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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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| 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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| New York Times: |
After Trump was shot, Elon Musk endorsed him and stepped up his own political speech in 100+ posts, entering uncharted territory for a social media leader — The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former president, as he drives political conversation on his site.
More: The Hill, Electrek, The Verge, Benzinga, Entrepreneur, Quartz, Newser, and Silicon Republic
| The Information: |
Sources: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have told a16z staff in recent days that they plan to make large donations to PACs supporting Donald Trump's campaign — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who run one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firms, have told the firm's employees …
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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens a formal investigation into Microsoft's Inflection AI investment, and sets a September 11 deadline on whether to open an in-depth investigation — - CMA said it needs to look further at the firm's partnership — Watchdog is taking closer order of Big Tech investment into AI
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| 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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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
US Senate preliminary report: Amazon Prime Day is a “major” cause of worker injuries, with Prime Day 2019 data showing “just under” 45 injuries per 100 workers — Amazon Prime Day, the 48-hour discount blitz that kicks off Tuesday, is a “major” cause of worker injuries …
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