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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers  —  Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
US v. Google: a judge says Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and it used exclusive agreements to raise prices without any competition  —  A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's shift to AI could allow it to handle searches via Siri and AI chatbots instead of web browsers, softening the blow from the Google antitrust ruling
John Schulman / @johnschulman2:
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research”  —  I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
The Information:
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he's taking a sabbatical through the end of the year; source: OpenAI product leader Peter Deng, who joined in 2023, has left  —  Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.
New York Times:
In an email to staff, Linda Yaccarino says X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to San Jose offices and a new Palo Alto office shared with xAI  —  Elon Musk, X's owner, has clashed with California's leaders and has said the social media platform would move its headquarters to Texas.
Aditya Soni / Reuters:
Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon shares fell 4%+, Nvidia fell 6%, and Microsoft and Meta fell ~3% amid worries about a potential US recession and massive AI spending  —  Apple (AAPL.O) and other heavyweight companies sold off on Monday as U.S. recession fears and Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKa.N) …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Bitcoin dropped below $50,000, its lowest level since February 2024 and down 17% since August 3, and ether dropped 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so  —  Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
Washington Post:
In a letter, the secretaries of state from PA, WA, MI, NM, and MN ask Elon Musk to change X's AI assistant Grok to stop it from spreading false election info  —  Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk's X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states.  She hasn't.
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A look at some of Apple's pre-prompt instructions for Apple Intelligence, including “do not hallucinate” for a text generation feature  —  Apple's latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Elon Musk revives his OpenAI lawsuit, filing a complaint in California to allege that OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman breached OpenAI's founding contract  —  The Tesla chief executive has renewed claims that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good.
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
In a fifth dev beta for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15, Safari gets Distraction Control, which lets users block distracting elements on the page like pop-ups  —  You'll get to choose which page element to block on a site, as long as it doesn't change.  —  Ahead of the full release of iOS 18 …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Memo from Microsoft's chief people officer: “everyone at Microsoft” now has “security” as a “Core Priority”, used in performance reviews  —  Microsoft will elevate security to the status of “core priority” for all employees as part of the process of focusing …
More: The Verge, OSnews, and Thurrott
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says it's changing the format of its DevDay conference this fall to a series of on-the-road developer sessions and GPT-5 will not be announced during it  —  Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Booking CEO Glenn Fogel on the company's Booking.com, OpenTable, Kayak, Priceline, and Agoda brands, using AI to book trips, hotels, and more  —  The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.
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Reuters:
Software consultancy Thoughtworks to be taken private by PE firm Apax Partners for ~$1.75B; TWKS jumps 26%+ but is still far below its 2021 IPO price  —  Thoughtworks (TWKS.O) on Monday agreed to be taken private by Apax Partners in a deal worth about $1.75 billion, the technology consultancy firm said …
More: SiliconANGLE
Bloomberg:
Sources: Black Sesame, which designs chips for self-driving systems, priced its Hong Kong IPO at the low end of its marketed range, raising $133M  —  - AI chipmaker raises $133 million at low end of price band  — Listing marks second debut under city's specialist tech regime
Bloomberg:
CrowdStrike says Delta CEO Ed Bastian failed to respond to an assistance offer from CEO George Kurtz; CrowdStrike hopes Delta will “agree to work cooperatively”  —  The allegation, in a letter Sunday from attorneys for the technology firm, builds upon CrowdStrike's claim last week …

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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
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Lionel Laurent / Bloomberg:
The architect of the initial European Commission proposal behind the EU AI Act says its reach ended up being too broad and it may entrench big US tech companies
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Earlier Picks

Michael Moritz / Financial Times:
Silicon Valley's Trump supporters are making the same mistake as all powerful people who back authoritarians: they can't control him, and he won't keep promises
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised a $1B early-stage fund and a $4B late-stage fund, its largest-ever pair, after backing OpenAI in 2023
Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg:
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Bart Meijer / Reuters:
The European Commission says TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw and not replace TikTok Lite's “Task and Reward Programme” in the EU to comply with the DSA
Rachael Levy / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working
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