say Trump is the right choice for “Little Tech”; sources say they plan to make large donations to PACs supporting his campaign — Venture capital bigwigs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have told staff at Andreessen Horowitz that they plan …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A look at draft AI policies from Trump allies at the America First Policy Institute and the Heritage Foundation that target “burdensome” AI regulations — The plan to ‘make America first in AI’ and roll back ‘burdensome regulations’ would favor Silicon Valley investors, who are now flocking to support the former president
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former head of Tesla's autopilot unit, unveils Eureka Labs, a “new kind of school” aiming to support teachers with AI — Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs …
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| Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump says “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition”, and “if you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram” and “that's Zuckerberg” — It's late June, and Donald Trump is plotting his next presidency in the gilded offseason isolation of the Mar-a-Lago Club.
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| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold details, including photos, battery sizes, and charging speeds, leak from Taiwanese regulator NCC — The upcoming Pixels leak yet again — this time giving us a real life look at the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. — •
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Forums: r/Android, r/PixelFold, and r/GooglePixel
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Mistral launches two 7B LLMs: Codestral Mamba, for code generation, based on the Mamba architecture, and Mathstral, for math reasoning and scientific discovery — The well-funded French AI startup Mistral, known for its powerful open source AI models, launched two new entries in its growing family …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Taboola CEO Adam Singolda says the company has struck a deal with Apple to power native advertising in the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps; TBLA jumps ~5% — - Taboola's effort to build trust with Apple across its various teams and stakeholders was “a multiyear process,'” Singolda said.
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X: @mediaevan, @adamsingolda, @mcelhearn, @om, @lessin, @om, and @alexguichet. LinkedIn: Jay Friedman. Forums: r/ios
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Search Labs is ending its Notes experiment, which debuted in December 2023 as a way to let users leave “helpful tips about an article” directly on Search — Back in November, Google Search Labs launched a Notes experiment and it's now coming to an end with the feature ultimately not launching.| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
OnePlus unveils the $550 OnePlus Pad 2 with a 12.1-inch 3K LCD display, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, and a 6.49mm thin design, shipping August 1 — The OnePlus Pad 2 has officially launched alongside a number of other Nord-series devices at the OnePlus Summer Launch event in Milan, Italy.
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